I do have problems with humanity – Nothing to do with facts. 

I’m still waiting on this evidence the West can defeat China and Russia very patiently, unlike a drunken madman. But I’ve only seen sore assholes so far….no evidence at all! :)

Lucem (Just An Asshole) Ferre said
And ultimately these are nothing more than predictions. So nobody is really wrong.

True in a sense, but we only have two sides to the game. If you haven’t yet figured out the two sides, it’s tougher to imagine, but the facts are there,,, and there are two sides facing off right now…who both have multiple nations behind them…

scruffy said

Cabal said

The Notorious, L.T.B. said
[stuff about nuclear war]    

You don’t know the first thing about modern day warfare. 
First you should check into realistic numbers of warheads, and then you’ll see America are outnumbered et cetera et cetera    

nuclear war is categorically not modern warfare.  that is generation-and-a-half-ago warfare.  vintage 1970s.  

  

modern warfare [from our point of view, anyway] is semi-mechanized counterinsurgency, with air support.  

if it came down to proper armies in direct combat, then most likely it would be combined-arms maneuver warfare.  

  

nukes?  no.  

the thinking warrior is not bringin nuclear weapons into it.  waaay old-world.  

  

bottom line on the nuclear option, is that the us has [assumed-to-be] effective SLBMs, and nobody else does.  

at worst, everybody dies.  

at best, we get gutshot, but painfully recover;  the enemy is beheaded, and defeated in detail at our leisure.  

  

I guess I should of said futuristic warfare (months or years from now). That definitely won’t be the definition you said. That to me sounds like the attacks on weaker nations for resources or to overthrow a government. Kind of like what is going on with the proxy battles in the middle east or fighting in Ukraine. For right now they’re doing the old sanctions routine with each other – with a newly added computer hacking attacks that most don’t realize the danger to.

It appears nuclear war won’t be what it would have been in the cold war, but more of a – who can shoot the satellites down first and then move infantry into the lights out county to take over. Look at the the secret space launches in the past few months from Russia, China, and the States. They’re in a hurry for sure. I have to say the private non-Nasa launch recently from the States of the dragon was very impressive. Never seen anything like that one.

There’s still the risk of nukes being fired from the likes of Israel to damn near anyone around them, if they go even crazier. And Pakistan and India are almost a guarantee to fire off there’s at each other if shit goes down. North Korea is another one we can’t predict. 

It’s a scary time right now in the world.