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.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    I’m gonna assume that WW3 means that nukes will be used, because I feel like, in a conventional war that’s “agreed upon” beforehand, if any nuclear country was close to defeat it’s gonna make the calculation, and at least one of them would go “yep, fuck it, fire the nukes, we’ve gotta do something or we’re all gonna be killed in our war rooms” and that would start the chain reaction.

    I think this precludes a Russia-style decline, in which the US just kinda eats itself in a Civil War. Not enough coordination or capacity to launch a nuclear strike because all the various military factions are just in a scramble for power.