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Let's look at this another way: Do you think that there will never be another major war? Like never, ever, ever again? Can you genuinely state with certainty
by Teever 10y ago
Let's look at this another way: Do you think that there will never be another major war? Like never, ever, ever again?
Can you genuinely state with certainty that humanity is over fighting major wars -- that we've evolved past that?
The answer is simply no, we haven't gotten past that point and likely never will. So in that context we should be developing weapons to fight and win wars against the most likely of threats.
The most likely threats happen to be China and Russia.
- jcoffland 10y agoIt's a brave new world.
- tormeh 10y agoNo, we haven't evolved past major wars, but nuclear weapons have made them impossible to win. That is something new under the sun. That's why I don't believe in "a world without nuclear weapons" - a world without nuclear weapons is a world in which the next world war is imminent. That said, something is going to happen in the south China sea. But no rational actor would ever start a nuclear war. That leaves cold-war style local dominance battles. Not nice, but not a major war either.