War?

[nightshade]

Do you think another world war is coming? With so many imports and exports now, how will people adapt to a world without all of that? Should we be preparing for it now?

I do worry that there will be another world war, and with the advances that have happen, it will be so much worse. I'm not sure either that if men were made to sign up to fight that weren't already enlisted that they would be very unprepared for it.

 

[WillowFromBuffy]

We'd definitely get occupied again for oil and minerals. Sweden would just sit there and pretend nothing was happening.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

 

[thrasherpix]

The question to me is not if but when. I think we live in a bloody, violent world right now, but when I look at history I marvel that we're not even worse. Taking populations into account (that is, the death tolls were typically lower in previous centuries only if you don't take the population into account, if you do adjust for population then they were far more deadly and violent than today), I don't think the world has ever been as good as it is now, at least not generally speaking.

And if some great solar flare were to hit, which is all too possible, destroying our networks and as a result causing power plants to shut down, dangerous so in some cases, and essentially society collapses, then I expect humanity to revert to savagery fast (that is, become overt rather than hidden as it is now), both on an individual and national level. I've seen what putting people in survival situations do, and I know neurological research shows it as well. The brain changes in those situations, and with it, our behavior.

 

[RomanticSoul]

What do you mean coming? We are already in it. It's just taking a different shape this time than the last 2 WW. You can even predict which countries get hit first/next, just follow the money. Find out which country doesn't have a Rothschild controlled bank yet. There aren't many left. One was Syria, I wonder if anything happened there in recent years. Wasn't there war? Either way, they have a Rothschild controlled bank now. Weird huh? 2 others are Iran and North Korea. Are those countries in the spot light lately?