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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy it Feels Like We're Heading Towards World War III
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❤️ Umair
@umairh
'The worlds anti-Western authoritarians don't like the West. They think of it as morally degenerate, issuing grand proclamations about justice and equality all while consuming 90% of the worlds resources, and leaving just 10% for 80% of the globe.'
eand.co
Why it Feels Like Were Heading Towards World War III
The Wests Biggest Threat is the World it Made and Now Its Breaking Apart
8:27 AM · Mar 30, 2022
❤️ Umair
@umairh
'The worlds anti-Western authoritarians don't like the West. They think of it as morally degenerate, issuing grand proclamations about justice and equality all while consuming 90% of the worlds resources, and leaving just 10% for 80% of the globe.'
eand.co
Why it Feels Like Were Heading Towards World War III
The Wests Biggest Threat is the World it Made and Now Its Breaking Apart
8:27 AM · Mar 30, 2022
https://eand.co/why-it-feels-like-were-heading-towards-world-war-iii-cb78de6cae59
Quick what do you think the Wests biggest threat is? I bet your answers go like this: Putin, World War, and China. Or some combination of the above. Youre not wrong but, like most of the Wests leaders and intellectuals, you havent fully understood whats happening to the world now, either.
The big picture looks like this. The world order is changing, now, fast. The rules of peace are breaking down. Demagogues are rising. Resources on a dying planet are running out. The placid post-war world which many thought would last forever is now coming to a swift, brutal end, unravelling like a string falling into a black hole.
Im going to tell you a fact which is going to make you deeply uncomfortable. For many of you, it will provoke you into the typical defensive, angry, aggressive position too many now resort to when they hear things they dont like. Put your emotions to one side, and listen carefully, and think calmly. Because Im not kidding when I say the Wests future depends on this fact.
It goes like this.
I call it the Ultimate Ratio of Civilizational Inequality. Thats a mouthful, I know. Just think of it as how lopsided a global economy any one, ficitional, real, ours, alien really is. Id give it a Greek Letter but thanks Covid, you took that one away from me, too, along with the sanity of about 90% of the population, apparently, who care less about poor old grandma dying of suffocation than the huge, burdensome, soul-crushing sacrifice of wearing a goddamned mask. But I digress.
Whats our Ultimate Ratio? Take a deep breath.
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Why it Feels Like We're Heading Towards World War III (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
WW3 has started and unfortunately, the Ukrainians are doing all the fighting for us.
Ray Bruns
Mar 2022
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qazplm135
(7,447 posts)1. Overly simplistic view
That ignores religion, cultural history in favor of solely economics.
Reality is complicated.
Initech
(99,909 posts)2. I've been saying this for a while now!
Yeah it does seem like we're heading towards World War III - it seems inevitable at this point. Even worse is our situation here with us vs the MAGA morons. I feel like things aren't getting better here either and it's a powder keg waiting to go off at this point.
Ray Bruns
(4,020 posts)3. WW3 has started and unfortunately, the Ukrainians are doing all the fighting for us.
We need to give them the weapons they need to push the russian bear back into russia where they belong.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)4. Yup.