Anyone else think "WWIII" is around the corner?

[Kells81]

I don't have much of anything to do but read the one sided news. Anyway I get allot of world events. Right now it looks like there is a possibility of a showdown with N. Korea and Iran. I think this could spill over to the Packi's and Chinese also.

I know war is bad but right now it looks like something is gonna have to give sooner or later. Who do you think will make the first move?

This may be the dumbest post around but it seems like some of it could happen.

 

[Veer_G]

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Something is around the corner. The question is more the where than it is the when.

 

[SeanRT]

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We can only hope so

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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Isn't it obvious?

Canada is going to invade South, AGAIN!!!

We're going to take over, ergo taking over the World Monetary standings, and instead of everything being based on/compared with the Greenback, it will then be valued against the Looney.

This way, we can all truthfully say that the world has gone Looney.

Simple logic, really. I don't see why it isn't obvious to everyone.

(insert EviL laugh here)

And the underground commerce will trade in Maple Syrup values.




Ok, all joking aside, there is going to be a 'reset button' that gets pushed. The question is, is it going to be a simple 'reboot' or is it going to start with scrubbing/re-formatting the hard-drive and re-installation of an Operating System?

Blast us all back to the Abacus Period?

 

[VJJPunisher]

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WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[eldiablo]

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No way will we go to war with Iran. The sanctions put on Iran are absolutely crippling the country. The only war Iran will be in is a civil war.

 

[High Binder]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: el diablo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No way will we go to war with Iran. The sanctions put on Iran are absolutely crippling the country. The only war Iran will be in is a civil war. </div></div>

Technically, we're already at war with Iran...

I think when WWIII does come along, and its coming, we'll see an entirely different version of the U.S. when it's over.

 

[CE1371]

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People get caught up in all the negative news. There will always be wars but I don't see WW3 happening anytime soon. War by proxy is the game of the day.

 

[EddieNFL]

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We lack the leadership to (truly) go to war. The next 9/11 will be answered with strong condemning language, sanctions and maybe a cruise missile or two launched and innocuous targets.

Not much will change after November...regardless of the outcome.

 

[windermike]

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The horn of Africa may be where our next military action is.

 

[Bruiser_Joe]

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guys are already there, been for a while

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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I'm telling ya, Canada is gonna take over! We'll lead the way.

 

[Silver_Bullet_00]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm telling ya, Canada is gonna take over! We'll lead the way. </div></div>

Only after Quebec splits off, then Canada might have a chance.

or As long as Quebec is not leading

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Silver_Bullet_00</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm telling ya, Canada is gonna take over! We'll lead the way. </div></div>

Only after Quebec splits off, then Canada might have a chance.

or As long as Quebec is not leading

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They couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery!

Seriously though, as legitimate and concerning as this topic is, and with all respects to the OP, how far can one go on this topic without being seditious? Ergo, a brief moment of levity. Or two.

 

[vwhugger]

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An asymmetrical CWII is probably more likely, all things considered.

 

[shootist2004]

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guess I better stock up on primers........

did you see the woman jump on the roof of Achmadenajads car and point her finger in his face! 6 to 1 she's pushin up daisys right now...

 

[Tac22]

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No one thinks that if there was a WW3 that Russia would get involved? Wouldbe potential troublefor Iran, China, Russia, Somalia and North Korea to all team up against Nato..

 

[wfjames22]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tac22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> No one thinks that if there was a WW3 that Russia would get involved? Wouldbe potential troublefor Iran, China, Russia, <span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Somalia</span></span> and North Korea to all team up against Nato.. </div></div>

Better watch out for those badasses from Somalia!

 

[Tac22]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wfjames22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tac22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> No one thinks that if there was a WW3 that Russia would get involved? Wouldbe potential troublefor Iran, China, Russia, <span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Somalia</span></span> and North Korea to all team up against Nato.. </div></div>

Better watch out for those badasses from Somalia! </div></div>

Not thatthey are a huge or even technologically advanced people. However they do have russian weapons and are constantly at war. To under estimate them in an urban environment could be a mistake. They aren't just pirates.. Plus I included them since we arent exactly known to be on "good" terms with them. They are driven by money and I don't seeit as far fetched for them to be hired for war or to get involvedin even the smallest way..

 

[wfjames22]

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I hear ya, just struck me as funny at first...not one of the countries/people I think of when thinking of WWIII threats/major combatants.

 

[Tac22]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wfjames22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I hear ya, just struck me as funny at first...not one of the countries/people I think of when thinking of WWIII threats/major combatants. </div></div>
Yeah, no doubt. Unfortunately Vietnam probably wasn't either and at first people probably thought it would be a cake walk too. But you know how that goes with politics and all...

 

[Maggot]

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North Korea's military Monday threatened "special actions" soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul's conservative government of defaming its leadership.

The North has for months been criticising the South's President Lee Myung-Bak in extreme terms and threatening "sacred war" over perceived insults.

