12-30-2019, 11:00 PM
(12-30-2019, 06:35 PM)Mickey123 Wrote: First, it could resolve itself in an enormous war. The only powers in the world which could realistically take on the U.S., and which there's any reasonable chance of the U.S. fighting, would be China and Russia. As Crises are an opportunity to resolve issues, it may be that the U.S., and some of its allies, go to war against both China and Russia, under the idea that all nations must be democratic. This could result in a vastly strengthened United Nations which has real power, an actual global government....
One way or another, I think this is going to be far, far worse than many of you here are imagining.
What, did Xenakis not post his prediction of all out nuclear war today?
I would note that neither Japan nor Germany could realistically take on the US in World War 2, either, but yet they started the war. I could see Erdogan starting a war in the middle east or the eastern Med, for example, and then that blowing up. If the EU had a couple years to build up a nuclear stockpile, they could challenge the US - or Russia.