Post #1626205
2026-03-22 16:46 UTC
@isaackuo @cstross It takes a minimum economy to maintain a regime. It needs radios and the ability to manufacture small arms ammunition and keep records. If you crash an economy hard enough and external support isn't available (no sufficient transport network over those mountain passes before they get mined), it stops being able to have a government.
It's not even a little bit hard to imagine this administration deciding that's the plan.
Much better if they don't, but.
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@isaackuo@spacey.space 2026-03-22 16:51
@graydon @cstross Okay, I understand that as a theory, but I don't see how that would work in practice. It's hard to imagine being bombed back into the Stone Age more than the Taliban, and ... well, we saw how that worked out. And it's not like the Taliban was the darling of external helping superpowers or anything. And the terrain was - oops - yeah, similar to much of Iran. And the region - oh yeah, right next door.