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Ask HN: Is the World Moving Towards World War 3

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International conflict and rearmament seems to be in ascendance, while multilateralism, the rule based order and Pax Americana is in decline. Russia is slowly consuming its neighbours. Europe is rearming, openly calling out Russia as its enemy. Japan and China is in a war of words over Taiwan and Japan announces record defence spending. The US is massing its fleets in the Caribbean blockading Venezuela, while making a claim on Greenland. Thailand and Cambodia is firing at each other. In parts of Africa there is coup after coup.

It feels as if whatever limits existed on countries to use armed force have weakened.

>Russia is slowly consuming its neighbours

Why plural?

>the rule based order

What? By which rule the US invaded Iraq in 2003? By which rule NATO changed the borders of Serbia?

> Why plural?

Belarus and Ukraine

> What? By which rule the US invaded Iraq in 2003? By which rule NATO changed the borders of Serbia?

None of those instances are wars of conquest, of annexation of a sovereign country by military force or of trying to erase a national identity.

How's the Putinesque Koolaid tasting, protomolecule? Good enough to grab a rifle in the name of the fatherland? Or do you just do internet battles? I'm surprised you're allowed on the broad internet. Are you VPNing or are you some sort of silovik?

Your cowards launched quite a bunch of drones and missiles at Kyiv last night, targeting civilian infrastructure. Lots of civilians dead. The civilized world will never forget this.

> Why plural? Belarus and Ukraine

Whoa there is a whole lot more!

Chechnya to begin with. And South Ossetia i Georgia. And Transnistria In Moldavia.

They take what is possible and need to be stopped.

Of course. I forgot, when discussing Russian imperial ambitions you need to be specific about which stage you're referring to. I was referring to the latest (late) stage.

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