this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
-30 points (29.7% liked)

News

23258 readers
2796 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Israel and Iran are fighting, pulling in Lebanon and Gaza. Russia and Ukraine are fighting, pulling in NATO countries. India is strengthening ties with Russia (via BRICS) and will probably get involved somewhere. North Korea is sending troops to fight with Russia, and so South Korea is considering getting involved on Ukraine's side. And China is getting ready to invade Taiwan which will definitely involve the U.S. That's... 43 countries at war or about to be at war, representing almost half of the world's population.

all 24 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Telegraph is a right-wing rag. Don't let it mislead you.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

And this guy doesn't sound like he has any real bona fides. He screams armchair expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axe

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Ooooh.... that's probably why I'm being down voted... That's disappointing.

[–] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The Telegraph is a right-wing rag.

That just means they're well-connected to the establishment and probably know something we don't.

For a mainstream British broadsheet to be running headlines like this (even in an opinion piece) is not a good sign.

This isn't clickbait. This is getting the public used to the idea of war.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That just means they’re well-connected to the establishment and probably know something we don’t.

Nonsense. The Telegraph just makes shit up all the time.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/08/14/lies-damned-lies-and-the-daily-telegraph/

They even make shit up about who writes their articles:

Edit: I forgot, they also dabble in denying climate change- https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker-archive/telegraph-column-goes-after-ipcc-head-ac/

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

That just means they’re well-connected to the establishment and probably know something we don’t.

Get out of here with that Qanon logic.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Agreed. Anyone with half a brain knows that it's going to be Canada that takes us into WW3. With the world distracted by all of the other hostile land grabs, Canada will seize the initiative and take Greenland since it's likely to live up to its namesake soon. This will set off Britain's alarm bells, and they'll take Iceland as a hedge against Canuck imperialism. And once Britain is distracted enough, Argentina will be all, "fucking finally" and take the Falklands. Never one to miss an opportunity for oil, the US will decide to preemptively seize Antarctica before the Argentines can expand further... just in time for a few ice shelves to break off and become free-floating. And while the sacrifice of Florida, the Mississippi Delta, and about half of New Jersey will be deemed worth it from the US perspective, the sea level rise will make the previous fighting over islands seem pointless.

All of this is ,of course, contingent on no one being idiotic/spiteful/ignorantly self-righteous enough to launch a nuke. That changes the calculus enough that no mere shitposter doing a prolonged ass-pull could realistically predict beyond "so much for mutually assured destruction."

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Canada will seize the initiative and take Greenland since it’s likely to live up to its namesake soon.

You've got it all wrong. Now that we share a land border with Denmark, the two of us will unite to form an unstoppable juggernaut of conquest and flannel.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm just looking forward to when we burn down the White House again.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I see someone unironically making a case for BRICS one more time, I'm going to have a fucking stroke. The main concern for the west at this point is ensuring they don't weaken Russia so much that it dissolves into an analogue of warring states China.

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "making a case"? Asking honestly. I don't know much about the conversation around it.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Talking about BRICS as though it's anything more than a joke.

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not literally a joke. I guess I'm just missing some context.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Aughhh I can feel the blood clot forming, it's about to ;hbhlzvhcx;pgaywy3r-bf

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

It's not a REAL world war until Germany invades France.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

India is strengthening ties with Russia (via BRICS) and will probably get involved somewhere.

India is abusing Russia as it has power over them. Its one of the few countries that will still do business with them on some level, and they are demanding (and getting) absurdly low prices for Russian goods. India is paying and settling in Rupees (India's currency) and Russia is now has an excess of them. The only place you can spend Rupees is on Indian goods.

[–] DmMacniel 2 points 4 days ago

Whelp, time to stock up supplies then?

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

That's cool. Better to end it now than to wait for climate change to starve us all to death.

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or... America might be about to get involved on Russia and China's side, instead of against them, depending on how the Presidential election goes.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think that if he wins and if he orders the military to join Russia, one of the Joint Chiefs will end his presidency with extreme prejudice.

Then we will have an entirely different can of worms opened.

[–] DmMacniel 10 points 4 days ago

I hope, when this case arise, that they have the guts to pull the trigger.