KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoIt is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?thebulletin.orgexternal-linkmessage-square59linkfedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down10
arrow-up1200arrow-down1external-linkIt is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?thebulletin.orgKingPorkChop@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square59linkfedilink
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoGlobal war between who? Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoUS also proved itself a paper tiger, it’ll be a way between senile geriatrics trying to feel relevant
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”. Tibet on the other hand…
minus-squaresunbeam60@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoMy worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with. My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.
Global war between who?
Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.
US also proved itself a paper tiger,
it’ll be a way between senile geriatrics trying to feel relevant
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I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.
Tibet on the other hand…
My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.
My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.