GoonSquad wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
didn't we already do this thread like last week?
I think no. "world war" implies that at least most of the major world powers will be involved, and i think that modern communication makes it much harder to convince a preponderance of russians that all americans want to destroy them or whatever.
They wouldn't have to convince their people. They could just launch the nukes. And I don't think it's really changed that much; the Cold War only just ended in the 1990s. Sure there was no Internet, but the world in say, the 1960s, was pretty modern and quite globalized already. It wasn't the stone age.
W O R D!
People need to get a clue. Communism in Russia and China has simply been replaced by thugocracy. In most ways these countries are more dangerous now because they are not hobbled by impractical economics.
Americans are the only ones who think the cold war is over. Russia and China are both very ambitious powers and the US is still their only credible rival.
I think proxy wars are more likely than direct conflict but anything could happen.
I also would not rule out a limited nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel or Pakistan and India or even a [nuclear] terrorist event of some sort in the next few years.
if a nuclear terrorist event happened that alone could spark a nuclear war depending on the time, place, and political situation at the moment
MW3 was right in saying all it takes is the will of one man, you may think since its a game it has no credibility but in order for it to make any sense they needed to have done their homework and in todays political situation it wouldnt take much to start a war, we have fought over much less.
personally i see our presence in the Middle East as a modern day crusade, the Christian Right(American Majority for now anyway) against Islam. thats how it seems to me. its a religicide of Islam, even on American soil we have major Islamophobia to the point of outright violence(and if you look at most cases, the Christian leaders(i think mainly Catholic and Baptist but i can't remember off the top of my head) is ALMOST always involved or leading it in most cases
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05 Dec 2011, 9:44 am
