This analysis connects a key moment in Aliens — the decision to “nuke the colony to save it” — with Mark Carney’s Davos speech on the rupture of the global order. It explores how preventive violence, emergency thinking, and the promise of decisive action often mask a deeper problem: the willingness to destroy institutions, places, or people in order to preserve an abstract idea of stability. From science fiction to geopolitics, the text shows how the fantasy of control replaces judgment — and why that logic ultimately produces more chaos, not less.

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Aliens. Directed by James Cameron. Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox, 1986.

Alien and Philosophy. Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Mark Hall, and Brandon Kendhammer. Chicago: Open Court, 2010.
 – See especially: “Nuking the Colony to Save It: Colonial Marines and Just Wars.”

Mark Carney. “Special Address at the World Economic Forum.” Davos, January 2026.

Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. 5th ed. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Arendt, Hannah. On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.

Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015.