I was curious how much of GDP Britain spent on the war effort during WW2.
A little under half according to some sources. And we can’t get 3% together in 2025.
Absolutely cooked.
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MAD may very well be getting the realest stress-test there has ever been in the next few years.
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I thought Trump was supposed to end all these shenanigans day one of his presidency? 
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Wake up, make a coffee, scratch my balls, feeling great. Then load up BBC News just in time to see Jerusalem being hit with rockets.
Cheers World. You’re shit.
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You actually want us to believe you scratched your balls after making coffee?
Pakistan should feel free to remove their self-imposed busy-ness with India and focus their efforts on Iran & Palestine.
I think these conflicts/flashpoints need to be more interconnected before we can start to consider any of this constituting a world war, and that we’re still a long long way off that.
Any world war would require a combination of the only nations that could be considered superpowers - the USA, China and to a lesser extent Russia - to be in conflict with each other.
I think Russia and China lack the necessary strong vested interest in the Middle East for that to be a flashpoint (Russia had one in Syria when Assad was running the show, but now?). At the moment, I don’t see that escalating from being largely a regional conflict.
China and the USA don’t really seem to give much of a fuck about Ukraine ultimately.
Nobody is going to try and stop China doing what they want in Taiwan outside of empty words. If China seized it nobody would have the will to take serious action about it and I don’t think it would really have vast global implications.
Trump doing his thing in America is a domestic matter, he can be as authoritarian and awful on domestic soil as he likes and China and Russia won’t give a shit, nor have the ability to do anything about it.
Without being rude, I don’t think anyone in the West gives enough of a shit about what’s happening in Africa for it to help trigger any sort of world war.
And with India and Pakistan, I’m not sure any of the three powers would be particularly interested in going in to bat for Pakistan if war did break out there.
Maybe I’ll end up looking like a prat in five to ten years, and maybe some of what I’ve said above is just wrong, but I don’t think we’re really particularly close to a world war. I think the only nations who could be considered superpowers have their sphere of interests and largely aren’t willing to fight each other over what each other do in their own spheres.
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I bet if the USA could have it’s time again in the 1940s/50s they’d have just let Taiwan fall.
The good news is if you do end up looking like a prat a good number of us won’t live to point it out.
I think we are on the path to a world war but there is still time to change course.
If it does happen I think it will start the same way as the first two - as a general European war that sucks the other conflicts into it’s orbit.
Despite Trump’s isolationism, a good part of his strategy does seem to revolve around a degree of compliance from and influence over western and central Europe. US involvement in a European conflict would come in some form, out of sheer self interest. Trump hasn’t even managed to disentangle the US from supporting Ukraine.
I think they would say they will if India also removes their busyness with Pakistan in Balochistan.
I mentioned both because they are led and governed in similar ways with a military and feudal elite cannibalising growth and keeping an ingenious and resourceful, creative population down.
2 countries with huge potential to be leading in their regions but held down by rigid thinking and authoritarianism
Britain is already absolutely finished in this scenario.
No industrial capacity, and a an old and sick population. There is a reason China doesn’t even consider it to be significant.
Is the Balochistan issue resolved if the alleged involvement of India is removed?
Making parallels with Kashmiri, there was a regulation that prohibited Indian government to improve the economic status of the state. However, if Pakistan government invest in Baloch state using the Chinese fund, the revolt will stop right away
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Better hygiene than scratching your balls before making coffee.
Mate, ball scratching is pretty much the first thing you do when you wake up, often before you wake up. That’s just how nature wired us.
https://x.com/jackposobiec/status/1934985261231849685?s=46
Europeans lap this bullshit up but will be complaining about Iranian refugees in like 5 years.
Pathetic
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No one is even considering the potential for it to be worse. It’s crazy.
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it struck me how Sinwar stayed and fought to the death with his people and comrades, while Netenyahu bounced to Cyprus at the first sign of Iranian missiles.
An interesting observation.
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Infantino has money signs in his eyes.
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