World War III

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Seems as though the world is heating up, Russia seems well on its way to becoming communist once again, Africa is hot, the Middle East is hot, Korea is dying to use the bomb, Bush is a war-mongering idiot, the division between the rich and poor grows greater everyday, more people are out of work, and this is only a sampling. With this in mind, does anybody see the potential for WW III in the near future? It seems as though we're sliding downhill towards it, or am I crazy to even think so? Please, tell me I am crazy.

 

[Giraldi_Theirrey]

ABSOLUTLEY!! ABSOLUTLEY! As long as Canada is in power. Just look at the map you guys, look at the size of Canada!
We have enough resources to build a huge wall of tanks and ships all around the coast line. Ammunition is near infinity!! The world will run out of ammo before Canada finishes theirs.
Canada itself is armed and very dangerous.

RISING NATIONALISM:
Very often now and then, a random Canuck usually begins the day with lots of rah rah about how Canadians are more superior to everybody else in the world. T-shirts with the Canadian flag, and all. Of course we all know what that will lead to. Once I heard a little child say "Why can't the world be more like canada?" Oooooh! DANGEROUS PHRASE! I see our youth has been corrupted with imperialist thoughts!! Soon they will make the world like Canada, as in marching a battlion of soldiers into other countries. So will they become the "McKenzie Youth" then?? Next comes the "MAPLE Troopers" yes?? the the CSIS to subsitiute for the SS and now you have a dictatorship. Tsk tsk tsk I know your evil plans guys.

I bet $2000000000 dollars that Canada will start the blitzkreig. Being closest to Washington D.C. I bet the invasion will take only a few days. Once the yanks are down, the world is pretty much in Canada's finger tips. I KNOW you are looking for this opprotunity. So close to Washington D.C.

Making good friends with the yanks eh? Once the yanks let their guard down, Canada will invade from the great lakes and the atlantic.

So who are you voting for emperor???

 

[peapod]

You are suppose to post over in your own thread they set up for you, over in shit chat.

 

[Rick van Opbergen]

One comment Haggis: I would rather say that Russia is heading to extreme nationalism, than to communism. Right-winged groups are becoming more and more popular.

I don't think a WW III will likely to happen in the near future. Can't explain why, but I just have the feeling the modern world knows more about the risks of a worldwar nowadays, and is less indoctrinated by nationalistic feelings (yes I dare to claim that) to actually plunge the planet in a global catastrophe.

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

One comment Haggis: I would rather say that Russia is heading to extreme nationalism, than to communism. Right-winged groups are becoming more and more popular.

I don't think a WW III will likely to happen in the near future. Can't explain why, but I just have the feeling the modern world knows more about the risks of a worldwar nowadays, and is less indoctrinated by nationalistic feelings (yes I dare to claim that) to actually plunge the planet in a global catastrophe.

I want very much to share that feeling, Rick. I can't help but think, though, that the right-wing groups of which you speak are the very reason why we are slipping into a worldwide mindset that doesn't truly understand (or care about) the risks involved with a potential WW III. Right-wing groups think in terms of 'a world war is winnable if we can just beat them to the draw' rather than a saner view of 'a world war probably won't have any winners but will sure have a whole whack of losers'.

 

[Rick van Opbergen]

Now, I'm myself a socialist, but I don't think that when people are adapting more and more rightish views (which I don't like to see happening), this will immediately mean people are more in favor of beginning any war than you seem to imply.

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Oh come on, history shows it to be so. I think it is a default setting of the right-wing mind.

 

[Rick van Opbergen]

What you are referring to are extreme examples of ultra-rightish groups coming into power (WW II), or a much more nationalistic atmosphere, with an explosion of Völkische nationalism in the decades before that (WW I). I don't see that happening nowadays, especially not among the "mainstream" (not extreme) rightish population.

 

[vista]

My opinion is the Third World War as defined so to speak, in comparison to WWI and II - countries battling it out, state versus state, will begin with China.

"I don't think there is a place for both China and the US in the oil market; in the long run, it's a recipe for disaster." Dr. Gal Luft, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

The US must deny China oil so that it will have it's portion.

 

[Rick van Opbergen]

But will a shortage of oil not mean increase efforts of finding an alternative source, like hydrogen?

 

[bogie]

Nope ... no WWIII.

We are too "well-informed" in this enlightened age of communication. We see all, and fear all, and get very pessimistic. The media gets us into a frenzy through sensationailism, reporting anything that hits a nerve.

If such an instantaneous news service existed during WWI and WWII, can you imagine what would have been thought?

"Nix Negativity" - stop watching, or believing CNN.

Oh, yes, we have a few countries in a real fine mess, Ollie, but our history has shown that we have always had global hotspots.

N. Korea - they are playing the shell game and poker at the same time. They want financial aid "without strings". A great game of bluff.

China - like Russia did, realizes that in our world of instant communication, they can no longer easily suppress their people. It is a costly process and they want a big piece of the global $$ - called capitalism. They will become an even bigger player in that area.

The Middle East has always been a "trouble" area - read your history, and long before anything but eskimos and aboriginals ran around North America.

Russia is still a bankrupt mess, and will be for some time to come. Slowly trying to merge into the global economy, after neglecting the obvious for so long.

WWIII won't be allowed to happen.

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Re: RE: World War III

We are too "well-informed" in this enlightened age of communication. We see all, and fear all, and get very pessimistic. The media gets us into a frenzy through sensationailism, reporting anything that hits a nerve.

"Nix Negativity" - stop watching, or believing CNN.

However much I agree that we are living in an age where people are afraid of their own shadow, I think your post suggests (if I am wrong, I stand corrected) that a person concerned with the potential for a world war is harbouring some sort of irrational fear brought about from a susceptibility to sensationalized media reporting.

I can only speak for myself, but I do not watch or read CNN or FoxNews (I read BBC, Globe & Mail and the Washington Post. I do not watch television. Ever.) I do not read sensationalist stories and accept them verbatim. I do, however, form views based on reading information from a broad range of sources. I don't 'believe' there will be WW III, I simply wonder about it. Ergo the question.

A naive belief that modern man is somehow smarter, wiser, has learned his lessons, and knows better than to screw up with a world war is, in my view, tantamount to believing the conspiracy that man's landing on the moon never happened, that it was a mock-up. Can we say fantasy land?

 

[T. Rex]

I'm so sorry to break up these anxious feelings for another world war but the United States is the only real power in the world and there's not one thing we can do to change the fact they rule the world. Thats why I'm for closer ties with the USA rather than going off on our own.

If China or N. Korea decide to get out of line, there will be no more world and there will certainly be no time for a world war.

The Russians ARE heading to communism again as the media which was once liberalized has it's noose being tightened once again by Putin and his ex-KGB friends.

 

[Rick van Opbergen]

I would rather link Putin to an increase of nationalistic feelings among Russians, than to Russia's former communist leaders. And why do you think China will go out of line? Not that I approve with the Chinese leadership, but I think China is less ideological than it once was when it comes to communism (and compared to North Korea).