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To think that global warfare is going to happen any minute now?

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franceslucia · 02/09/2024 22:35

And that Western countries are not doing enough to promote peace between nations. It could take any of the international tensions to spark global warfare. Russia, China and its neighbours, Israel. Palestine and the Middle East.

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DoYouReally · 02/09/2024 23:26

Nope and even if it were to happen, there isn't a single thing you or I can do to stop it, so I don't give it as second thought.

Beezknees · 02/09/2024 23:23

People said this when Putin invaded Ukraine. Still waiting..

HelloMiss · 02/09/2024 23:22

Oh yes I remember 'threads' at school!

HowardTJMoon · 02/09/2024 23:21

Russia's spent a year trying, and failing, to conquer Ukraine. Its military has been shown to be nowhere near as capable and well-equipped as it tried to pretend it was. If it can't even win in Ukraine it would stand no chance if it tried to attack NATO. More to the point there'd be no political or financial profit for Putin or his backers to do so. Sabre-rattling is much safer.

What's going on in the middle east right now is appalling but, sadly, nothing new.

Allie47 · 02/09/2024 23:07

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 02/09/2024 22:50

What was that film they showed us at school? Threads? The one about nuclear war and people getting vaporised?

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I loved this 🤣 it's been the same since the end of ww2, it's always on the verge of kicking off again.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/09/2024 22:57

I agree with those saying it has always been like this. There is always a war bubbling up somewhere.

mambojambodothetango · 02/09/2024 22:54

I don't think you're wholly wrong.

Just4thisthreadtoday · 02/09/2024 22:51

HelloMiss · 02/09/2024 22:40

I really fancy some shortbread now....

@HelloMiss

with a vat of tea!!

Fizzadora · 02/09/2024 22:51

I vaguely remember reading something a while ago that since the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 ( might have been even further back than that) there had only been one day where there was no conflict recorded anywhere in the world.
Fucking men with their fucking religions and egos. Tossers.

TheShellBeach · 02/09/2024 22:50

You again!

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 02/09/2024 22:50

Tel12 · 02/09/2024 22:48

When I was at school we were expecting the 4 minute warning, the time we were supposedly getting in advance of a nuclear bomb attack. That was so many years ago the old Queen was actually quite young! Chill.

What was that film they showed us at school? Threads? The one about nuclear war and people getting vaporised?

Just4thisthreadtoday · 02/09/2024 22:49

SecretKeeper1 · 02/09/2024 22:38

Any minute now? FFS I’ve just laid on the sofa with a cuppa and some shortbread, I’m really not in the mood for this.

🤣🤗

BankHolidayReset · 02/09/2024 22:49

I do wonder why people look to us to deal with the feral fuckers of this world who cannot behave

Tel12 · 02/09/2024 22:48

When I was at school we were expecting the 4 minute warning, the time we were supposedly getting in advance of a nuclear bomb attack. That was so many years ago the old Queen was actually quite young! Chill.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 02/09/2024 22:48

MagePaige · 02/09/2024 22:45

I don't think it's always been like this because the major change is the withdrawal (or decline, however you see it) of America from Europe. The global security architecture is changing/under threat.

Like the British empire.
And all empires before that.
Rise then fall then shitshow then somewhere else rises

Gone12 · 02/09/2024 22:47

What a happy bedtime thread.

MagePaige · 02/09/2024 22:45

I don't think it's always been like this because the major change is the withdrawal (or decline, however you see it) of America from Europe. The global security architecture is changing/under threat.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 02/09/2024 22:45

As pp have said this is not new.

We now just know more about it because of the internet and 24/7 news.

Years ago it was the paper if you read it and the 6 o'clock news if you watched it and people were largely oblivious

Taking the longer view this is probably the least violent the world has been since we started sharpening sticks and hurling them at each other tens of thousands of years ago.

History is just a big list of wars and atrocities.

We may very well wipe ourselves out one day. We are bloodthirsty apes.

TheABC · 02/09/2024 22:44

Why is it just the job of Western nations?
I'm sure that the Arab nations are taking a keen interest in their regional security whilst Turkey, China and India are eying up Russia.

In the meantime, I'm going to make flapjacks. If WWIII breaks out, I will face it with a full belly.

longdistanceclaraclara · 02/09/2024 22:42

How old are you op? Genuine question because it has always been like this.

Clementine22 · 02/09/2024 22:40

SecretKeeper1 · 02/09/2024 22:38

Any minute now? FFS I’ve just laid on the sofa with a cuppa and some shortbread, I’m really not in the mood for this.

Ahaaaa made me chuckle 😊😂😂😂

Other posters are right though … the world is always on the brink of war

PolitePearlMoose · 02/09/2024 22:40

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HelloMiss · 02/09/2024 22:40

I really fancy some shortbread now....

Octavia64 · 02/09/2024 22:40

Russia is already at war. With Ukraine.

There is already war in the Middle East and so far it hasn't spread and we're nearly a year in now.

Don't see why we'd get a world war now. Last year looked more likely.

HelloMiss · 02/09/2024 22:39

I don't think you are going to stir up much panic here on mumsnet OP, perhaps try Netmums