Idea of the Day

Maybe it’s because I played an absurd amount of Civilization in high school, but I have a soft spot for the idea of border realignment.  I don’t want to see wars of conquest, but I see a certain justice in rewarding countries that succeed economically by giving them sovereignty over countries that fail.  So I liked this suggestion that Brazil annex Portugal (gated, more here), even if seems even more implausible than my earlier policy suggestion.