How far are we away from Armageddon?

[Spider-Dan]

1 is that it doesn't take quantity of land but quality of land. Being in the right place has everything to do with it.

Your statistics about the amount of "foreign-owned land" offer no assessment on the quality of the land they own.  And I'm not ready to accept "it's the best land, trust me" as granted.

The second thing is our military is eat up with foreign agents and even "Americans" who hate America so there's always inside help available to them.

If our military is already "eat up" with double agents and traitors, I don't see why the amount of land owned by the Chinese is even relevant.  If they already have people on the inside, what does it matter how much land they've legally purchased?

[Downunder Dolphan]

I just heard a brutally abrupt question that focuses everything:

Has WW III already begun?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I just heard a brutally abrupt question that focuses everything:

Has WW III already begun?

What is the basis for that question?  Russia's failed invasion of Afghanistan Ukraine. 

[Downunder Dolphan]

What is the basis for that question?  Russia's failed invasion of Afghanistan Ukraine. 

The ongoing, expanding war in Ukraine is one reason.

The ongoing, expanding war in the middle east is another reason.

China's war-gaming of a potential invasion of Taiwan for a number of years now (the moment they sense any kind of weakness in a USA response, they will go ahead and do it) is another. Plus their expansion of influence through the smaller Pacific islands, claims to South China sea that potentially threaten vital shipping routes.

North Korea and Russia signing a NATO-like pact they will go to war together if one decides to. North Korea is already supplying arms to Russia (along with Iran), and also increasing their rhetoric about the conflict with South Korea never really being over...

There are significant wars already in progress as well as tensions, dialogues are breaking down, and in their place lines are being drawn.

Perhaps the seeds have already been sown?

[Sunstroke]

^^^ With respect, my Aussie brother:

*1) There is always an "expanding" war going on somewhere
*2) Life in the middle east can usually be described as an "ongoing expanding war"
*3) China is always playing situational military wargames...as are we...as are most governments.
*4) We should fear an attack from N. Korea about as much as we fear an attack by Madagascar...and Russia can barely handle the Ukraine.
*5) There are always wars of some level of significance, and tension is a normal human condition.
*6) Perhaps they look like seeds...perhaps they look like normal pieces of dirt. Perhaps they look like little m&m's...I suppose it all depends how hungry you are.   

[Downunder Dolphan]

^^^ With respect, my Aussie brother:

*1) There is always an "expanding" war going on somewhere
*2) Life in the middle east can usually be described as an "ongoing expanding war"
*3) China is always playing situational military wargames...as are we...as are most governments.
*4) We should fear an attack from N. Korea about as much as we fear an attack by Madagascar...and Russia can barely handle the Ukraine.
*5) There are always wars of some level of significance, and tension is a normal human condition.
*6) Perhaps they look like seeds...perhaps they look like normal pieces of dirt. Perhaps they look like little m&m's...I suppose it all depends how hungry you are.   

Yeah I get all of that - but it's more to do with the intensity and the web that's forming which is more of a concern.

When was the last time that Israel had to fight a war simultaneously on four different fronts? (Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran)

Iran and North Korea supplying weapons to Russia - when did that ever happen? There's the possibility of Russia assisting their nuclear and ballistic programs in return.

Russia and North Korea has never officially signed a pact like that before. It sounds like Russia is trying to strike the same arrangement with China. If China start supplying 5th generation arms to Russia (who's dependence on outdated technology has been exposed in the Ukraine War), that's a massive shift in play.

This is a escalation over anything we have seen over the last 40 plus years (including both Gulf wars and Afghanistan).

[Denver2]

Yeah I get all of that - but it's more to do with the intensity and the web that's forming which is more of a concern.

When was the last time that Israel had to fight a war simultaneously on four different fronts? (Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran)

Iran and North Korea supplying weapons to Russia - when did that ever happen? There's the possibility of Russia assisting their nuclear and ballistic programs in return.

