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I suspect it’ll be Russia moving on old Soviet states, Iran on Israel and Iraq, North Korea on south, and China on Taiwan to create a global war on so many fron
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
I suspect it’ll be Russia moving on old Soviet states, Iran on Israel and Iraq, North Korea on south, and China on Taiwan to create a global war on so many fronts the west can’t contain any of it. The goal will be less about defeating the west and more about breaking the image of unassailability and forcefully assert a multipolar world order.
- ggm 3y agoGod help us all. Although, it's been perpetual war in the middle east since forever, Africa is a shit show, and at least one of the nations you mention is independently nuclear armed so the outcome will be interesting to say the least. Two of your proposed engagements would echo the iran-iraq conflict for body count because they will be contested on sea and land, and at great cost to the aggressor. The last time Korea was fought over approximately 5m troops were committed. I guess that soaks up a lot of china's unemployed youth but I doubt they will be happy about it. There are no cheap victories here. Once the more modern stocks of weapons runs out, it's slings and arrows. Henry Kissinger will fix it. Don't worry.
- 0xDEF 3y ago>I suspect it’ll be Russia moving on old Soviet states. Russia doesn't want to rebuild the Soviet Union. They want to rebuild the Russian Empire. The Baltic countries, Finland, and (all of) Ukraine were parts of the Russian Empire and are more likely to be invaded that ex-USSR states like Armenia and Azerbaijan. Putin sees himself as Peter the Great and not a "dirty little Georgian peasant" like Stalin.