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322 points atomroflbomber | 3 comments | 03 Aug 23 08:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lelag ◴[03 Aug 23 09:52 UTC] No.36983601[source]▶
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
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treprinum ◴[03 Aug 23 11:07 UTC] No.36984116[source]▶
There is still the threat of WW3...
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ajmurmann ◴[03 Aug 23 15:28 UTC] No.36987228[source]▶
Nuclear war, maybe. WWIII would require two global superpowers, not a global superpowers and a country with the GDP of Greece that's struggling to remain a regional power.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[03 Aug 23 16:06 UTC] No.36987770[source]▶
> WWIII would require two global superpowers,

No, it wouldn’t. You can have a World War without global superpowers on both sides (you need a wide geographic alignment of such power to, balanced for the relative difficulty of force projection on both sides, reach aggregate near-parity across a widely geographically dispersed set of conflict theaters, but you can do that with a global superpower on one side and a coalition of major regional powers in different regions on the other.

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2. ajmurmann ◴[03 Aug 23 20:41 UTC] No.36991529[source]▶
So it's NATO against Russia, Belarus and who?
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3. dragonwriter ◴[03 Aug 23 21:06 UTC] No.36991917[source]▶
Should it expand beyond a major European war: Iran, Syria, North Korea, China are among the more obvious potential out-of-region Russian coalition partners; there's also quite a number of situations in Africa that could also be plausible areas of expansion of the same geopolitical conflict.