Will there be another war?

LOLing @ "traditional wars". War is war no matter how you fight it. Yes, fighting styles will change over the years. We started with clubs and rocks and we may advance into star wars.

 

I don't think an all out war between superpowers will happen for multiple reasons, one being the fact that it costs too much and no country can afford it, given the current economic state of the world.  Wars between superpowers would certainly end with nuclear weapons.  It would start by whichever side is staring at defeat.
 
Any nation would utilize everything in their arsenal to avoid said defeat thus triggering nuclear exchanges.  That would be the beginning of the end and in that scenario, everyone loses.
 
At best, the conflict would end in stalemate.  Any nation would consider stalemate a better option than total defeat.
 
In the present, superpowers battle each other by proxy and competing political ideologies that are conducted in other countries by using the old doctrine of, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
 
Nations have a poor habit of placing great value on their system of government and the commodity of least value to them is human life.  As long as the governing body remains intact they are perfectly willing to sacrifice many of their people and yours.

 

Guess if you think about it, depends whos in charge.
Fortunaetly we have always had resonable people and moderates in other countries.
Who knows maybe in 100 years all the politicians will be nutters who dont give a shit.

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I think there'll be pseudo - wars not boots on the ground type of stuff. Falsified, exaggerated, deceitful tactics in use today will prevail till people realize, "oh ya!! Those guys that have no fuckin airplane or heavy artillery (ISIS) can't even bring a ship over to the states and fight, geeee what a waste of time thinking there's an actual problem. Kill one, kill two, smash an airplane into a building...that's the best your gunna get! "

 

 
This is pretty sadistic if you ask me. I mean you're hoping on there being pain and suffering for large populations of people; nations of people. And it's all because you're upset that you choose to live out in Kenya or somewhere else in Africa when you have the opportunity to live in the United States as a citizen? Assuming you have dual citizenship that is, which you should being that your mother is American. 
 
Personally, I don't think nukes will ever be used for war. Nobody is going to agree to blow up a part of the world, harming the entire world as a whole, solely to win a war. 

 

 
You're thinking of it from an individualist's perspective. Of course I'm fine...yes, I have dual citizenship. 
 
So you think that people should be ok living in pain, poverty and suffering because other people are living the good life? What makes you think people care if others might get hurt in the process when those people are hurting right now? They'll just be like...you'll suffer? Join the party! lol 
 
Realize that to the people that were born at the bottom of the power structure...they have no choice but to want the powers to beat themselves up. And it's not like I don't have friends and family who are in that situation...you realize that, right? And I have to understand that to them...a world war is actually within their interests. It's either that or they accept their fate at the bottom of the power structure. And not just their fate, but their child's fate, and that child's fate etc etc. That's not the nature of man. 
 
That's why I say that, even if not by my hand, war is inevitable...because I have interacted personally with those at the bottom...and they're not just going to lay down and be stepped on forever and ever. 
 
Of course those at the top...the hegemony...have an interest in keeping the current power structure. But those at the bottom...they don't care to...they rather just go to war. That's where their interests lie...
 
If they are two rise up to global, political, economic, cultural prominence...then they will do what every society has done before them, including America, and become a military powerhouse. (Attempt to at least, and maybe fail...but that's still war..). 
 
Be honest...now. If America were at the bottom of the totem pole..what interest would it have in keeping that power structure intact? Boston Tea Party, anyone? That's just the nature of the world..
 
I'm not hoping for anything by the way...I'm just not naive of what is going to happen. Of course if it were up to me the world would live in an idyllic kumbaya utopia...but, that's just not the way the world works. 
 
War is fact. Peace is just "taking a break". 

 

 
You make a valid argument. I mean, yes, as a global society it basically comes down to a pecking order we often find in ape societies we are so fascinated at observing; something we should have evolved from by now. 
 
Maybe it's the little socialist in me, but I do wish there was an alternative than simply replaying the same broken game of taking down the leader to merely replace them until another state comes along and proceeds to do the exact same thing, soon taking the newfound leaders place, and so on.
 
War wouldn't be a necessity in these sorts of situations if instead a joint effort was made to allow for better equality within the international realm. 

 

MAYBE in 20-30 years if the Chinese want to take back Taiwan and the U.S. is distracted by another country making a land grab/ supporting a secessionist movement. I doubt we'd want to stand up to them in an all out invasion of Taiwan. Maybe china will try to take Siberia who knows. Maybe if India becomes a superpower and finds a way to take out Pakistan's nuclear weapons before an all out invasion. I doubt they'd do that even then just because of Pakistan's undeterred will to launch nukes first


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