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@paolobacigalupi I think it’s one of the few genuinely historically unique / unprecedented situations: a former empire, now with substantially reduced economic / military / technical / political power — and yet simultaneously the ability to instantaneously destroy the world as we know it.Permalink On twitter.com
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@paolobacigalupi It’s like they’re capable at either end of the power spectrum: they can grind down small neighbors through regional wars of attrition — and they can incinerate modern civilization. Just nothing in between.On twitter.com