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Seriously, given how interconnected all these conflicts are, I’m convinced we are in WWIII,
No one said it has to have more deaths than the last one to be considered a world war
Israel's genocide is actually a sideshow. The real war is the fossil fuel industry versus the survival of humanity. Economics is no longer on their side, so they are using force, bribery, subversion, surveillance, the kitchen sink. We need to completely destroy them and asset-strip them. That'll end the oil sheikhs, Putin, the global astroturf anti-environmentalist movement, and a few assholes in Texas and Alberta too.
the preamble perhaps. the conflict that sets the stage.
fml, the idea that putin/bibi/trump ally so closely in their desire to destroy their own countries, and xi is like: let's make more terawatts of solar power and help cuba - the world is stranger and darker every day.
ebola may finally hit globally, thanks to stupid cuts at cdc/who/usaid
and then there's taiwan... just sitting there, all tempting, and the US having expended tremendous amounts of our arsenal for the iranian folly.... gee whiz...
I agree, it has yet to devolve into a full scale world war, but I wouldn't be surprised if China makes a move on Taiwan by 2030.
China will conquer Taiwan from within, same as they vanquished America from the #1 world slot.
Propaganda, won't even have to fire a shot.
if they could ever do that, don't you think they'd have done it already?
do you have any evidence to support the idea that taiwanese attitudes have changed?
Dude you're totally right. If someone hasn't done something yet, then they're never ever going to do that.
Insightful.
it's a genuine inquiry about your response - China has long desired to recapture their 'lost' island (never was theirs but set that aside) and continues to run all kinds of pressure campaigns from political interference in Taiwanese government to artillery attacks on the outlying islands to pressuring the vast majority of the world to ignore their existence.
Taiwan has shown incredible resilience over decades and decades.
Now, if Trump robs them of the support and legitimacy, throws them to the wolves, all bets are off. Perhaps Taipei sees the writing on the wall - but man, I don't see that going well either. Hong Kong illustrated - there is no separate peace, you get china, you get chinese rule and it's not light handed.
It's a shit sandwich, and the US has made it all worse with the iran bullshit draining our magazines, fleet deployments, and most importantly, resolve to stand up for our allies.
I'd be amazed if they wait that long. It would give us a chance to rebuild stockpiles.
I don't think Taipei is at risk tomorrow, but holy hell this is gonna be a fraught year....
I've heard people speculate that it's more like WW5 or 6, depending on how you want to count global conflicts between superpowers.
But from the US perspective, we're a far cry from the kind of Total War we engaged in during the 40s.
This war only feels existential if you're on the receiving end.
It probably already has, tbh.
2.6 million russian kia, more wounded - Russian economists in russian economic forums in public made a claim of 600k dead russians per year of war
what's wild are the killed vs injured ratios on the russian side... for years, they've just been leaving tremendous numbers to die on the field, and even when they're recovered from the battle and recuperate, there's no respite - they send the dumb bastards into the fight on crutches and torture anyone who objects.
That's exaggerated. While real numbers are not known, Ukraine reports around 1,000 casualties per day but only around third or less of that are dead, others are injured.
Recently dead has been 2:1 over injured.
Ukrainians have counted around 1.4 mill - but Ukrainians don't have precise numbers on the russians killed by their own commanders for refusing to fight or not paying enough money to their commanders. The 2.4 mill number comes from russian economists in public russian economic forums this year.
Any other sources than economist? Russia matters talks about 325000 killed soldiers (Russia Matters). BBC News with Mediazona estimates between 300000-400000 dead soldiers on Russian side (BBC News Youtube.
it is that, + Palestinians + Israelies + Iranians + Lebanense + Others
No that's just russians. No other nationality in that count.
I mean, if we count this as a world war, we should add up all deaths
We should but I don't have those numbers. I only have numbers for russians.
There havent been many deaths in those conflicts(comparatively). I think it only adds an extra 85k
But you can add the Africa conflicts in and Yemen and that boosts it up quite significantly.
Putting aside (unintentionally?) calling the Palestinian genocide a "conflict", the last reliable death count for Gaza alone was already 186k two years ago and the rate of extermination has only INCREASED since then.
85k for Gaza, West Bank, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries in the region combined is a RIDICULOUS undercount.
We absolutely are and have been for a while. People will catch up to reality one day.
So who exactly is the allied vs axis
It's Axis vs Axis this time.
Spy vs Spy.
Just because some of the belligerents are allied doesn't make them Allied.
Enemy of my enemy... etc.