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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

IMO WWIII started with the invasion of Ukraine.

Now we have both US and Russia participating in war.

If china takes Taiwan then you’ll have the big 3 which will effect pretty much all other countries one way or another.

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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s not a world war, it’s a handful of regional conflict level wars.

A world war is defined by the scale and involvement level. The world wars reshaped continents and put most of the world on wartime production footing… We’re very, very far from that

Taiwan had the ability to kick off a world war, because the whole world relies on TSMC. But the fabs being built in China, the US, and the EU seem to me to be a compromise between the power blocks - once they’re completed NATO will probably just let China invade Taiwan without lifting a finger

WWIII isn’t a big concern of mine… The conditions just aren’t unfolding that way

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DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
But do 3 Independent Wars do count as a single world war?

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- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If it affects the world in an unavoidable way, why wouldn’t it?
  
  Before WWI, a war halfway around the world didn’t affect you. Now it raises prices within a week of starting.
  
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  - Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    In the US, prices jump the day before any conflict actually starts…
    
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- freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Are they independent? There are large coalitions, across various wars. And trade of all key resources and tech makes it all very connected to eachother and easy to get dragged in for many countries. Actively trying to stay a neutral country becomes harder and harder, we’re for sure heading in that direction.
  
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ChristerMLB@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Trump has taken the US as far out of the war in Ukraine as the American people will let him, it’s not great for peace, we should all have ramped up the aid a lot earlier, but to say that the US is participating in the war… that’s really stretching it.

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