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Northwest · M
We've been a misstep away from WWIII since 1950.
People forget that we've been in armed conflicts one way or another, involving China, Russia and North Korea (and Soviet Union) and various countries in the Middle East and Africa, since around the end of WWII, kicking steam since the mid 1950s.
People forget that we've been in armed conflicts one way or another, involving China, Russia and North Korea (and Soviet Union) and various countries in the Middle East and Africa, since around the end of WWII, kicking steam since the mid 1950s.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@Northwest Yep. Those that claim we are closer than any time since 1950 seem to have a poor grasp on history.
Take the Israel conflict. The current one. Not the one 4 years ago, or the one 4 years before that, or the one 4 years before that....
Those issues/wars have been nearly constant as long as I have been alive. And I am 50.
Russia/Ukraine - how is this different than the SE Asia conflicts? Because it is in Europe?
Take the Israel conflict. The current one. Not the one 4 years ago, or the one 4 years before that, or the one 4 years before that....
Those issues/wars have been nearly constant as long as I have been alive. And I am 50.
Russia/Ukraine - how is this different than the SE Asia conflicts? Because it is in Europe?
Northwest · M
@trollslayer
Not all that different. Same for the armed conflicts between Israel and its neighbors, who were part of the Soviet "universe". The US mobilized its strategic forces during the 1973 war.
Not saying this is normal, but as long as we have multiple parties gunning to wrestle supremacy away from the US, we will never have peace.
Today, it's China trying to do that. Putin is Xi's lapdog. He's begging Iran's Mullahs for rockets, so they sent him rockets without the launchers.
An actual solution would be for Harris to get together with Xi and agree that a zero-sum solution is in no one's interest, but that will only work if Xi decides to stop being a dictator and that's not going to happen. Putin will do whatever Xi decides.
Russia/Ukraine - how is this different than the SE Asia conflicts? Because it is in Europe?
Not all that different. Same for the armed conflicts between Israel and its neighbors, who were part of the Soviet "universe". The US mobilized its strategic forces during the 1973 war.
Not saying this is normal, but as long as we have multiple parties gunning to wrestle supremacy away from the US, we will never have peace.
Today, it's China trying to do that. Putin is Xi's lapdog. He's begging Iran's Mullahs for rockets, so they sent him rockets without the launchers.
An actual solution would be for Harris to get together with Xi and agree that a zero-sum solution is in no one's interest, but that will only work if Xi decides to stop being a dictator and that's not going to happen. Putin will do whatever Xi decides.