Some of the problems which 'weak' states, such as the USA, and their lesser principalities and regions, face, (have always faced, in historically different ways), are that, because of their weaknesses and fragmentation, stronger (and now modern) 'developmental' states and their MNCs and cartels, or other merely rational protectionist states, our former MNCs and others, and transnational resources cartels and others, NGOs, fundamentalists networks, and other entities, each with substantial, but often narrow and adverse, economic and political power, take advantage of, Balkanize, overrun, or attack, weak states, and weak areas, for their several narrow economic and/or political reasons.
I can give many examples, but I want those out there, to think of some for yourselves.
I will give a discographic reference or two, for the art and music lovers out there. Think, first, of the themes, and music, from High Noon.
(For the deep thinkers, especially those who have read a little Thurston Macaire, go back especially to It's A Wonderful Life, not a "comedy', when all is said and done.)
For a slightly later 'generation', for those who attend to those things, I cannot improve, musically or thematically, on For A Few Dollars More.
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