Is War imminent?

[anotheoldgit]

There is unrest all over the World, Middle East, with Palestine, Israel, and Iran, also some parts of Africa, to name just a few.

Plus the fact that the financial position of the world is also in turmoil.

Aren't these the sparks that could set off another World War?

[Ann]

Blooming hope not ............. :-(

[Philtaz]

Doubtful, as a true 'World War' would in all probability herald the end of mankind.

I don't believe we're quite at the brink just yet.

[emmie]

No, but i will get my tin hat out of storage just in case. I wonder where i can put the Anderson shelter, its a bit cramped here as it is.

[craft1948]

Depends if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il totally lose the plot........

[cathfromsaron]

its the same amount of simmering religious unrest as always! world war it won't be!

[Lonnie]

Yes war is imminent, war is always imminent, the only thing to stop it is strength of arms, and reason.

It's always a question of 'when'.

[anotheoldgit]

The Dole queues would soon disappear then, but could you see the service industry that this country now has, turning over to a manufacturing industry?

The women working on the farms, do you think the farmers would provide crèches for the infants?

[emmie]

Going on the question i asked if there was WW3, would people fight and the majority, at least on here said no. And for those who think that the multitudes who now live in Britain from overseas, would fight for Britain, then i think you would be on a hiding to nothing.

[Philtaz]

The dole queues would soon disappear?

EVERYTHING would disappear in a global thermo-nuclear war!

[DTCwordfan]

Including Bolton? ^

[emmie]

Phil, which is what i also said at the time, and comments were much in the vein of don't be stupid...

[seadogg]

Major conflicts like WW1 and WW2 tend to happen when the belligerents are allied to powerful allies. Hopefully those powers will not allow smaller wars to escalate as they have too much to lose. Fingers crossed.

[emmie]

this is a different world, there are huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, and more countries than ever have them, so one would hope that they would counteract the other, but you could never discount the rogue country, or lone madman for setting one off. My this is cheery

[ichkeria]

There's been unrest all over the world more or less constantly for generations.
America declared a "war on terror" 10 years ago.
Who do you envisage a World War being between?
I am not saying you are wrong, just intrigued to probe your question further.

[Old Salt]

Armed conflicts have, and I suspect always will, be with us. Man just doesn't seem to be able to 'reason and compromise, in good faith.'

But hopefully, never again will we see the all of the major countries on this overcrowded planet, with rapidly depleting resources, chose up sides and wage global war.

I managed to survive one, and I don't wish to see another.

Old Salt

[DTCwordfan]

The Diameter of the Bomb

~ Yehudi Amichai


The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried in the city she came from,
at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning her death
at the distant shores of a country far across the sea
includes the entire world in the circle.
And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of God and
beyond, making

a circle with no end and no God.

[Old Salt]

And I also survived Korea and Vietnam and the very frightening Cold War scares (especially The Cuba Missile Crises) without any significant damage; physical or mental

OS

[boxtops]

I remember Cuba - that was extremely frightening at the time.

[isitjustme]

It seems to me that an awful lot of people are unaware of, or just don't care about Turkey and its attitude to Cyprus and Israel. I am not saying that it could lead to a full scale war, as such, but it could turn really nasty in the Med.

[Old Salt]

Same here Boxtops,

I was locked up in an underground war room in London, for over a week; had marine guards with machine guns all around us. The intelligence messages and reports were even more scary when the were put-together-as-a-situation-report. And we were constantly creating regular situation reports.

Seems to me, isjustme,

Ever since I can remember, those areas have been a powder keg with a short fuse. My ship was patrolling in the same vicinity as the USS Liberty, which
got shot-up pretty bad by the USA's allies, the Israelis. We were virtually unarmed, except for a machine gun and a few shot guns and a some side-arms. So we went into Malta, with them until things settled down a bit.

But I still remember nearly every month, one of someone was sabre rattling or posturing or their planes were making a low level run at us.

No wonder I almost got an ulcer. I was very glad when I eventually got reassigned to a shore station in England.

OS