• @RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world
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    169 months ago

    Uhm, doofus, nobody’s gonna fight in ww3.

    Bombs get launched and we ALL die, that’s how ww3 is faught.

    It’s frightening how little the younger generations understand about nuclear war.

    • @underisk@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      There have been plenty of wars fought in the age of nuclear weapons that, strangely enough, have not resulted in the use of nuclear weapons. There’s a few of them going on right now, in fact!

        • @underisk@lemmy.ml
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          19 months ago

          Which nuclear powers do you foresee entering into direct conflict in a theoretical WW3 scenario based on current conditions?

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            9 months ago

            In context of being a hypothetical world war, I do believe the current major powers, some of which have nukes, need to be involved. By definition, the answer to your question would have to be someone on this list.

            • @underisk@lemmy.ml
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              19 months ago

              I don’t see how the current geopolitical climate results in any of those coming into direct conflict rather than just continuing to wage thinly veiled proxy wars. The only WW3 scenario I can imagine right now looks more like an intensification of the current situation.

              • @Urist@lemmy.ml
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                49 months ago

                I do not see any world wars happening anytime soon either, given a somewhat rational (read non-suicidal) leadership of key nations. The original comment you responded to said that none would survive a nuclear total war, to which you replied that there have been wars fought in the nuclear age. This is true, even to the point of proxy wars between nuclear powers. However, they are not world wars, for which I think the original comment’s argument holds true. In effect the idea is that a world war would almost by definition have some nuclear power on either side.

                • @underisk@lemmy.ml
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                  -39 months ago

                  If a world war can only exist between nuclear powers then does the first one (and most of the second) not count?

                  • @Urist@lemmy.ml
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                    39 months ago

                    No, but a conflict pretty much has to include major powers to escalate to a world war and the major powers coincide with the nuclear powers either directly or peripherally. I get the sense that you are arguing in bad faith here.

      • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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        19 months ago

        Uhm, doofus, nobody’s gonna fight in ww3.

        There have been plenty of wars fought in the age of nuclear weapons that, strangely enough, have not resulted in the use of nuclear weapons.

        Which of those were WWIII?

    • @RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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      189 months ago

      Me looking at the handful of declassified missile defense sites and wondering what shit we have that isn’t known.

      Yeah… it’ll just be that simple Mr. Armchair General.

      • @tegs_terry@feddit.uk
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        29 months ago

        NATO gets assailed and everybody responds, which is the whole point. That’s an unwanted fission excess immediately.