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War is likely.

Lame, not boring. Some people believe in war.

Supposedly this time it was pride that has prevented peace, I would say on both sides.

With Russia on Nato’s side, there would be another Eight-Nation Alliance and China would be split, however ethical that would be.

Btw, Ex-Nato head George Robertson said Putin wanted to join alliance in the early 2000s but did not want to wait in line with ‘countries that don’t matter’

Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.

George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary who led Nato between 1999 and 2003, said Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of western Europe. “They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time,” he said […]

https://feddit.org/post/16410454/8030302

I think at the deepest level the elite still believes in the Iliad and they want this war.

Big war in 2027

https://feddit.org/post/16373509

Chat message scanning can come in October, age verification is also introduced in various countries. Things are getting serious.

There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Unfortunately not. It was mentioned in a lemmy comment.

Supposedly there was a ruling in California that made them responsible.