Guys, what do you think of all the crap happening in this world? Why can't everyone join hands and make earth a better place?
Unfortunately those in power are there for reasons, mostly that they are rich enough and unethical enough they don't care to make the world a better place for anyone but themselves.
Are are nearing WW-III?
No.
We attacked Iran and started this ludicrous war. Wouldn't be surprised if they retaliated on our soil.
I don't support any, but everything that's going on makes me nervous. What's going to happen with our investments? We all work hard and save every penny for self and loved ones. Let's see how it unfolds
I suppose if you guys attack enough countries it could be a world war.... But it would be the world vs you so not like the OG ones.
Eh, war is one of humanities favorite recreational activities. Take a good look at history and you'll see that there's almost always at least one war being fought somewhere in the world. Power, territory, influence, control, resources, all the usual reasons for it.
I don't happen to think that we're headed for WWIII, but we're going to have social media and news outlets reporting every single conflict to us every day, which makes it seem more immediate to many. What I do think we're going to see alot more of is mob rule type violence, like what's going on in France right now.
Why can't everyone join hands and make earth a better place?
@Explorethe "why" is because humanity is a species of wild animal that happens to know what technology is
All I had was one vote to give.
The closest we were to WW3 would be the Cold War with our adversary The Soviet Union (currently Russia) being similar or even equal in military strength to us. If tensions weren't enough to set off World War 3, I doubt it would happen anytime soon.
As novel as an idea Peace is, human nature unfortunately has proven that it is a pipe dream. All we can hope for is us as a collective not completely ravage the Earth before the impending Alien Invasion of 2633.
I don’t mean to be the contrarian here but I do think we are at higher risk now than during the Cold War. I say that as someone who personally remembers the nuclear attack “drop and cover” drills taught in elementary school in the 1970s.
The dark comedy movie, “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” was based on a very serious and plausible book called “Red Alert”. The premise of the book was a rogue base commander deciding to nuke Russia.
Replace “rogue base commander” with “automated response” and that is fairly close to where we are today.
In 1983, a Soviet missile detection system reported the launch of 5 ICBMs. Stanislav Petrov, the operator on duty at the time, decided not to report it as a launch, and instead logged it as a malfunction. I believe his reasoning was that if the US were to launch a strike, they would launch more than 5 missiles. When they investigated, they found that the newly-deployed system had detected reflected sunlight.
Had he simply done his duty and reported the detected launch, there's a reasonable chance that would have started World War 3. It's also possible his superiors would have needed more information before launching a counterstrike. But the short of it is that WW3 was averted simply by having humans in the mix.
Nowadays we're likely to put WOPR-GPT in charge of the missile systems and assume it will make no mistakes.
I don’t know if a world war three is coming anytime soon. Since the beginning of human history, there has been war and violence. It’s just human nature unfortunately. So I’m in acceptance with it all. If I get hit with a bomb, I just pray I die instantly. All we have power over in our day to day life is consuming less resources so they urge to fight over them is lighter.
There's one country in particular that's contributing by far disproportionately to this possibility and it's a country that can't be reasoned with that I ultimately don't see doing the right thing.
I am of course talking about Switzerland.
Yes, but will the Swiss army come at us with knives, scissors, or corkscrews?
I think it's safe to say that WWIII isn't happening anytime soon.. but if it did, I can't imagine it would venture very far out of Europe!
@TheCheshireCat I don't know about you, but I wasn't thinking it would originate in Europe!
If we are i would guess ukraine invasion would have kicked that off. I'm sure if russia overthrown the Ukrainian government it would have emboldened China on Taiwan and took off from there..
Trump go against his buddy Putin?? Ha
I don't care to discuss it
.. The ukraine war has many counties involved ,China, nk, usa, england .. its a testing ground for new warfare techniques... I'm stunned media doesnt cover it gotta go to isw to get much.
The world war is going, has been going, will keep going. Just because the major countries aren't directly attacking each other doesn't mean we're not at war with one another. Bankrolling and arming someone else's conflict isn't even a new tactic. But just like we don't stand in rows and shoot muskets at each other anymore, the powers that be don't fight directly either. Nukes changed all that. If the big dogs go at each other we all lose. Immediately.
So war just has a new look. Proxy wars. Quiet trade and arms deals with countries that pummel each other while the fat cats reap big rewards and our soldiers still get sent off to die.
Not closer now, than we were pre Ukraine invasion, post 9/11 or any recent events. Poland, Norway, Finland and others may have upped defense, drills, spending, training, and everything else, there's more money in conflicts than all out war. Russia can keep pushing issues with EU and Ukraine, China with Taiwan, US with the middle east. Keep it small, keeps the industrial military complex busy, the circular economy at the top spinning.
As with the animal kingdom, there will always be alphas. Always someone who needs to "show off".
Mauve nailed it
Why can't we all just get along?
I think the biggest reason we all can't get along is that we give away our power to the tiny fraction of humanity that wants to kill and destroy.
Just look at it. Poots said kill and destroy and everyone said yes. The orange president said kill and destroy and everyone said yes.
If people didn't say yes and give their power to the scum of humanity we would be much better off.
Imagine a world where people would say no, I am not doing that. It seems too hard for humans to do that though, as demonstrated by our entire history.
More women should be in power, imo.
Would you all consider it engrained in our nature to be this way?
@CuddlesWithCat TOTALLY agree with you there. The data on "matriarchal" societies is pretty compelling.
Unless you are kim Jong uns sister and come into power wich is a definite possibility in the future.
No unless lol. The facts are clear.
https://www.matrihub.com/en/post/the-deep-structure-of-matriarchal-society-findings-of-modern-matriarchal-studies
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