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Oh how the world has changed in one single week, we all stand united. Is having a common enemy not the greatest catalyst?
by WelcomeShorty 5y ago
Oh how the world has changed in one single week, we all stand united. Is having a common enemy not the greatest catalyst?
- The_rationalist 5y ago
- charcircuit 5y agoWho is we?
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoNATO is my enemy. Putin as well.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoIf one is against war, this should be upvoted. If one is for war, this should be downvoted.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoSo more people like war than are anti-war. Got it.
- modernpink 5y agoHopefully China gets the same treatment soon. They are a much bigger problem and threat to the West.
- Swenrekcah 5y agoTo the second part of your statement, it’s true that China is an actual contender to the US on both economic, diplomatic and military terms in a way Russia can never hope to be. However, since China is not controlled by a narrow circle of delusional madmen I’m confident that the West and China can continue to cooperate peacefully and there is no need to call for hostilities.
- rurban 5y agohow do you come to conclusion that Chinese leadership is not a narrow circle of delusional madmen? As far as I know there is not much difference, the leadership executing fellow politicians when they find out about their hidden black money, without giving 10% to their fellow cleptocrats. Secret services, censorship and media control is the same, even worse. No difference at all.
- Swenrekcah 5y agoI mostly base that on the observation that China has been more competently run than Russia, as far as I can tell. I'm not very familiar with Chineese leadership structure or any of the things you mention, and of course it is not a democracy. It's run by a narrow group of people and is heavy-handed. I'd never want to live there. It's just that I think that the narrow group, corrupt as it may be, is neither delusional nor desperate.
- rurban 5y agowell, they execute their opponents immediately. delusional a bit, but I only know a few anecdotes of high-profile arrogance paired with stupidity, which they eventually fixed internally.
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- afarrell 5y agoHaving a common goal is a better one -- Even if it is less dramatic. War and destruction are still bad even if they make for more attention-grabbing stories. This remains true even if an unwillingness to risk war means that a people cannot stand up for itself.
- joshuajill 5y agoA catalyst to WWIII, amazed at the crowd cheering.
- threatofrain 5y agoNuclear war is not the same thing as world war, as world war implies that the world is largely divided in conflict. If Russia intends to fly their nukes in response to military confrontation in Urkaine, then India, Saudi Arabia, and China will most certainly weigh in on that. Russia would find itself truly alone in the world.
- verisimi 5y agoYay Russia - the catalyst! Boo Russia!
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoHa! Thank you! I needed that! I was getting way too serious!