There have been no incidents but the language has become increasingly vitriolic. Some analysts said they believe a military provocation is likely.

"The special actions of our revolutionary armed forces will start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors," said a statement on the official news agency.

The North said its targets are "the Lee Myung-Bak group of traitors, the arch criminals, and the group of rat-like elements including conservative media destroying the mainstay of the fair public opinion".

It said the actions "will reduce all... to ashes in three or four minutes... by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style".

Tens of thousands rallied in Pyongyang last Friday, screaming hatred for Lee and calling for his death over alleged insults.

Last week the nuclear-armed North accused Lee of "desecrating" mass celebrations marking the 100th anniversary on April 15 of the birth of Pyongyang's founding president Kim Il-Sung.

It bridled at anti-Pyongyang demonstrations in Seoul and at comments by Lee and conservative media. These questioned the cost of the anniversary celebrations for a nation suffering acute food shortages.

Lee said the estimated $850 million cost of a rocket launch intended to mark the anniversary could have bought 2.5 million tonnes of corn.

The launch, purportedly to put a satellite into orbit, was to have been a centrepiece of the celebrations. The rocket disintegrated after some two minutes in what was seen as an embarrassment for the regime.

Monday's statement castigated Lee for comments last Friday, which urged the North's new leader Kim Jong-Un to reform agriculture and improve human rights.

It also took issue with the South's unveiling of a new cruise missile said to be able to reach any target in the North.

The North attributed its statement to the "special operation action group" of the military supreme command. Military officials in Seoul said they had no knowledge of such a unit, and no particular military movements had been detected in the North.

One analyst said the North, unlike in the past, may well follow up its threats now that major anniversary events are over.

"The easiest option will be cyber terror... but we may have to guard against actual terrorist actions," Cheong Seong-Chang of South Korea's Sejong Institute think-tank, told AFP.

"This time, I think there's a high possibility that the North's words, unlike in the past, will actually lead to specific actions."

Baek Seung-Joo, of the South's Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, said there had been "bad signs" across the border but did not elaborate.

"I'm worried about military provocations by North Korea," Baek told AFP.

 

[ubet]

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We are already in the midst of ww3. Cyber attacks by china, forces for 10 years in astan, all the "brush" wars we are probably in, men we have on the ground in Iran, the freedoms we let slip away because of 9/11 etc. Its just not the same playing field as the last 2. I honestly dont think we are going to see an armed force on force conflict between superpowrs (USA, Russia, China) like we did in the teens and forties. Russia and China will keep using the middle east as their way to keep us in conflict, while they keep stealing all of our National secrets and growing their economy and military; we on the other hand have a shrinking economy and military.

The "average" American citizen has way to much access to information and time on their hands. If we fire bombed whole cities nowadays, their would be a huge outcry. War is not run by Generals anymore, its run by politicians whos motives are not to win, but to line their pockets and get re-elected.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

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I think that since I was born in 1946, a lot of people have been sent off to fight and die, but we heven't been anywhere near actually starting WWIII.

The folks in charge were so terrified at the prospect of nukes being unleashed again that they intentionally perverted everything related to war.

Anything but another nuclear war.

<span style="font-style: italic">Anything.</span>

Nobody wants to fight a war because nobody wants to commit to the resolve it takes win one anymore. They are totally content to see enmities festering across borders for going on centuries, rather than to let them run their logical course and come to a conclusive resolution.

Courage and resolve in the face of adversity?

Naaahh.

All this is being done in the name of civilized behavior.

With due respect, civilized behavior had killed and maimed a lot of good and decent young people for a long time; too long and too many, maybe more in the end than letting the dogs loose would ever have done. I can't really say, but I do think the current system is flawed enough to warrant an overhaul.

The League of Nation gave us WWII.

The UN has rebounded from WWII and given us the War on Terror.

WWIII is lurking around the corner, and has been squatting there since before I was born.

During that lifetime, my generation and those that have followed have had that sword hanging over our heads, have watched our leaders back away time and again from that sword, and have willingly accepted the constant drain on our most promising young lives, our national wealth, and our very sanity.

I look around and see a world that's neurotic at best and maybe consitutionally insane at its very core.

Looking back, I think I'm beginning to see why, too. I admit it, I'm slow; but now, even I get it.

We soldiers have paid, and continue to pay, the ultimate price for all of this.

I think it's long time past the point where we needed to take back the reins from our 'more civilized' bretheren.

Nobody hates war more than the men and women who actually have to fight it. But which is worse; war in its untempered reality; or the mess we have here now, supposedly in its stead?

If we weren't afraid to go out and clean the clocks and make the rubble bounce, do you really think we'd be taking the kind of crap from the Middle East, from OPEC, or from North Korea that passes for enlightened diplomacy in these days?

I think not.

Greg

 

[Killer Spade 13]

Re: Anyone else think "WWIII" is around the corner?

Well, I don't know if it is or not, but if it is, I think I'd rather die in a fire fight with my rifle in my hands than die in my bed the way our country is headed now . . .