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Not really, more like half a confederation. Well but then again 3-4 generations will be born over that 100 years. The difference we are talking about here is between, say, losing 20% of highly talented people per generation and losing 60% of highly talented people per generation. Obviously the...

EU still is just an organization of sovereign states. It's not an unlikely possibility that if the craziest eurocrats get their wish and make it into a single, central state, it will work like crap. But if it doesn't go too fast some regeneration is possible. If x amount of highly talented...

And the comparison to Austro-Hungary is exactly why it's not much richer. Due to that disunity it has to worry about rebellions and other political schisms too much to focus on getting richer. The more countries do it the deeper and more through the brain drain. What good are technologies when...

But India is struggling so badly with developing because for all practical purposes it already is an empire, the place has 21 official languages FFS, and slightly less than half consider Hindi their first language. That's the thing, it won't. The irony here is that if such a thing becomes...

Seems like a lot of virtue signalling is involved in the answers. A lot of people don't have the guts to say no before the interviewer or to doubt their own status as do gooders, but at the same time the rational side of their brains screams that it's a bad idea.

If anything its a protection badly outdated by modern technology. A CCP official's wife can fly in to USA few weeks before birth, leave few weeks after, and 30 years later the CCP princeling can come to USA as a full natural born citizen. Loyal? Unlikely. There should be more protections than that.