Researchers at Yale University have found that the more allies a country has, the less power it has. The authors say the findings have potential implications for current events.
The scientists published their results in the July issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), a joint publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
The scientists developed a simple, yet sophisticated, computer game to examine relationships between countries and the resulting strategic environments."We have developed a power allocation game to study countries' strategic interactions in a complex environment," said Yuke Li from Yale University. Dr. Li and Prof. A. Stephen Morse, the Dudley Professor of distributed control and adaptive control in electrical engineering at Yale University, used the game to ask if having more allies in a networked, strategic environment will always be beneficial to a country in terms of power allocation outcomes. "The answer is, surprisingly, no. This is especially so for a country without sufficient power to mediate between the conflicts among its potential allies."
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-allies-decrease-country-power.html
[Abstract]: The power allocation game on a network: a paradox
At the rate at which the current POTUS is alienating allies, the USA will become even more powerful, as per the above article.
(Score: 1) by Captival on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:46AM (10 children)
That's either insightful genius or total nonsense. Leaning towards the latter here.
If more power is actually really less power, then real more power is less is more is less is more. Therefore the opposite is true!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)
You have begun the path of understanding, my young Jedi! Do not try to bend the spoon, that is impossible. Only realize the truth, there is no Trump. Also, realpolitikers tend to exhibit two-dimensional win-lose thinking, and think they are Ricardo Montalban. So the only thing to do is take off and nuke them from orbit.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @05:31AM (1 child)
Aren't "win-lose" two opposite directions of a single dimension?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:28AM
Khaaaaaaaaannnn!!!!!!! Khaaaaaaaaaaaann!!!!!!1!
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:59AM (1 child)
Nothing is everything.
The tighter your grip the more slips through your fingers.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:13AM
Depends on what you are gripping really. If I grip too tightly it stops slipping at all. And it hurts.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Mykl on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:10AM (1 child)
USA: GDP $19.39 trillion, 326m people. Permanent member of UN Security Council, member of G7, G20, OECD, NATO, ANZUS
North Korea: GDP $25 billion (0.12% of USA), 25m people. Friends with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China. Everyone else hates them.
Kim Jong Un and the Trumpinator met as equals recently. I think there's something to this.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:50AM
> Kim Jong Un and the Trumpinator met as equals recently. I think there's something to this.
Note: there's a difference between "US and NK are equals" and "Kim Jong-Un and the Trumpeteer are equals".
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:31AM (2 children)
Doubleplusgoodful.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 27 2018, @07:42PM (1 child)
Fido! You Cretan!
(Score: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday June 30 2018, @09:43AM
Not even close. I'm more one of the Histri (or, as you would know us, Ιστρών έθνος - fighting against unfair copyright legislation for two millenia).
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.