Trump has said we are on the brink of WW3, aibu to agree with him?

But do you not think if the US pulls funding & military from Ukraine & the Middle East these wars cannot continue? Why are the UK giving weapons? Why have France given military aid to Israel this morning?

@GiveMeSpanakopita

The world has always been an uncertain place, iron curtain, invasions of eastern europe by the Soviets in the 50s and 60s, Cuba, mass formations of armour facing each other across the plains of Germany.
Constant wars in the ME, far far worse than what we see now, such as Iran/Iraq which saw millions die, Israel attacked by its neighbours - Jordan, Syria and Egypt...

China needs trade to keep its population happy, war will do the exact opposite.

Russia cannot even defeat a small nation like Ukraine, has to beg borrow weapons from Iran and NK, it would face defeat if it attacked a nato state, even without the USA.

Iran has plenty of old 70s style weapons which are ineffective now.

You say Biden is demented? have ever listened to Trump? the world will be a better place if he is defeated in November and a far worse place if he is not.

No I agree with you, it gives these hothead countries a valid excuse to retaliate against us. Russia in particular is I think a threat, and they have very long range weapons. We are no longer the country who ruled we the world, we are a tiny vulnerable island and are not strong in our defence.
I truly hope war doesn’t happen but I would say never say never.

Exactly! On a global scale at the moment we have Ukraine /Russia, the Middle East & also the threat of China & Taiwan..
This "I'm alright mate" attitude is so flippant.
All those counteries are intertwined & are divided into allies.. China, Russia, Iran are in bed together... Israel, U. S, U. K, Ukraine, France & Germany are pretty much an alliance... India seems to be on the fence..
Anything can happen & we cannot be blindsided..

Terrorist attacks are getting so common in Europe, some smaller ones go unreported in the UK press or are referred to as isolated incidents or "lone wolf" attacks... How many lone wolves make a pack?

Supply & fuel hikes will sky rocket which will directly affect every one of us.

Please can you tell me what wars were started under Trump as I’m struggling to think of any.

Am I the only one who feels the UK is vulnerable due to supplying weapons to both Ukraine & Israel?

YABU. He's a nob.
So are you if you believe anything that comes out of his trap.

"vulnerable" to what, precisely?

See, this is exactly what I meant by sowing discord.

Instead of looking at the bigger picture - the growing instability of the world and the shift from unipolar US hegemony to multipolar Russia-Iran-China - I've got PPs nitpicking on tiny irrelevant gotchas according to their own personal political biases.

This is why so many of us can no longer open our eyes to see what's actually going on on a global level. Social media has shrunk our perspective and locked us in tiny bias-bubbles so tight that it's actually breaking down our ability to think critically and strategically.

Who cares WHO did the actual Afghan fuck-up? My wider point - the growing instability of the world and the shift from unipolar US hegemony to multipolar Russia-Iran-China - is the true issue here.

See, this is exactly what I meant by sowing discord.

Instead of looking at the bigger picture - the growing instability of the world and the shift from unipolar US hegemony to multipolar Russia-Iran-China - I've got PPs nitpicking on tiny irrelevant gotchas according to their own personal political biases.

This is why so many of us can no longer open our eyes to see what's actually going on on a global level. Social media has shrunk our perspective and locked us in tiny bias-bubbles so tight that it's actually breaking down our ability to think critically and strategically.

Who cares WHO did the actual Afghan fuck-up? My wider point - the growing instability of the world and the shift from unipolar US hegemony to multipolar Russia-Iran-China - is the true issue here.

Uh, yeah, @GiveMeSpanakopita. You do understand that the withdrawal was negotiated by Mike Pompeo under Trump, right?

You blame Biden for Afghanistan?

The Trump administration did a deal with the Taliban, they excluded the actual Afghan government and signed a deal telling the government to release 5000 Taliban prisoners.

Am I the only one who feels the UK is vulnerable due to supplying weapons to both Ukraine & Israel?

Further to my last comment. I would add that from the Iranian perspective, now is the perfect time to be starting something.

Between 1945 and 2008, the US acted as the police force of the world. It was dragged rather reluctantly into this role (because for most of its history the US has been protectionist and inward-looking) but did the job fairly well leading to decades of relative global stability.

Obama return the US to its more protectionist and inward looking foreign policy. Trump changed this up a bit, in that he sought to use an iron fist in velvet glove style of diplomacy (or threats, depending on your perspective) rather than force to keep global peace, with mixed but on the whole temporarily positive results. Biden returned to the Obama-style protectionist foreign policy, but did so very clumsily (see: Afghanistan), leading to further ME instability.

Ever get the sense that the world is generally less stable than it was in the 2000s? Yeah, there's a reason for that.

Now, from the POV of Iran Russia and China, the American policeman is asleep at the helm. Like the drunken leaders of the dying USSR, Biden is demented and his role is being done by his family and a military clique, who reputedly do not sing from the same hymnsheet. So now's a great time for the new multipolar superpower of Iran, China and Russia to be starting military shit - which they all are.

Couple this with widespread online disinformation and sowing of discord amongst the once culturlaly stable nations of Western Europe, and I believe our children and certainly our grandchildren will live in a time of declining wealth, greater poverty and war for resources. This has already begun, as we all know if we open our eyes and look around.

Personally I got my kids learning Mandarin and Arabic 8 years ago. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em and we all need to look after our own.

Not ww3, but a serious conflict in the Middle East which could have worldwide consequences.

Oil prices could shoot up, and we still use a lot of oil, plus the very real prospect of terrorist activity.