alt Hacker News> But the entire economic surplus of Europe, Asia and North America was basically dedicated to (or extracted towards) making things that were reasonably expected to be destroyed within the year.
This is no longer necessary to inflict the catastrophic destruction we're really referring to when talking about a hypothetical WWIII
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Gibbon1 • yesterday at 9:58 PM
Things have changed since I was a kid. We've gone from saturation bombing and dropping nukes as the big kahuna to being able to do point assassination strikes.
Topical the Israelis just killed Khamenei.
Their argument is that, by definition, it can’t be a world war unless all economic surplus is dedicated to war purposes.
I tend to agree with both of you, and that by extension, we will never see another world war unless society as we know it collapses significantly.