it won't lead to anything, syria is just another proxy war.

you cant just keep punching the kid with the most nukes in the school in the head every day during lunch break and not expect to ever face reprocussions

you think that kid doesn't punch you in the head with equal frequency?

how often do russian missles from russian boats land in our alleys military bases while our people are cought up the the crossfire?

russia and american are the two sides of the same coin and have been for a while.

actually weve been at war with ourselves for the most part in the middle east since the 2000's

supplying weapons to the same people we kill

this situation is a bit different

i mean, when is american not making its own problems?

this is more like the gulf war but we dont actually know how its going to go because its been like 40 years

american's number one export: causing our own problems and fucking over the locals as we do

world is a bit of a different place now, hell if i know whats going to happen

i dont think we will see a repeate of the same

we might not have a world war but i dont think we are seeing the dominos fall in the same pattern

i wouldn't be surprised if the "syrians" attacked american bases in retaliation, only they are flying russian planes, speak russian, and fly back to a russian base.

i expect that to happen

that was kinda what i ment

its no different than the last what, 50-70 years?

then it has the oppertunity to escolate, maybe it doesent though

Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, the Gulf war, the whole conflict in syria, same shit, different day

syria is a different situation than the rest of the middle east was to us

and if you go back to the time of the soviet union the entire world was very different

you know the cuban missile crisis was started by us and we committed a literal act of war by blockading cuba? World didn't go into WW3, why would attacking a valid military target that russians should have been in in the first place be worse than that?

during the gulf war russia was a failing empire, now they are a relitively stable yet precariously placed country with more viable threats than they had in the past

shouldn't*

if the russians don't want to be bombed, they should be hanging out with people attacking american soldiers. the same applies to us.

and the ability for both our sides to wag a finger at the other for "attacking us" when we are hanging around their official enemy is why we chill out there

the number of bullets hasent changed much but the number of guns has increased, the eu is in a position to make choices that have a far more meaningful impact (be it good or bad) than they did during the gulf war, the chinese can get involved, while during the gulf they had issues they were sorting out, japan is militerizing (though i think thats a good thing), north korea is on the map and is a mouse carrying dynomite

if north korea makes the first move in any conflict, even china says they are on their own, so i wouldn't count NK in there.

i think its more a consern that they end up taking the second move

NK don't want war. The only reason they want nukes is so that no one invades them.

if the usa is involved in a conflict already of greater magnitude than its been in in 30 years than china wont be as intimidated and will give nk a longer leash, nk will see that and the fact the usa is more distracted as an oppertunity to be a retard

NK needs china, and why would china nuke the us? It would cause them take a major hit to their economy

i've become jaded to WW3 since literally every little thing is "this will be WW3!" and has been that way for basically all of my life.

you know how long "NK is gonna start firing off nukes!" has been around?

the last 10-20 years at least.

hell, why haven't we attacked them yet? aren't we like a year overdue for that now?

china can justify a self defense war much better than it can a world war, but can use a self defense to restructure its economy into a milierized one and low key shift out of consumer communism and into something more like NK but with actual weight behind it

and then need to start a war or kill its own economy?

china basicly uses slave labor already, thats actualy kind of a good place to start if you want a cheap and productive war machine

i think the thing is no one wants to be first, because the first shooter is the loser right now