• @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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    -236 months ago

    This isn’t happening in a vacuum.

    Hezbollah and Russia have a defense treaty with some others like Iraq and Iran. Russia and NK just signed one.

    Russia is losing in Ukraine, and none of the countries next to Israel can stand against a US backed Israel.

    WW2 was because some minor dude got shot and treaties pulled everyone in. What’s going on now could definitely make WW3 pop off, it doesn’t take much historically

    • AmidFuror
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      186 months ago

      TIL WW2 started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

        • AmidFuror
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          66 months ago

          I suppose if WW1 hadn’t happened, we wouldn’t have called it WW2.

          • @Daveyborn@lemmy.world
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            36 months ago

            I do think he confused 1 and 2 when he wrote that statement though. I actually think 2 wouldn’t have happened at all without the effects of 1.

        • Flying SquidM
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          26 months ago

          And the Wars of the Roses (amongst other things) set the stage for WW1. That’s just cause and effect, not some sort of profundity.

            • Flying SquidM
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              16 months ago

              Okay, but that’s all of history. One thing leads to another. The problem is, you can’t say what would have happened if things went differently.

              Would there have been no Nazi party if World War I never happened? Was Hitler’s rise to power in part due to his experiences in World War I and the economic crisis Germany was put in due, in part, to World War I? We have no way of knowing.

              Maybe if Victoria and Albert hadn’t married, World War I would still have happened, but been even worse because there would have been even greater enmity between the British and the Germans. We can’t know. The best we can do is write speculative fiction.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  16 months ago

                  Did you not read past the first paragraph? Everything else I wrote was about WWI and WWII. I literally talked about Hitler.