04-20-2018, 12:05 PM
(04-20-2018, 10:30 AM)grampahol Wrote: Our world is far different from the world our grandparents and great grandparents grew up in .China has little interest in invading because we're huge customers of the goods they manufacture and sell to us . A global war, the kind like WWII would make no sense and the same reason we don't invade them. If either nation were to attempt to invade it would disrupt our economies so much that neither nation would have enough of a customer base left to sell anything to .
In these respects the world is a much safer place than just 70 years ago . Now we fight proxy wars in places that are too far from our shores to affect our daily lives and only a very small percentage of our population is even involved.
This X 1000.
Also corporations are becoming more powerful than governments and most large corporations have factories or other facilities all over the globe.
There will always be local skirmishes over religion, ethnicity, or a border between two countries, but I don't think there will be any more huge international wars ever again. The North China Sea seems to be a bit of a hot spot, but I predict that will get resolved without a huge military conflict.
When industry and commerce became more global then it meant EVERYONE loses in a big war.
