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Re:Tesla Master Plan Part 3 by throw0101c on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:25PM (#35463361)
> Transitioning to renewable regional and local energy generation and storage will reduce political risk to humanity dramatically by enabling the decoupling of geopolitics from oil.

We had geopolitics before oil. Just ask the Athenians and Spartans or Romans and Carthaginians. The Mongols didn't go running around Eurasia for oil, and neither did Napoleon around Europe.

Oil may be less thing, but there are others. Per Thucydides, three fundamental motives are: fear, honour, interest.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_W...

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Re:Tesla Master Plan Part 3 by enslavedrobot on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:47PM (#35463487)
Fear of getting invaded over your resources yes.

Energy is the most valuable resource today. If it is no longer concentrated regionally then the driving force for war is greatly reduced.

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