Russia and North Korea has never officially signed a pact like that before. It sounds like Russia is trying to strike the same arrangement with China. If China start supplying 5th generation arms to Russia (who's dependence on outdated technology has been exposed in the Ukraine War), that's a massive shift in play.

This is an escalation over anything we have seen over the last 40 plus years (including both Gulf wars and Afghanistan).

It’s a tough time in the world man for sure

Are closer now to extinction than at any other point?


Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

We are getting closer and closer to extinction but not because of any of the reasons listed.

We won't survive an ice free planet.  Human life will go extinct by 2200, possibly 2100.

[Downunder Dolphan]

Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than ever before:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/doomsday-clock-89-seconds/104864754

Atomic scientists have moved their Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid the war in Ukraine, the military use of AI and climate change.

It was reset on Wednesday to 89 seconds to midnight, making humanity one second closer to the theoretical point of annihilation than it was in 2024, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said.

The Chicago-based nonprofit created the clock in 1947 during the Cold War tensions that followed World War Two to warn the public about how close humankind was to destroying the world.

[Downunder Dolphan]

So, in the last we week we've heard from the USA that:

China plans to invade Taiwan in the next two years, so everyone else in the Pacific region should spend up on armaments (because the USA will do fuck all about it).

Putin said to Trump in a phone call that after targeting indiscriminately mainly civilian targets himself, and being embarrassed that with no other assistance Ukraine took out some major military targets with no civilian casualties, that he has to strike back (because he's embarrassed). Trump passed that on, but said nothing about stopping him from doing that, nothing about that it was justified payback to because of all of the evil shit his good friend Vlad had done leading up to this.

It's another excuse for him to be a TACO. Trump Always Chicken Out. He was a coward who dodged the Vietnam draft five times, and a pantomime bully, and that's the direction he has taken your country. Putin sees through it and doesn't give a fuck. Neither does Xi Jinping, or anyone else with balls.

You guys and your President are as weak as the beer that you drink. Defenders of democracy, freedom and decency, you are not. You are weak as piss. Corrupt as hell.

The moment that it was mentioned you would switch off electronic aids in the Joint Strike Fighters you sold to Denmark if the USA seeks to take over Greenland said a lot. As did the similar disabling of other equipment supplied to other "Allies" if they got involved with Ukraine's fight for survival.

You want us to boost our military spending budget? We should look doing it with France, the UK, Canada, or someone else. You can't be trusted anymore.

[Phishfan]

I've sensed your posts becoming more directed the United States citizens rather than our government. I have not said anything until now thinking I might be misinterpreting. That was until this post from you. Saying "you guys" are as weak as the beer we drink is a direct shot at our people in general as well as the specific people who visit this site..if you dislike us as a people so much feel free to stop watching our football and coming on to our fan sites. You seem to be going out of your way to follow the pastimes and news of a group of people you obviously have a dislike of.

[Spider-Dan]

His posts SHOULD be directed at US citizens.  It is the actions (or lack of action, by non-voters) of US citizens that put us in this position.  After decades of machinations to become the world's lone hyperpower, suddenly we've decided to throw everything in the trash, attack our allies while playing footsie with dictatorships, etc.

Don't get sore because someone from outside the country is stating the obvious.

[Phishfan]

It's not stating the obvious to say a group of people (which includes you by the way) is "weak as piss". That is an insult and personal. If you don't want to address it and actually want to defend it, maybe it applies.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

It's not stating the obvious to say a group of people (which includes you by the way) is "weak as piss". That is an insult and personal. If you don't want to address it and actually want to defend it, maybe it applies.

And the German people were ALL just victims of the Nazi government including those who voted for Hitler. 

[Spider-Dan]

It's not stating the obvious to say a group of people (which includes you by the way) is "weak as piss".

#notallAmericans

We all bear responsibility for the actions of our government.  To build on what Hoodie said, not many people are wasting their breath defending the "good Germans" in Nazi Germany who voted against Hitler.