And then we have the example worse than even Russia -- China taking over the natural resources close to them. (Well, hopefully <i>just</i> in countries close to them.)<p>If Yellowstone had a giant outbreak tomorrow and made USA busy with internal affairs for a few generations, this would almost certainly be much more common, quickly.<p>Chomsky might argue that there is not a big difference between democracies and dictatorships (at least -- he seems to criticize democracies a few orders of magnitude more than the dictators?) -- but the democratic peace theory don&#x27;t agree.