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You live in the most peaceful time in our species history (ignoring some flareups lately). The vast, vast majority of humanity lives in peace. Turn of the news and go touch some grass my dude.
It's true, but that makes it even more unsettling. Every petty crime gets blown up by media, every time something happens people start screaming that we need camera's and more cops on the streets. I used to work in the bar scene in our city twenty years ago. There were bar fights on a regular base. Now one bar fight in a year makes the national news.
And every single flareup has been the West's fault if you were to trace the thread back to origin. You can't just plant your head in the sand and "go touch some grass" when your taxes fund the Empire of Genocide.
The difference is that we're at a point in time with humanity where just one or two rogue humans could end it all.
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Great! Peace right before we all die to fucking climate change. That's nice.
Total BS. It is very clear that the world is moving to another world war, which will be more world than ever.
That is not "very clear", no. The Cold war did not end in another world war even though everybody built up their militaries. If the power distributions are about even, then most likely nations will stand around waving their missile dicks around until someone goes bankrupt or everybody collectively finds out that keeping that level of military on standby is fucking expensive and slowly powers down again.
The military power that the imperialist nations have built up is NOT standing by. Sincerely, a Ukrainian citizen.
As for the direct confrontatiom between all of them โ capitalism is a system that allows for supposedly infinite growth on a planate with finite resources. Everyone wants to grow, nobody will ever consider to go bankrupt if they have the slightest chance of winning using their military.
What is hapoening in the world nowadays is very similar to how things have been prior to WWI and some people at that time too argued that there will be no full scale war ever, because it is economically not profitable (I could find the name of the guy who even wrote a book about this IIRC). We all know how it ended up.