” There is no “total war” and “unrestricted warfare” between industrial nations today and this is very unlikely to happen, with only one possible exception, the PRC vs. US.
The destruction is too great. No different than the use of a nuke.
WWII was the last war of it’s kind and that was 80 years ago.”
This reminds me of the thinking of politicians on the eve of WW1, when they thought the war would be limited because it would be too expensive and destructive to extend it to an industrial level.
Not only did WW1 exceed everyone’s worst case scenario, after the “War to end all Wars” they went for an even bigger one 20 years later.
Well now they all think that joining gigantic alliances with 30+ countries will prevent war. But all it does is suppress small wars, but when war actually comes it will be the gigantic world war that everyone most fears !
Unlikely. What we will see is a bunch of skirmishes. Putin will conclude that Biden has no backbone. So he makes his move on the Baltics. Then NATO troops will retreat. Then the Russians will conquer the Baltics.
Now is the time for Putin to make that move.
WWI and WWII didn’t have nukes.
Today the average Joe is aware, even in the US, that given the right enemy, they are not untouchable.
The casualness by which people make decisions for war are over since both in the political sphere and layperson there is an awareness that if you push things to far, you’ll end up with mutual destruction.
We have been in the era of “limited warfare” for a long time, all the Cold War (which wasn’t really all that cold given all the proxy conflicts) is an example.