Do you see possibility of WW-III looking at the current situation?

No. A follow up of the original UN police action but no more.

Short answer is yes.

Of course it is a possibility.

We’re very likely there already. I’m pretty sure the history books are going to back it up to at least 9/11, possibly further.

Yes. The situation in Syria more than that in North Korea. I don’t actually expect it, but I think I can say that we’ve come closer to it than we have in a while.

Depends on what you mean by “WW-III”. I think that’s a very vague term that unfortunately predicts some sort of all-out formal military war between nations, and/or nuclear warfare, just because of what happened in the past and what was feared for a few decades after.

I think that’s an unfortunate mental box to be constrained by.

One major shift that is becoming clearer and clearer is that the main powers are no longer very believable as nation-states and their people striving against each other as teams (which was a dominant model which actually led to the first Great War). In recent decades, however, it is clear that there are other major bases of power that are not nation-states and which are not aligned with national populations. Multi-national corporations. Industries and other groups of multi-national corporations that work together and/or are owned by the same groups of companies and investors and so on. The inter-owned trans-national banking industry. The people who own large controlling parts of those.

There may still be a narrative about the USA being attacked on 9/11 and going off to fight a War On Terror by invading Iraq and Afghanistan etc., but it’s pretty clear that that’s mostly just a narrative to enable it to happen, and that the causes for it all have to do with the oil industry and the concerns of other powerful groups who are not actually the US Government, the United Nations, nor the people of the USA (except the ones who buy and cling to the superficial story about it).

There are certainly major conflicts going on, even if they mostly do not involve much conventional warfare. Mostly it seems to involve corporate domination of governments, laws, natural resources, patents, wealth, industry trends, culture and ideas.

The above may well lead to escalation in conventional violence, especially with the orange clown act as POTUS. Putin has since many years warned of eventual warfare over such things as US corporations’ continued pushing of GMO crops, for example. China would like to take over Taiwan. Climate change is liable to cause various extreme crises at some point. Etc.

I’m a bit concerned yes, but fuck it all, not a damn thing we can do and really, would it be all that surprising? We all know that mankind is going to tip their own scales into oblivion one way or another as it is. Nuclear war, famine, pestilence, whatever, the end is near. How’s that for cynicism? lol

@Coloma What if the inevitability of catastrophic war and human extinction through industrial abuse is due to a foundation of agreement in our thinking, sustained by us repeating those conversations instead of saying something else?

Seems to me that if enough people stop repeating the cynical old predictions and instead say anything as positive and constructive as even “let’s not do that”, that we would in fact not do that.

Let’s not do that.

@Zaku Of course, world enlightenment would be the way to go but it is highly doubtful that will ever occur. As always it comes down to “be the change you wish to see in the world.” I follow that mantra in my life in the ways I do, and many do as well but clearly, not nearly enough to save the species or the planet. As long as there are humans there will be egos more than willing to fight and destroy in the name of power and control which is what ego is all about.
I gave up my Utopian visions many moons ago and focus on my own little contributions in the areas I contribute in. It’s called living in reality.

@Coloma As always it comes down to “be the change you wish to see in the world.” I follow that mantra in my life in the ways I do, and many do as well but clearly, not nearly enough to save the species or the planet.

And yet, you don’t vote.

@Coloma I am human and have an ego and I ham not “willing to fight or destroy in the name of power and control” and it is not “what [my] ego is all about”. Is that really what your ego is all about? It sounds to me like yours isn’t, but that you are just being resigned and cynical and repeating something you’re not happy about and don’t actually identify with, no?

Things only keep being said, and treated as reality, when people keep saying them.

I don’t vote either. There’s nothing wrong with not playing the BS game…

@ dappled leaves…. not voting and being relatively apolitical does not and has not cancel out all the rest of my lifetimes good deeds and contributions. There are many ways to make a difference without involving oneself in the futility of politics.

@Zaku That may be, but the fact remains that the reality we live in is far from enlightened and ego and the need to fight, be right, dominate and obtain and retain power is strong in the human animals drive.

Only if Scorcese can bag DiCaprio & DeNiro within budget.

No. International trade and cooperation are in everyone’s best interest. The rise of the right in the U.S. and Europe will pass. The only potential threats come from possible fuel shortage or global warming crisis. Then it would be every country for itself.