←back to thread

1332 points Qem | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
bix6 ◴[] No.45267691[source]
Combined with the other ongoing conflicts it really feels like we’re in a WW3 era
replies(3): >>45267994 #>>45268165 #>>45268174 #
wmeredith ◴[] No.45268174[source]
I don't want to downplay the atrocities going on in the current conflicts, but this sort of comment deserves some perspective.

About 70 million people were killed in WW2, as of the present day about 1 million have died in the war Russia is waging against Ukraine and about 70k people have died in the Israeli/Palestine conflict. The horrors are most certainly real. But WW3 this era is most certainly not, that's thankfully off by an order of magnitude.

replies(3): >>45268235 #>>45268657 #>>45272279 #
1. ukblewis ◴[] No.45272279[source]
The China-US arena in Taiwan has not begun. What about the Russian “provocations” against NATO? I don’t think that it is necessarily clear that these conflicts are anywhere near WWIII yet but there are clear signs that we could be heading there