Re:Musk Bets He Can Fix Aussie Power Woes in 100 Days or It’...
by mikeash on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:54AM
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Nothing says WWIII would have to be sustained. It's been generally expected for the past several decades that it would last a day or less.
Re:Musk Bets He Can Fix Aussie Power Woes in 100 Days or It’...
by mirimir on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:00AM
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Yes, I'm mostly joking. But sadly enough, rather darkly :(
And I misspoke in saying "WWIII". What I meant was a nuclear exchange between the US, Russia and their allies. That's almost happened more times than most people realize. The Cuban Missile Crisis did pretty much happen in public. What would that have looked like on Twitter?
Re:Musk Bets He Can Fix Aussie Power Woes in 100 Days or It’...
by lefstathiou on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:23AM
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To add to that, you need a large and consistent oil supply to sustain a war on that scale and it is no accident that the North American, South American and Middle Eastern oil regions are effectively all under US control.
There are only a few consequential military powers today that can seriously attempt to fight a major war outside their own borders while simultaneously enduring opposition: US, Russia, China, Germany, France, UK. All the next tier powers down from that can be trivially crippled, locked down to their own territory and prevented from substantially joining the battle. IE there can be no WW3 until or unless the world changes a lot.