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I disagree with the assertion that it is cultural or societal, but i completely agree with the math. If ANYthing actually happens in Europe, how could there no

I disagree with the assertion that it is cultural or societal, but i completely agree with the math. If ANYthing actually happens in Europe, how could there not be a scramble in the Pacific? So many competing interests, so much war tech laying about. Capitalism uses the large business cartels of the world to maintain a 'net peace' but the system is cracking because of isolationism.

Shivetya 12y ago
watch for signs where it becomes more profitable to take other people's stuff or prevent them from having it than to fixing your own backyard. If anything capitalism may be stalling full blown world wars now, it simply costs to much to do them and its far more profitable to not. However limited wars and police actions are far more likely to keep the threat to all that money being made minimal
- classicsnoot 12y ago
  That time is upon us. I agree that Capitalist Organization [G20,WTO,etc] has prevented at least one major conflict, but it would appear to have done that by fomenting and/or suppressing the conflicts of smaller groups. The weapons get sold, but the stockpiles stay evenish. This is falling apart. Moscow was backed into a corner, and the bet a lot the US, NATO, and EU would do nothing substantial in the face of naked force. They won that hand. This makes every player at the table more gutsy or more scared. Incipient Muslim region-states blossom across the globe, every single one of them in an area where rampant capitalism was used, and abused, to modernize[sic] the region. Smaller European nations reforge alliances and mutual defense pacts. 'Scientific' reports of any given nations 'weakness' in terms of humanpower, weapons, etc. start to crop up in media forms. Soon enough the christians will jump in, and with them comes the child soldiery tolerance. I digress from fantasy, but more to the point: the next war may look more like a massive construction project that kills a bunch of people on the edges. all my opinions; would love to discuss if you think im way off. I cant help but think of 1900-1914.

Shivetya 12y ago

watch for signs where it becomes more profitable to take other people's stuff or prevent them from having it than to fixing your own backyard. If anything capitalism may be stalling full blown world wars now, it simply costs to much to do them and its far more profitable to not. However limited wars and police actions are far more likely to keep the threat to all that money being made minimal

classicsnoot 12y ago
That time is upon us. I agree that Capitalist Organization [G20,WTO,etc] has prevented at least one major conflict, but it would appear to have done that by fomenting and/or suppressing the conflicts of smaller groups. The weapons get sold, but the stockpiles stay evenish. This is falling apart. Moscow was backed into a corner, and the bet a lot the US, NATO, and EU would do nothing substantial in the face of naked force. They won that hand. This makes every player at the table more gutsy or more scared. Incipient Muslim region-states blossom across the globe, every single one of them in an area where rampant capitalism was used, and abused, to modernize[sic] the region. Smaller European nations reforge alliances and mutual defense pacts. 'Scientific' reports of any given nations 'weakness' in terms of humanpower, weapons, etc. start to crop up in media forms. Soon enough the christians will jump in, and with them comes the child soldiery tolerance. I digress from fantasy, but more to the point: the next war may look more like a massive construction project that kills a bunch of people on the edges. all my opinions; would love to discuss if you think im way off. I cant help but think of 1900-1914.