I don’t know if I’m going crazy but looking at the current situation in the world … please tell me that I’m overexagurating

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    17 hours ago

    There are bad things happening in the world, conflicts, ecological disasters, economic upheavels, and political upheavals. It’s easy to look at these bad things and assume things are much worse than they are. Nobody wants there to be a world war 3.

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    1 day ago

    When Trump was elected again I spent about 3 weeks living with an existential dread I’ve never in my life felt before.

    Whenever it happens, it is coming.

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    23 hours ago

    1 to 2 years no. Next decade sure. The super powers are isolating themselves as their economies become less entwined I expect something to happen.

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    1 day ago

    You are probably overexaggerating.
    There are increased conflicts over the world but no signs of a world war.

    First there are no willing candidates for it. Not even Russia which is engaged in a war is willing to make the push to engage NATO, which is the closest to a world war we would get.
    Neither is Iran willing to go into war which was very obvious after their actions when Israel made ample opportunities for them to escalate conflict.
    And for China… well war is bad for business, and China really likes doing business.

    However the US with Trump at the helm. 🤷 Who the fuck knows. Maybe not world war but I am adding military occupation of Panama and Greenland to my bingo just in case.

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    3 days ago

    please tell me that I’m overexagurating

    You’re overexaggerating.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I’d tend to agree. The war is digital and economic. Countries are hacking each other’s infrastructure and commercial systems, mass propaganda and spying with troll farms, tiktok and even hardware. Plenty of fighting with sanctions, tariffs, bans of sales of technology.

      Fighting for land right now is really unnecessary, however depending on how well humanity survives climate change I’d expect to see some arguments going in to drilling and mining places like Greenland, the arctic and antarctic. China is already setting up shop in Antarctica.

      We are also all tied together economically in so many different ways that a war between major powers would be economically devastating for everyone before the first shot is fired, particularly for the countries that ceded most of their production to other countries that might be hostile in war.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think so.

    Primarily because there’s not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.

    Also, we’ve made the experience of the war in the middle east around 2000 where the USA couldn’t even occupy a farmer’s state for more than a couple years.

    I don’t think anybody realistically thinks they can take over another (big) country in this time.

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      1 day ago

      Primarily because there’s not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.

      Our history of perpetual war seems to disprove this

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Nah, there won’t be WW3. Instead we get countries sabotaging each other via hacking critical infrastructure, proxy wars, propaganda, trade wars.

    I doubt there will ever be a direct “hot war” between the top five nuclear powers ever again.

    WW3 is not what’s gonna kill people, climate change is more likely gonna be humanity’s downfall.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    You’re not overexagerating, the property crisis in the imperial core is becoming so severe that there are only 2 solutions, either the people rebel against its ruling class or they side with them and engage in yet another settler project. In my honest opinion, the latter seems like the most probably outcome, its already very advanced in Palestine and its starting in Syria.