Beet
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« on: October 18, 2019, 11:07:17 PM » |
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We are getting back into a pre WWI mentality. This is bad news. The question shouldn't be "how will the greatest powers align" but how the world can avoid a repeat of 1914 in the first place.
The post-Edwardian era powers eventually aligned in an imbalanced way because the US, UK and Soviet Union dwarfed Germany and its allies in terms of output. That meant the world wars, as horrific as they were, were not nearly as bad as they would have been if, for instance, the US and the USSR were forced into a fight to the end. Today, unless it's the US, China and India against Russia, no such dwarfing is possible. That, in combination with the advent of nuclear weapons and other new technologies, guarantees that World War III would be even worse of a catastrophe than the first two.
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