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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sure, currently, but I think we're eventually due for another great hate, but this time the war won't be based around ideaology. Its going to be based around economies and resources.
This planet cycles through times of relative peace and massive blood letting like my heart pumps blood.
I'm pretty much resigned to a major conflict in my lifetime.
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I have to think the world is way too internationally tied together for the world to go to war cause we're "due for one" ... Resources are usually acquired though deals and contracts, I don't think superpowers really go to war over it anymore. Economically, they rely on each other so I can't see war helping either country ... and I'm pretty sure they are intellectual enough to realize that. Major businesses from GE to Johnson&Johnson to Intel to IBM have major business centers in both countries. Much of USA is made up of Chinese people who make a major impact on the American economy, can't see going to war just cause "we're due for one" is gonna fly there. There is also the influence of social media and social figureheads, from a Chinese athlete like Yao Ming, a movie star like Jackie Chan or other respected positions that have a ton of influential influence.
Besides, more and more, it seems international matters and pressures are slowly coming from influential "pop culture" social figurehead like a Sergei Brin rather than even government itself.