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> Cold War 2.0 is coming This would be a blessing. I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to f
by version_five 4y ago
> Cold War 2.0 is coming
This would be a blessing. I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other (see Watchmen- ironically though it was about ending the cold war but a level down it works)
More realistic is a 1984 style "continuous but meaningless war" that lets the various parties pursue their ideological aims without fear of revolt from inside. Though I have no idea how to prepare for this
- Throwawayaerlei 4y ago"I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other...." That never happened during the Cold War from what I've read, and from what I observed starting in the early 1970s it steadily got worse.
- nostrademons 4y agoNote that the 1970s was a time of detente in the Cold War, so it supports the OPs point. As we started to forget about the Russians, we started to fight each other. The 80s is often held up as a time of renewed national unity, and it corresponds with heightened Cold War fears.
- Gud 4y agoOn the other hand, the 60s saw race riots and massive demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Plus the McCarthyism in the 40s and 50s.
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- aliqot 4y agoOn a more positive note, hell yea here comes another space race!
- scarface74 4y ago> This would be a blessing. I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other Except for that whole Jim Crow thing in the south… This was hundreds of years ago. My still living parent grew up during segregation.
- Bancakes 4y agoIt never worked in the war against drugs and war against terror.