1.Israel stupidly keeps attacking everyone and US weapons supply runs dry. They get destroyed by their victims retaliation.

2.China actually decides to do something.

3.Russia does that Simpsons bit where robot Lenin breaks out of his grave. But says "Haha joke!" And continues being shitty and capitalist.

4.Ukraine does something stupid and Nazi-coded to get attention from US senpai.

5.The US accidentally nukes itself.

  • milk_thief [it/its]
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    1 hour ago
    1. Land War in Asia
    2. "tactical nukes are fine, bruh" - they are not fine
    3. US goes down before Israel does
    4. We get a really dumb attempt at federating two countries, it works just well enough to not fall apart
    5. Ukraine goes down just before US does
    6. Humanity and capitalism survive, this is not dumb enough for our final round yet
  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    I'm hoping no one bothers to nuke Australia much, mostly.

    That's all I got, let's On the Beach this shit. "This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with several bangs and a fart noise"

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      3 hours ago

      Scott Morrison flees to the outback to try and save his own ass, accidentally runs into the Pine Gap perimeter and gets domed by a trigger happy seppo security guard.

      He ascends to Hillsong purgatory, which I believe is a 24/7 never ending Australian Idol season, he's stuck in the live audience and the exits are locked.

      • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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        3 hours ago

        24/7 never ending Australian Idol season, he’s stuck in the live audience and the exits are locked.

        That's just wrong! He should get eight hours of sleep a night and one hour exercise a day to prolong the amount of days of 24/7 Australian Idol he suffers.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    4 hours ago

    I'm going 1.

    They're going to abandon Ukraine but Azov will escalate as insurgents and maybe abroad.

    Zionists will overextend their fronts and suffer losses that the US won't be prepared or able to turn around. They might resort to nukes on the way down. Probably.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    Ukraine will very slowly lose its war against Russia, and Israel will very slowly lose its war against all of its neighbors. NATO and the US will turn on Israel at the absolute last second so they can pretend they're on the right side of history, which will convince nobody, but all state governments will play along because it's just easier that way. A bunch of seemingly unrelated countries in South America and Africa will adopt anti-US foreign policies, publicly using rhetoric about the US-backed genocide against the Palestinian people, but practically because the US was revealed to be a paper tiger. China will get 90% of the rebuilding contracts and experience a post-war economic boom, but it won't be as notable as the US's WW2 boom because China's economy is already so large and rapidly growing. The US will continue to think of itself as a great world power despite no longer being one, like Britain.

    It's possible another US-backed front opens up, but I actually don't think that's so likely, as a Harris admin would be a continuation of the Biden admin, which is presumably already getting all the wars their backers want, or a Trump admin would fail to put together a war again. If the US does start another war, it'll be even more secondary than Ukraine/Russia, and accelerate the same conclusions as before. Unless the US actually starts a war over Taiwan, which I think is very unlikely because literally nobody benefits, but wars like that have happened before, and if it does then the results will probably be the same as outlined above but faster, but the chances of that going nuclear are high enough that I'm moving to a cave in the mountains if it happens.

    All of this will of course be a stream of horrors for anyone anywhere near the fighting.

  • Grace [she/her]
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    7 hours ago

    One thousand years of Cold War. Nothing ever happens.

    • SadArtemis [she/her]
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      6 hours ago

      Hopefully, the YanKKKee reich will not even live to see its 250th anniversary. They will never get their thousand-year-reich (humanity will literally go extinct before it happens)

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    8 hours ago

    I don't think the US has the logistical capabilities to wage a direct war against an industrial power

    • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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      2 hours ago

      at this point I assume we have also outsourced our weapons manufacturing to china but still expect them to continuing exporting said weapons during any future conflict so that we may use them on them

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      2 hours ago

      cap-think Wait, you're saying mostly-digitized and totally-financialized monopoly capital amounting to pieces of paper saying I own those means of industrial production, which are all outsourced into the hands of and operated by those imperialized and neo-colonized industrial countries who would become belligerent against us in a direct war, ISN'T sufficient enough to win a war?

      capitalist-laugh Those are warring words!! explosion nuke

      M16 you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf explosion

    • SadArtemis [she/her]
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      8 hours ago

      Neither do I- but I definitely think they have the arrogance and malice to try despite it all. All they have left is terrorism (nuclear MAD, supporting literal terrorists or acting as the terrorists themselves, genocide, etc), and they'll try to use it as best as they can, probably.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    7 hours ago

    It's basically a free-space, but America will escalate/start another genocide. Maybe we speedrun Poland to looking like Ukraine is now?

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    8 hours ago

    Would be peak doomerisn if the current Communist Party of Russia managed a miracle and became head of government, only for them to be just as reactionary as the current government and just as capitalist.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      They'd shoot themselves in the foot over and over again over hating trans people and other culture war key jangles.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        8 hours ago

        Would be pretty funny for them to do that and then get couped by the former hardliner remnant party that did the 1991 coup (and is pro LGBT)

  • RiotDoll [she/her, she/her]
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    edit-2
    8 hours ago

    us will nuke itself, probably the west coast, and blame a foreign nation, as an excuse to glass as much as possible. eco-fascism follows, big chunks of the world turned into a cratered smear, the rest exploited down to its remaining yield, then we all fucking die

    also we'll get sent to work for a big corporation and that's just your job now or else. feudalism but corporate and worse

    • bumpusoot [any]
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      4 hours ago

      We're not fully sure of the number, but somewhere between 3 and 20 modern day nukes will be enough to start a global winter where everyone dies anyway. If any kind of nuclear war starts out, even a teeny tiny one, most-to-all of humanity is fucked.

    • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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      8 hours ago

      Reading about the time in 1961 the US almost nuked itself in North Carolina

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    Same as my prediction for hockey post-season: Boston gives Toronto a first-round exit.

  • SadArtemis [she/her]
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    8 hours ago

    #1 is already happening, though the US will bring out the nukes (and probably even bioweapons, etc) before they ever stop being a bunch of genocidal rampaging barbarians. And I expect they will get destroyed by their victims' retaliation and hope it will be as decisive a retaliation as necessary, no matter what it takes.

    #2 will come in time as well, I think. Hell, I think that if things escalate far enough, even India and perhaps the rest of BRICS will be forced to act, militarily- a basic understanding of US/western nuclear exchange planning, as well as the sheer inhumanity of the western imperialist system, will show just how deranged the west is and how intolerable and destructive it will be (should it be able to maintain its fascistic forces from within- the hope being of course that the empire could implode from within and that those involved in the processes of escalating to nuclear war and worse have the sense to revolt should push come to shove).

    #3 is lowkey happening, IMO. I suppose if nothing else they seem to be imitating what works in some degree (the Chinese model of development and even the Soviet legacy which is not yet fully dead). Without the principles of proletarian rule I expect it will regress in time, but it's doing something halfway right (and in foreign policy it's doing a hell of a lot right), I suppose.

    #4 is basically happening everyday, isn't it?

    And #5... isn't going to be an accident, if it happens. The same country that has bombed its own civilians, which has used bioweapons and chemical weapons on its unaware civilians, which uses militarized police against its civilians, will naturally bomb them again, and nukes aren't out of the question. And honestly if the US somehow doesn't bring MAD upon itself before it gets to such a point, it'll probably strike those preventing it from doing so- maybe with nukes, who's to say?