Canada and Ireland simultaneously decided to introduce new categories of immigration to attract soldiers to their armies. Given that neither country has any plans to engage in warfare, this is as clear a gesture as can be of repudiating the nation-state.
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Actually Kid that is not unusual: Americans joined Canada during WW2, Canadians joined the USA in Vietnam; both joined Israel in 1948.
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They joined under their own flag, not as aspiring immigrants.
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Actually, many were fighting for a cause, and they were not always on the winning side.
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Sorry, I was busy watching the hockey game ;-D
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“neither country has any plans to engage in warfare”
I’d interpret the recruiting as a sign that they are.
Maybe they foresee going to war against the internal population.
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“foresee going to war against the internal population”
The obvious explanation…
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I’d say some of it is due to the modern revolution in transportation and communications which has allowed the political and business elites of western countries to feel part of a shared transnational culture. The other main factor might just be demographics – the native population is just not having enough children to fill out the professions, even basic ones like police and army. If the elite were still strongly identified with their own nation to the exclusion of others, they would try to deal with these changes without immigration. But for them, a nation is just one more brand competing in the global marketplace.
There is obviously now a huge counter-movement across the West (one more example, the long-standing center-right opposition in Australia recently collapsed in popularity, replaced by the populist party One Nation), and *outside* the West there is much less willingness to invite in foreigners, even in countries (Japan, South Korea) where there’s a similar trend towards depopulation.
If it weren’t for AI, the human race might spend decades working out a new balance between these movements. But AI means that all this is just a game of musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The liberal techno-oligarchs might believe in the fungibility of human beings, the nationalist ones might believe in their particular civilizational tradition, but unless there is a serious movement to stop AI, we’re headed for a world in which human nations of any description, are at best wilderness preserves in an interplanetary cmeta-ivilization run by cyborgs and posthumans.
Sorry for dragging this back to a personal idee fixe but this is how I see it!
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