[desertsolitaire]

I think we are all too afraid of WWIII.
It is overblown and unlikely to play out as you all fear.
I barely give it a passing thought as a severe consequence of my recommendations here.

[tumblindice]

Even if something happens it won’t last long, and the boys will be back home in a week, two tops.
July, 1914

[tumblindice]

Even if something happens it won’t last long, and the boys will be back home in a week, two tops.
July, 1914

[Chad_the_Impaler]

I think we are all too afraid of WWIII.

A lot of the fear of the consequences of a WWIII results from propaganda put out by progressives in the 70s and 80s. Today we hear of "globalists" and "globohomos," but the forerunners of these people were active in the previous generation putting out ideas of "nuclear winter" and other exaggerations of the effects of a nuclear war. It is surprising that so many conservatives have bought into that propaganda so heavily, especially considering the source of these overblown fears. The goal of the previous generation of globalists wasn't a world government. Rather, their objective was the unilateral nuclear disarmament of the USA, paving the way for a communist utopia.

[Red6]

If you do not fear a major theater war, when we're already near 1 million casualties with Ukraine and Russia combined, all of NATO and CSTO involved in this conflict, under the table already have a massive influx of volunteers fighting for Ukraine, even uniformed personnel helping Ukraine in secrecy (French Legion and Polish combat engineers have taken casualties), where in the Biden era we were escalating more and more as Ukraine began losing (predictable as Russia partially mobilizes - Russia has the upper hand in every respect), that is not prudent.

Russia is far weaker than us, but they are fully capable of massively expanding beyond their current state (7.1% GDP currently on their war machine, no total population mobilization), and they can take it all the way through nuclear war if they are threatened to the point where this becomes an existential threat to them.

Your reasoning is typical for people that are insulated.

Let's hope there are enough rational minds left to where this does not become personal for us.