Is it still possible for a private company to conquer an

>>1505744
>BEIC
>""""""private company"""""""
Merchantilism can.

Nowadays they can't. PMCs are glorified security guards.

I'm pretty sure Coca Cola and Exxon could gobble up a reasonable amount of Africa if we let them.

Dutch East India Company was way better fking british faggot

>>1505860
>loses to kerala
no.

>>1505744
>Is it still possible for a private company to conquer an entire country?
Maybe, but there are too many other greedy corporations getting in on the act.

Poor Halliburton had to share Iraq and Afghanistan with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman...

Not to mention Blackwater and five million other Mom and Pop private security firms made up of US veterans with PTSD and a shitload of Pentagon cash.

Hell no the Military Industrial complex will NOT allow any monopolies on war profiteering.

>>1505758

It makes no sense whatsoever for Coca Cola to do this. Their business is selling Coke everywhere, not running countries.

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>>1505744
Multinationals will be stronger than nations by 2100.

Do drug cartels count?

>>1505894

Think about it. If Coca Cola where to conquer say the Congo, they would control the entire Congolese market for fizzy drinks plus they would have a fertile tropical country to cultivate their ingredients.

>>1505897

How so? The nation has a military and can use it to collect taxes and assert control over multinationals.

>>1505897
nah

the multinational model is Anglosaxon mainly.

They can't take over China because to even do business there they have to set up a Chinese company and renew the contract with the Chinese every few years. Same goes with India and most of the emerging countries.

Multinationals these days aren't able to grow anymore in their core markets and rely almost esclusively on Mergers and Acquisitions, lobbying to have have favourable laws and constant need for slave labor force to survive..
They are basically terminal and frankly it's better that way.
Globalism driven by multinational is going to have a setback similar to that of the period between WW1 and 2.

>>1505918

But pretty much everyone in Congo is already drinking coke? Without the extra of hassle of running the country. Its actually pretty amazing how Coca-Cola can manage to sell coke in the most backwater jungle places in Africa. Unless they would also enslave the Congolese, I don't see the point.

>>1505918
>>1505894


At least historically, the way that the EIC and similar entities got started with their military adventurism was to stop mercantilist lockout.

You want to sell X. Some Rajah has banned white foreign devils from selling in his territory. You stage a coup and help his nephew, who sees things your way, depose him. But of course, now the nephew needs a base of support, so you're there to help, and in turn, make sure he doesn't revert to his predecessor's policies.

You just don't have the same political/economic climate anymore. If some tinpot dictator bans Coca-Cola, it's almost certainly more of a rational action to appeal to other governments to put pressure on him, rather than try to put pressure on him directly.

China and the PRC are already this.

>>1505934

Slavery in modern times is an economically bad choice, since you just can have machines do the dirty work. Also you would most likely get deposed by UN/Murican troops for legalizing slavery.

>>1505934
t. Leopold

>>1505946

Nah you can't have machines ride a shitty truck with Coca-cola on the muddy road to Mbumfuknowere, while also getting the broken axle on the truck replaced by a by the road welder. You can't have a machine run the Coca-cola and fried dog shop he's delivering to.

But it is indeed a lot more efficient to have this done by people earning their own profits, than by slaves.

>>1505941
Woops, I meant Saudi Arabia and the PRC.

>>1505744
Strictly speaking, yes. I doubt it would take more than a couple hundred millions to conquer San Marino or Liechtenstein. Big corps can afford to waste that much easy.
In practice, no because of the international reaction.

>>1505860
Meme. The Dutch company whilst more efficient was by no means as powerful as the british one.