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A new world war could become “an end of civilization,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a live televised call-in show. Awareness of this should restrain international powers from engaging in global conflict, he added.
While giving his take on the risks of a new global conflict, Putin recalled Albert Einstein. “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," he quoted the world renowned physicist and a Nobel Prize winner.
He went on to say that “understating of the fact that World War III could be an end of the modern civilization”should deter the world “from any radical and highly dangerous actions that could [threaten] the modern civilization.”
In a reference to the Cold War era, Putin said that “it was a fear of mutual destruction” that has always prevented the international actors from any radical moves and forced them to respect each other.
The Russian leader then pointed out that recent US actions – in particular its unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with the Soviet Union – are nothing but an apparent “attempt to disrupt this strategic parity.” He argued that Russia needs to develop its own state-of-the-art weapons systems to retain this condition.
Putin also said that the ongoing policy of sanctions and endless accusations of the West against Russia is “counterproductive” and harms the West’s own interests just as it harms Russia’s. Western leaders believe it is a “means of deterring Russia’s development,” he said, adding that he believes “this policy is flawed.”
“One should not ‘deter’ anyone, including Russia, but should develop constructive cooperation instead,” the president said. This would in turn benefit everyone, and Western nations are becoming “gradually aware” of this fact.
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Hapa Africa tunangoja tu kunyonya nuclear fallout na hatusumbui.
Don’t think so
No way.
There’s a concept in international geo-political theory known as the “Thucydides Trap”.
Essentially, every 100 years or so, there’s a change of guard in global hegemony.
Greek city states-----> China--------->Roman Empire-----Westphalian system (balance of power) ------>British Empire------->Cold War( USA & USSR)-------> United States of America -------------->China.
[SIZE=6]When one great power threatens to displace another, war is almost always the result – [/SIZE]
[SIZE=6]The Roman empire declined and they accepted. So did the British Empire. The Soviet Union accepted the collapse of communism gracefully. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=6]I’m afraid the USA does not seem to accept that it’s over for “Pax Americana”. There is a real danger of confrontation with China.[/SIZE]
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Poor Africa …our greatest weapon on kneelogy …we pray to out Maker and plead with the powerful… We don’t have any defense mechanism aganist nuclear
And I dare say it ain’t going to happen. Watch what WILL happen: Trump is going to keep daring them and someone will police blog
I’m saying forget what you think Trump can do. Prepare yourself for a nut that cannot be controlled.
So sayeth the man currently engaged in grabbing land from a sovereign state. The irony. The stark irony.
I have a feeling WW3 will not be about bombs and guns. like the way Jesus was not literally the ‘king’ of the Jews. I feel it will end up being more of an ideological shift from the norm we are used to and accepting ‘new entrants’ like china as the new superpowers. Look at what the Chinese are doing in e.g. Africa- it’s all back to colonisation all over again. I think WW3 may become a war of information and economies
Our defense mechanisms are to steal from taxpayers,pretent to be staunch christians in the false belief we will enter heaven and enjoy fruits of theft until the end.
Refine this idea a bit…there’s a nugget somewhere in the mining…
summary kidogo:
+advent of cryptocurrency
+countries now opting for diplomacy first instead of war first (Kim and Trump)
+a more informed world we living in now
+open governance wave spreading all over the world
+Chinese lending as much as they can especially to Africans who are ‘tired’ of the white yoke
+there is a silent revolution happening in the minds of African youths in terms of accepting that they are an equally important race in the world.
can’t put it all in one sentence but I feel the tiny dots will join to form one big dot which will be the ‘war’, maybe
This has always been the case since time immemorial. There’s nothing new under the sun.
All countries leverage a mixture of hard and soft power to advance their interest.
But the fact of the matter, and the accepted international consensus, is that the global centre of gravity is shifting back to Eurasia where it has always belonged. Remember, the West has only been dominant since the 18th century (just the other day in historical terms)
The trick is how the current hegemonic power reacts to this inevitable change. If they do not accept change, I don’t see how war, in one way or another, can be avoided.
