What you’re describing is the current state of the world
Yes and no.
Yes in that international relations are considered to operate on a standard of ‘anarchy’ in that sense.
No insofar as human society has developed numerous divisions and organizations of power to prevent “Gun vs. Gun” being the main determinator of results in almost all domestic situations.
Personally, I’m not too thrilled about the idea of “States, but we restart everyone at city-state level for that high-grade endemic warfare”
Anarchist confederations make much more sense, but they run into the question of what the fundamental difference between them and a state is.
Yes and no.
Yes in that international relations are considered to operate on a standard of ‘anarchy’ in that sense.
No insofar as human society has developed numerous divisions and organizations of power to prevent “Gun vs. Gun” being the main determinator of results in almost all domestic situations.
Personally, I’m not too thrilled about the idea of “States, but we restart everyone at city-state level for that high-grade endemic warfare”
Anarchist confederations make much more sense, but they run into the question of what the fundamental difference between them and a state is.