There are bad things happening in the world, conflicts, ecological disasters, economic upheavels, and political upheavals. It's easy to look at these bad things and assume things are much worse than they are. Nobody wants there to be a world war 3.
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When Trump was elected again I spent about 3 weeks living with an existential dread I've never in my life felt before.
Whenever it happens, it is coming.
1 to 2 years no. Next decade sure. The super powers are isolating themselves as their economies become less entwined I expect something to happen.
WW3 began in 2022
Maybe next decade, doubt it will be the next 2 years.
I assume the time span was because of a certain penis potato. Sorry, I mean dictator.
You are probably overexaggerating.
There are increased conflicts over the world but no signs of a world war.
First there are no willing candidates for it. Not even Russia which is engaged in a war is willing to make the push to engage NATO, which is the closest to a world war we would get.
Neither is Iran willing to go into war which was very obvious after their actions when Israel made ample opportunities for them to escalate conflict.
And for China.. well war is bad for business, and China really likes doing business.
However the US with Trump at the helm. π€· Who the fuck knows. Maybe not world war but I am adding military occupation of Panama and Greenland to my bingo just in case.
please tell me that Iβm overexagurating
You're overexaggerating.
this person needs to tell us what about the "current situation" they think is so bad before we can assess how mentally diverse they are
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I don't think so.
Primarily because there's not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.
Also, we've made the experience of the war in the middle east around 2000 where the USA couldn't even occupy a farmer's state for more than a couple years.
I don't think anybody realistically thinks they can take over another (big) country in this time.
Primarily because thereβs not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.
Our history of perpetual war seems to disprove this
Famously the same was said about WWI re the economic benefit.
Could already be going. We didn't name them World War 1 and World War 2 until after they were over
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Nah, there won't be WW3. Instead we get countries sabotaging each other via hacking critical infrastructure, proxy wars, propaganda, trade wars.
I doubt there will ever be a direct "hot war" between the top five nuclear powers ever again.
WW3 is not what's gonna kill people, climate change is more likely gonna be humanity's downfall.
No thanks. Appreciate the offer though, very kind of you.
...i think the early stages will be fuzzy over the next four years but the `states will be fully engaged within six...
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