I'd like to see that on a global TLD. If you mean that any arbitrary country can seize a TLD belonging to that country, then yeah I guess you are right. You can always get a distributed TLD but then you have the problem of them not being resolvable unless the PC you are at is correctly configured.

What's a global TLD?

Sorry, I should say international non-US tld, or in other words, a TLD not under the control of the US.

US controls root/'.' via ICANN and can theoretically seize anything under the DNS system

Only reason they don't for gTLDs is because of the political fallout