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We moved from the Red Sea Tangle to the future.

The transformation of sovereign states to, we have categories, failed state, rogue state.

However, Gregory and his colleagues over the years have proposed a new way of understanding states.

That is the word kratoside.

And accompanying kratoside, in other words,

the death of a state, is kratogenesis,

the birth of a state.

Gregory, this is thinking about the future

and the wars that are underway right now.

In Europe, that would be Ukraine.

In the Middle East, that would be Gaza and in the east of the supercontinent

Eurasia there is the constant threat repeated again at New Year's by

Chijinping of absorbing, conquering, breaking Taiwan.

And that's enough.

Kratoside is at one point looks like a threat but is it an evolutionary step in sovereign states after all

Yugoslavia no longer exists is that an example of kratoside in the future for other states?

Well yes I mean, it takes various forms.

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