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the build up to WW3

  • 27-09-2013 01:54PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player


    Not a week goes by without this making the news. Syria, the Chinese at Japan, the Russians at the Americans, Iran against er.... everyone. Social unrest accross Europe. Israel being Israel. Apparently this was what the world was like pre- WW1.


    Opinions? Are we all being broken in to the idea of global war?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I suggest dosing the world's water supply with ecstasy and then sitting down and having a nice long chat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,933 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    I think the words of Einstein are in all world leaders mind , and this is what causes fear of actual starting war :-

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    No this is just posturing.

    Syria is just something for them to argue over, the Chinese need the west buying their crap so they can't attack anyone or they'll be broke within a week. Russia is weak, like small girl, I'm not too worried about them any more.


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This stuff is all new. It's not like America spent 2001 until last year in wars. There certainly weren't any wars between 1945 and the 1980s either. The nineties were so quiet in the Balkans the entire time as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    ScumLord wrote: »
    No this is just posturing.

    Syria is just something for them to argue over, the Chinese need the west buying their crap so they can't attack anyone or they'll be broke within a week. Russia is weak, like small girl, I'm not too worried about them any more.

    Putin is the worlds richest man. A nyet worth of $80bn.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    thebaz wrote: »
    I think the words of Einstein are in all world leaders mind , and this is what causes fear of actual starting war :-

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

    This indeed was prescient. I have noticed several lads sharpening hurleys of late. world domination is only a matter of time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Enda will shield us from the armageddon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Russia is weak, like small girl, I'm not too worried about them any more.

    The Russians may be like a nice wee girl at the minute, but when WW3 starts they'll become a vodka guzzling, krokodil shooting dominatrix hell bitch with nuclear weapons.

    I want to be on their side


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I don't think it will happen. Not in our lifetimes anyway. The horrors of WW1 and 2 and still too fresh in everyones memory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I don't think it will happen. Not in our lifetimes anyway. The horrors of WW1 and 2 and still too fresh in everyones memory.

    I remember Gerry bombing us every other night, never lost our spirit though, what ho!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    It's normal posturing and politics

    We are in fact further away from another world war than ever before


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    It's normal posturing and politics

    We are in fact further away from another world war than ever before


    Agreed, sure the Germans haven't even started making tanks yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Anyone wrote: »
    Agreed, sure the Germans haven't even started making tanks yet.

    they have taken Europe without firing a shot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Anyone wrote: »
    Agreed, sure the Germans haven't even started making tanks yet.

    Yeah, they are quiet


    Almost a little too quiet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    It's normal posturing and politics

    We are in fact further away from another world war than ever before
    Possibly, nuclear weapons kind of ruined good old fashioned war. I think that's why America is picking on less developed countries that don't have nukes. There's just no way the big boys can take each other on without it inevitably leading to WMDs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    Anyone wrote: »
    Agreed, sure the Germans haven't even started making tanks yet.

    You can sell your shares in armour. Drones, anti-air, anti-drone, and the new cuise missile yokes. Buy dem shares instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Looks its as simple as this, the first 2 world wars happened because ze Germans were trying to dominate Europe....its not like they are still trying to do that......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    they have taken Europe without firing a shot

    ....yeah.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    iDave wrote: »
    Looks its as simple as this, the first 2 world wars happened because ze Germans were trying to dominate Europe....its not like they are still trying to do that......
    You're not giving the Germans enough credit. WW1 wasn't the first time they caused a load of trouble. They had a part in the fall of Rome too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    hansfrei wrote: »
    Putin is the worlds richest man. A nyet worth of $80bn.

    None of that is confirmed though.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I suggest dosing the world's water supply with ecstasy and then sitting down and having a nice long chat.

    The flouride dummys'll be along in a minute to tell they already are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    GavRedKing wrote: »
    None of that is confirmed though.

    True. Who knows who has what though? He could be one of those poor millionaires on the NAMA dole for all I know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    iDave wrote: »
    Looks its as simple as this, the first 2 world wars happened because ze Germans were trying to dominate Europe....its not like they are still trying to do that......

    World War I cannot solely be pinned on the Germans. Every superpower had a hand in it.

    I don't think there will ever be another world war.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    china would not jump into war easily


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    World War I cannot solely be pinned on the Germans. Every superpower had a hand in it.

    I don't think there will ever be another world war.


    yes yes I know, I had a sore arm writing about the build up to WW1 in the leaving cert. Its a tongue in cheek comment


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    "never get involved in a land war in Asia"


    It's all FUD

    Fear Uncertainty Doubt





    also
    http://theinternationalcoalition.blogspot.ie/2011/07/noam-chomsky-top-10-media-manipulation_08.html


    and
    http://www.christymoore.com/lyrics/hiroshima-nagasaki-russian-roulette/

    Speaking always of the enemy who lurked across the seas
    While they crept in our midst like a carrier disease.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    ScumLord wrote: »
    No this is just posturing.

    Syria is just something for them to argue over, the Chinese need the west buying their crap so they can't attack anyone or they'll be broke within a week. Russia is weak, like small girl, I'm not too worried about them any more.

    I agree. They couldn't even stop John McClain and his son.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I don't think it will happen. Not in our lifetimes anyway. The horrors of WW1 and 2 and still too fresh in everyones memory.

    Eh? WW1 was still fresh in the memory before WW2, as was WW2 with any conflicts afterward, Korean war etc. Memories fade quickly when it comes to the politics of war, and its not going to be the politicians in the trenches in any case.
    Jonny7 wrote: »
    It's normal posturing and politics

    We are in fact further away from another world war than ever before

    This. The major powers having nukes means they're highly unlikely to come to blows. Plus I think we've gotten too used to modern comforts in the west


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    Shout Dust wrote: »



    This. The major powers having nukes means they're highly unlikely to come to blows. Plus I think we've gotten too used to modern comforts in the west

    Is there money in nukes?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    hansfrei wrote: »
    Is there money in nukes?

    Not as much as there is in property. Don't be like all those fools paying someone else's mortgages, sure it's dead money! Get on the merry go round now!


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