Sry for being off topic -
@Alex.
hmm i think i understand what you mean, but this is still crap especially today (
today, that is!)
People hoarding and assisting each other as tribes or whatever in
former times to reach a goal above individual laziness or against other bullies was all fine and nice, however there is a point in science and let's say enlightenment where such notions should reach a higher level, and be the base for the whole world population to feel and act as as one against a hostile universe, and work together.
Putin may not be the badest leader Russia had, but his thoughts and mind are very yesterday. There are other less backwards examples of course, which as well do not fit into modern times, any more.
Nations are the problem. As long as there is the idea of some people/nation/etnic blahblahblah being better/more valuable/more-deserving, and (ab)using this feeling to diminish others, there will be war.
As Reagan rightly said, people do not wage wars. Governments [=nations] do.
We are living on borrowed time, not only icbm-wise. Any smaller to middle asteroid can ruin the earth's ecosphere in a minute, and mankind will not survive unless we have spread, and be able to live elsewhere.
Despite our gas giants swallowing most of those snowballs, there will be 'the one', one day. We have not much time - think of it.
There is no point in one Serbia, a big Germany or a super power USA. As is no sense in a dominating China, or Russia.
I am all for internationalism, international science, and to hell with national administrations and kachos, if they hinder science and improving knowledge.
