I mean, if you want a great example, Genghis Khan killed his half brother at 8 years old in order to “secure his family position” then went on to lose a bunch of battles, then win a bunch of wars and murder his way to the top of an empire.

If you don’t think that’s an example of strongest = leader, I don’t know what to tell you.

Modern cartel leaders are very similar in most cases, they’ve schemed, battled, and murdered their way to the top.

In wolves it’s fake, in humans it’s quite accurate.

It still exists today so don’t tell me it was never a case of the strongest = leader. Drug cartels are effectively states, and ruled by extreme violence (even internally)

Even if your argument were accurate, that would be considered a state. A group of people agreeing on rules together is a state.

Like I said, with few enough people and it could be considered “not a state” but there isn’t any realistic way to have a stateless society of even tens of thousands of people, let alone the millions and billions of people that exist these days.

States did exist, just because it was the strongest man in the tribe declaring the rules arbitrarily didn’t make it not a state.

By looking at the communities listing

Stop looking through all, subscription exists for a reason.

This is why I don’t think it will ever happen.

US Miliary personnel have worked hand in hand with the Canadians half a century doing everything from joint ops to sharing bases. I think a lot of them would simply refuse to invade Canada without congress first declaring an official war, and congress wouldn’t do that because it would be horrifically unpopular with the US populace.

It wouldn’t.

Stateless societies don’t work, that’s why despite thousands of years of recorded history, we don’t have any record of one ever succeeding.

Even just having a village elder who decides disputes is a form of state. Hell, having parents who decide the rules in a family is a form of state.

Broccoli is great raw, why cook it?

This is the single best answer if it needs to be cooked.

Both a lot of information, and not a lot of information travels through those cables.

It’s going to depend a lot on where you live.

If you’re in North America, the vast majority of the services and websites you access will be hosted on the continent and will continue working just fine. Webpages for European companies may become inaccessible.

If you’re in Australia, some local stuff will continue working, but a lot more things will die.

Services like Netflix almost always have local servers, it’s not financially reasonable to push that much video between continents on a per user basis. They just use those links to sync their various servers as new content is released.

Most phone calls to foreign countries will fail. Almost all of it passes through the internet cables these days, rather than using dedicated phone lines undersea.

As George Carlin once said, imagine the average American, then realize half of them are stupider than that.