I don’t know if I’m going crazy but looking at the current situation in the world … please tell me that I’m overexagurating

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
        31·
        6 months ago

        It’s bad for certain parts of the economy and it is dangerous for current rulers.

        • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          Economy is cyclical, always either heading into a recession or coming out of a recession. A capitalist society requires constant money flow for expansion which is why interest rates are lowered during recessive times to stimulate expenditure and raised during peak to control expansion. World wars put spending into overdrive.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, I’d tend to agree. The war is digital and economic. Countries are hacking each other’s infrastructure and commercial systems, mass propaganda and spying with troll farms, tiktok and even hardware. Plenty of fighting with sanctions, tariffs, bans of sales of technology.

      Fighting for land right now is really unnecessary, however depending on how well humanity survives climate change I’d expect to see some arguments going in to drilling and mining places like Greenland, the arctic and antarctic. China is already setting up shop in Antarctica.

      We are also all tied together economically in so many different ways that a war between major powers would be economically devastating for everyone before the first shot is fired, particularly for the countries that ceded most of their production to other countries that might be hostile in war.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    211·
    6 months ago

    The situation today is nowhere near as bad as the Cold War.

    Think of it this way. All of the 0.01%ers in china, USA and Russia share the same tastes and values. Think any of them are really hot to blow up their nice places on the Rivera?

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 months ago

    Anything could happen of course, but I don’t see this as a likely scenario myself. What’s more likely is that we return to bloc competition similar to what we saw during the Cold War. Except this time it’s going to be G7 against the BRICS.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    When Trump was elected again I spent about 3 weeks living with an existential dread I’ve never in my life felt before.

    Whenever it happens, it is coming.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    You never really know, it’s plausible. But I doubt it. It doesn’t seem any more likely now than it did in 2016.

    Ceasefire in Gaza for a minimum of 6 weeks (if I understood the news correctly) is huge. That conflict might be close to over if we’re lucky.

  • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
    41·
    6 months ago

    So, WW3 won’t happen until the oligarchy says it’s time. Not sure why now would be the time, but I suppose it could be. There’s like a billion people in the world making a dollar a day, a few billion people only making a few dollars a day… That’s a few billion dollars per day the oligarchy almost certainly thinks belongs in their pocket instead. So I could see them continuing to squeeze the world for every last drop of wealth, which I think will cause unrest in a lot of places. Add climate change to that and I think things just get bad everywhere for most people. Obviously the oligarchy will just go to their islands, yachts, bunkers until a few billion are dead and they can pop back out with their private armies ready to “save” the world.

    A lot of people think they need us to buy their trinkets, but the entire consumer middle class is only like 100 years old, and I think was only designed to keep us distracted while they plundered the world. Now that a small handful of people own everything, and soon enough robots and AI will replace most human labor, it’s mission accomplished and we can go back to feudalism where they are gods and everyone else is slaves.