The amount of propaganda on the internet over the last few days has been crazy

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[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The preparations for a war against Russia and the 2020 elections.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

War with Iran (and maybe Syria) I would say, rather than Russia, and yeah probably that and the 2020 elections like you said.

And maybe war with china. This trade war thing is kind of getting serious unfortunately... but hopefully it's mostly posturing and the ruffled feathers will be resolved soon. But with the way China is behaving toward HK... there are a lot of tense situations right now, but some of those may resolve without bigger problems, who knows.

[–]thefadd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The good thing about China is that the US is having all these disagreements strictly through trade. These are the two most important economies in the world and they are intertwined in extremely complicated ways. There are simply too many people who would lose too much money to see millions of Chinese die in a war with America.

The only way war with China happens in anything close to the near term is if China attempts to take Taiwan and then China retaliates against US assistance to Taiwan. And the world would absolutely be forced to intervene because Japan would have no choice but to intervene on Taiwan’s behalf.

Even this would just be a proxy war, though, fought on Taiwan. People forget Japan’s interest in such a conflict but China does not. Once they get Hong Kong under their boot, it’s possible China may begin to turn their attention toward Taiwan. Their invasion would have to be insanely fast and overpowering, however, which would be nearly impossible given the western mountain region that is more impenetrable than Afghanistan and the fact that every single man, woman, and child in Taiwan is 100% prepared for invasion and regularly participates in invasion drills.

And the US and South Korea would likely make it a two front war by bombing every single North Korean to death.