Posted on 08/23/2020 6:49:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Key point: The risk of war may be low, but it is ever present.
As the United States enters an election year, prospects for global stability remain uncertain. President Trump’s foreign policy stood at odds with those of his predecessor, and will likely a central point of contestation in the election. At this point, several crises might emerge that would not only turn the election, but potentially bring about a wider global conflict.
Iran-Israel
Iran and Israel are already waging low-intensity war across the Middle East.
Turkey
The state of the relationship between the U.S. and Turkey has decayed to the extent that some fear for the future of the NATO alliance.
Kashmir
Over the past decade, the gap in conventional power between India and Pakistan has only grown, even as Pakistan has tried to heal that gap with nuclear weapons.
Korean Peninsula
If North Korea decides to undertake an ICBM or (worse) nuclear test, the Trump administration might feel the need to intervene forcefully.
South China Sea
U.S.-China relations stand at a precarious point.
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If it was a world war, it was a continuation of the second, and even with the USSR gone it was continued by Red China.
Germany and the Soviets had the same ideas and didn’t like the competition.
We gave out medals for “the Cold War”. Different name, same series.
How could South Africa start a World War? Invading Botswana isn’t going to cause a lot of late nights in the HQs of the world’s nuclear powers.
Just like the Bloods and the Crips.
I can see Comintern agents working Antifa and BLM types worked into a frenzy until they begin rioting, and normal people defending themselves.
Portland, Oregon.
Korea-the Sporks would win.
Kashmir-I say India.
Iran-let the jooz take them out.
Turkey-let the Greeks stick it up their a$$.
As I see it we stay out. Chicoms will be too busy to expand.
Yes, I want to be rid of those parasitic bastards.
All of them.
One other note: They are completely free to form that “long-planned anti-US military now.
With my and most other Americans blessing.
But they don’t have the will or the steel in their spine.
If China were foolish enough to attack Taiwan, India would be tempted to attack China in the Himilayas where their border is in dispute and there have been military clashes. Pakistan in turn might then attack India to settle the Kashmir issue. Southeastern Asian countries fearful of Chines military might and expansion plans might but not likely be drawn into the fight. Would the US and Australia somehow become engaged? Probably not since it is very doubtful that an American President would commit to defending Taiwan. However nuclear armed countries fighting each other could be catostrophic.
It would be such a bloody inconclusive mess, can only hope war gamers in those countries can convince their political masters that war would be a disaster and should be avoided at all costs.
That’s three for Portland.
New York, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, or Seattle
Kenosha?
6: Cleveland. Don’t ask me why.
CC
They forgot to include ‘flyover country.’
Ummm some ideas are best NOT to share...
Of course they do. Feigning weakness is a millennia-old tactic.
I certainly want to be rid of the parasitism, but consider that it was the left in the US government that permitted it by design, not to mention entrenching the “soft” socialism there and building it here by undermining our morals.
presumably this was the case for years and decades. the virus’ political and economic impact is a seismic event still unraveling. it is going to be looked back at as a singular event that started the ball rolling on some bad things. I think it will be a comparable trigger event to the assassination that is widely viewed as having pushed the first domino to wwI.
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