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Reminds me of another comment on a different story weeks ago which remarked: "I wonder if we will look back at this period and include it in the time period of

• simonblack 3y ago
  WW3 has definitely already begun. Looking back, we count all the years between 1937 and 1945 as years of WW2. Japan and China were the two belligerents who fought the longest, all eight years between 1937 and 1945. So you could compare this current time to the China-Japan conflict during the 1937-1939 period or the 1939-1940 period of the 'phoney war' in Europe or even the period 1937-1941 before the Soviets and the US were both involved.
  • mindslight 3y ago
    ... but only if current events actually keep escalating to the scale of a world war. If Russia/Putin loses steam and the precedent takes the winds out of China's foreign policy sails, or if China's domestic economy implodes and neuters the economic support for Putin's war, the current events will likely just fizzle out. Ten years ago I generally thought the end of the US/USD empire was inevitable. Now that the chief competitors are playing their hands in some very foolish ways (and cryptocurrency has been basically harmlessly absorbed by the incumbent financial system), I'm not so sure.