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===Inclusion of cold warriors and nationalists=== | ===Inclusion of cold warriors and nationalists=== | ||
China had to make some realpolitical concessions. The military-industrial complex with its four pillars - the war industry, the military, the politicians and the think tanks - have created an own nationalism-flavored ecosystem ensuring many jobs in many states, especially in those of Superpowers. The interconnection makes it difficult to dissolve the MIC. Plans for a spontaneous dissolving would have caused mass unemployment and political and ideological resistance. A closing of this complex could only happen over several decades. Most people involved were guaranteed to continue serving their nation's security. It was an "inclusion" of cold warriors and hardliners of old nationalism. A special problem was the removal of nuclear weapons. The cold warriors were hardly willing to give these away as the MIC in other states continued as well. They argued that the weapons would be an reinsurance until WCG would have truly matured. So under the surface of WCG the silent threat of nuclear deterrence still exists. [[#BGI|BGI]] <!--(Battle Groups International?)--> was tolerated to absorb old military to also mitigate the influence of old nationalism in MIC. | China had to make some realpolitical concessions. The military-industrial complex with its four pillars - the war industry, the military, the politicians and the think tanks - have created an own nationalism-flavored ecosystem ensuring many jobs in many states, especially in those of Superpowers. The interconnection makes it difficult to dissolve the MIC. Plans for a spontaneous dissolving would have caused mass unemployment and political and ideological resistance. A closing of this complex could only happen over several decades. Most people involved were guaranteed to continue serving their nation's security. It was an "inclusion" of cold warriors and hardliners of old nationalism. A special problem was the removal of nuclear weapons. The cold warriors were hardly willing to give these away as the MIC in other states continued as well. They argued that the weapons would be an reinsurance until WCG would have truly matured. So under the surface of WCG the silent threat of nuclear deterrence still exists. [[#BGI|BGI]] <!--(Battle Groups International?)--> was tolerated to absorb old military to also mitigate the influence of old nationalism in MIC. | ||
===Demilitarization: Because weapons are a dead end=== | |||
The US-American MIC cannot simply be made disappear. The mentality for permanent armament has been fortified by a militarized history and by NRA lobbyism. Owning weapons has become part of America's cultural DNA. The people needed the economic crash to realize that in the end they cannot eat weapons. The spending on private weapons and state-owned war machines took away from their own pockets and betrayed them of development opportunities. (Eisenhower) | |||
China exhausted USA in a new arms race. Seeing them and world economy almost breaking down China's leading thinker Feng realized as well that - no matter whether foreign contractors were involved - the war industry just burns money in a global scale. Money that the ordinary people would badly need in the future. | |||
With the installment of WCG smaller states were encouraged to very soon give up their military so that they could concentrate on economy and welfare. Military of old Superpowers were united into the WCG freedom forces. Military enforced geopolitics were meant to stop existing. Proxy wars were no longer tolerated. A future-proof economy was new holy cow. | |||
===Global threats=== | ===Global threats=== | ||