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No, it’s not inevitable. That’s poisonous thinking. We can always de-escalate. That’s the kind of stupidity that led to the First World War, and the First Wo
by fallingfrog 5y ago
No, it’s not inevitable. That’s poisonous thinking. We can always de-escalate. That’s the kind of stupidity that led to the First World War, and the First World War led to the Second World War. None of it had to happen. There were always other options.
Edit: We should immediately attack China because they’re a bunch of godless communists! The CCP is a murderous regime trying to develop biological weapons to murder everyone! Better to just have at it now while we still have the bigger army! Why not just use nukes!
Every time anyone mentions China for any reason we just end up in the dumbest flame wars imaginable.
- corty 5y agoNo, we can't. Appeasement didn't help against Hitler, deescalation just gave him the Sudentenland and Austria "for free", strengthening Germany and prolonging the coming war. Deescalation only works if all sides actually do not want a conflict. But China still wants to incorporate Taiwan and the South China sea. I don't see how one could deescalate those. And deescalating by allowing China to annex, well, see above.
- fallingfrog 5y agoThe fact that war exists at all is psychotic and utterly baffling. Any member of the human race that ever argues for increasing a military budget needs years of intensive therapy. Militaries just shouldn’t exist. If they had never been invented nobody would see the need for them. Hitler and his whole horrible movement was the product of war. Ugh I just don’t know what’s wrong with people.