• mrmaplebar@fedia.io
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    Well, Trump has now dragged us into a World War on behalf of Israel. Meanwhile people in America starve, are homeless, addicted to opiates, and have no jobs and no healthcare. Everything is unaffordable and the American people are hopeless, and now another endless war.

    Fuck Trump. America First? America fucking Last…

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      I’m not seeing any reason why a world war would erupt over this. China and Russia are glad that the US has entered into another stupid military mess, they have no reason to actively engage, the US is destroying itself all on its own.

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        Yeah, I don’t know that this will cause a world War, but it does give a pretty nice opening for China to do things it wouldn’t be able to do under normal circumstances. They can attack a, supposedly, belligerent neighbor and say it’s the same thing the US did to Iran, and the US will be tied up with this conflict for an unknown amount of time. World wars don’t start from a single thing. They start from rising tensions across the board. The war with Ukraine and Iran are pieces of a larger conflict.

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        Saying this is the start of a World War is such a USA-centric brain dead take. Ukraine war is closer to World War than anything that might happen in Iran will ever be.

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          I think it is likely that the Ukraine war will be widely considered the beginning of a series of events that will later be labeled “the ramp up to WWIII”, of which this is an indirect extension.

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          Ugh… China is constantly itching while constantly glaring at Taiwan, and (recently) eastern Russia… Distracted 'murica makes braver China

          WW started not suddenly, everybody kinda slowly joined the party

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            US and Israel: literally bombing Iran unilaterally during negotiations

            Lemmitor: BUT CHINA BAD!!!

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          China is likely to attack Taiwan while the U.S. is distracted. Pakistan and India could get into it while there’s no one available to intervene.

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            US has been distracted many times when they attacked and invaded like a dozen countries since WWII?

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            Unlike the US, China isn’t governed by a attention-span lacking moron. They want Taiwan, and will not rest until they have it, but they also don’t want a war with the US over it, unless they can be certain to win it. This isn’t it.

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          If you can’t connect the dots between Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and Venezuela then I simply don’t know what to tell you…

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        While the US is distracted on two other fronts (Central America and the Middle East) China can take Taiwan with ease.

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        Despots back each other up and form an alliance network, because an alliance network is the only way to be powerful against the West. This hits their alliance and long term makes their alliance weaker. However Russia is busy, and China is too reliant on exports.

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          There is no alliance between China and Russia and Iran. Iran is a minor player in this. You are regurgitating Bush “axis of evil” nonsense as if it was actually true. China and Russia doesn’t care about Iran, and they were never allied to them. They benefited from Iran in various ways then, they will benefit in various ways from this US disaster.

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          Because they’re not a bloodthirsty empire like the US? China hasn’t been at war for over half a century

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        Why does it have to involve the big powers for it to be a world war?

        IMO that implies that less powerful countries being in chaos doesn’t matter.

        I always thought world war just meant a lot of countries in a related conflict.

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          Because it is a pretty basic and factual definition of world war. War occurring in different places in the world at the same time does not equal a world war.

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      Don’t worry, the AI bubble will probably export unemployment to the rest of the world before it bursts, so everyone can starve

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          More or less, but it looks like the majority of the countries is not willing to do that (I only heard of real results at scale in Finland, tbh)

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      This is the message that needs to get spammed on every liberal and conservative forum, twitter thread, facebook group and subreddit.

      We can’t stop trying to associate in their minds the pain and suffering they’re feeling right now, in this moment, with Trump and Israel.

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      Just desperate enough for the promises of the benefits received by military service to start sounding very appealing.