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Another thing to consider - if you brain drain a country - who will pick up the pieces when a regime falls?

You want someone able to keep things organized when the state cracks.



That's important, but it is also not the problem we have today. Right now what we have is an out-of-control nuclear weapons wielding/threatening kleptocracy that murders many thousands of people every month. Picking up the pieces is the next problem and the sooner we have that problem the better. It is definitely worthwhile to point at this problem because to a large extent that's how we ended up with this mess in the first place, but it is not the immediate one and arguably an easier one to solve than the one that we have now, especially given lessons learned.


In the event of regime change, going back will absolutely be a non-issue. Hell, some of us are preparing for it right now [0].

[0] https://firstflight.today/




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