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.
As time goes on - I think a possible an end of the civilization scenario might go like this...
Two countries that share a border go to war.
If they are poor countries - the world won't even pay attention to this localized war.
One side decides to use bioweapons to win easily. The weapons are sneaky to allow the side using them to have deniability. It's a highly transmittable respiratory illness. It seems to be a bad cold at first and after 3 week it progresses rapidly likely causing death.
Through some combination of greed, hubris, stupidity, etc - the bioweapon goes beyond the enemy country into neighboring countries.
Due to yet more hubris, stupidity, plus propaganda, etc - infected people in neighboring countries at fist don't realize they are infected.
Due to globalization - say, a dozen people travel on planes. They go to Cairo, Tokyo, Peking, New York or wherever. And it quickly becomes a pandemic.
As time goes on variants develop - killing people in countries all over the world.
Because it's a bioweapon - scientists, medical researchers and the link can't figure out how to combat it.
Over decades it keeps killing gigantic numbers of people.
I'm just a layman in terms of everything in this scenario. Maybe a couple (or a few) list items aren't plausible. Or aren't plausible now.
In any case - I think the unfortunate term for this century will be "weaponization".
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From what I understand, again just someone who works in a bio medical lab the bio weapons that exist are extremely lethal but typically because they are so lethal they don't spread easily, there are some contradict to that I admit that, see damn you got me thinking like plague inc now 🤔 which deadly virus or even better maybe Cdj but modified. I mean the real under lying issue is how far clandestine labs the us has can use methods like crisper to really understand a organisms DNA to get to to do particular things which is basicly where we are kinda trying to understand poly genetic traits better. An analogy would be that we can now play every key on a piano 🎹 but we don't know how to make music. So hell this isn't that far off.
Another possibility is a bioweapon that's sickening nature on steroids: multiple sicknesses in one. Like a mashup of a respiratory illness plus you disease where you die a gruesome death a à la Marburg.
What is Marburg? This Virus Causes Victims to Bleed From Every Orifice and Die
Another possibility is - I'll call it - blackmail war. Country A and Country B are two weeks into a "normal" war when troops and citizens of Country B start coming down with a respiratory illness. Country A then says (privately or perhaps publically) to Country B - we've secretly infected your troops and the citizens of your five largest cities with covid-marburg.
Surrender now and we'll give you the antidote. Otherwise most of your your troops will die, a few million of your citizens will bleed out from every orifice and die in the next ~7 days, and we'll win anyway. You have 10 hours to comply.
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