People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
I'm on the side that WW3 is currently happening, it's just different than previous international conflicts. It's still a hot war, involving intense violent conflicts over resources through proxies, mercenaries, organized crime, and coups. The two primary sides in the conflict are: loosely sympathetic anti-imperialist elements and nations, and more tightly organized Anglo-American imperialist nations and capitalists. The anti-imperialist side is incredibly loose, since it's more diversely and comprised of working classes, national bourgeoisie (Russia), theocracies, and semi-feudal societies. The imperialists are much more easily and tightly defined, since they decide what the formal rules are for international conflict.
My pessimistic outlook is that we could be living in the complete collapse of all civilization. Surviving future historians 1000 years from now might have a framework where World War 1 to the upcoming collapse are seen as a single running event instigated by the boundaries of empire hitting their limit.
Optimistic outlook says that the anglo-American imperial dominance is on the way out and we're living in the dying embers just before a wave of positive changes.
oh god, I wish