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chaos0xomega wrote:
Pacific, the economies of various European powers were in many ways more intertwined prior to World War 1 than China and Americas are today, as we all know that wasnt enough to prevent the outbreak of the war, and I doubt that will be the case here, especially in a decade, as domestic manufacturing and re-industrialization are slowly becoming a thing in the US.

I like to thing that today world leaders know that wars like WW1 or WW2 were stupid bloodbaths that we should never repeat.

 Tyran wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Pacific, the economies of various European powers were in many ways more intertwined prior to World War 1 than China and Americas are today, as we all know that wasnt enough to prevent the outbreak of the war, and I doubt that will be the case here, especially in a decade, as domestic manufacturing and re-industrialization are slowly becoming a thing in the US.

I like to thing that today world leaders know that wars like WW1 or WW2 were stupid bloodbaths that we should never repeat.

Looking at our current crop of world leaders, I'm not going to go out on a limb and say their smarter then previous generations.

The counterargument is that wars today are fought in a manner completely unlike either world war, and while they may still be stupid, and bloody, they wont last nearly as long (unless its a counterinsurgency) or claim anywhere near as many lives (barring a nuclear exchange).

that sounds like wishful thinking chaos...

they said the same thing about WW1, and ww2...

war,

war never changes.

Possibly... but, simply put, its difficult to imagine a war fought on the scale of either world war lasting longer than a year, if that long. The very concept of it seems entirely alien to me, like I simply can't fathom what that would look like or how it would work given the capabilities of modern day militaries and technology, etc.It would also clash with the concept of 4th generation warfare, so yeah...

yeah, its hard to imagine, lets just hope it never comes about, because as you say, it sure will be worse then the last one.