Do you think we are heading toward another "World War"?

[Haole Girl]

I'm sorry if this has been asked... or if it is an idiotic question.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. No...we are not heading for WWIII.

Why fight us when they can wait for us to rot from the inside and collapse.

But who would be the major players, other then the U.S., and what issues would we fight over?

[leftstreet]

2. What makes you think we are?

:shrug:

[Haole Girl]

7. It seems like there are too many countries in turmoil, at once...

and too many countries with oil. Hope I'm just being paranoid.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

3. The world is clearly in a state of great flux

We will just have to see where it goes. But man does have a long history of internal strife and war.

[pinto]

4. No. I think we're looking at "fragmented" conflicts, alliances and cooperations globally.

Not all military, some basically economic. Not all with the same players, shifting allegiances. Realignments and the number of countries stepping up on the world stage seem to be the overarching trends.

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

8. Thanks pinto

These are sometimes the things I think about... when I should be asleep! :hi:

[ClassWarrior]

5. Why is your profile disabled?

NGU.

[Haole Girl]

6. Whoops. Didn't know it was. I'll turn it back on. nt

[Haole Girl]

9. I give up...

What is NGU?

:shrug:

[Iggo]

11. LOL...Never Give Up?

B-)

[Duer 157099]

10. Honestly, I don't. In fact, quite the opposite

The true fight is a class war, but that will be staged piece by piece, locally.

[cliffordu]

12. NO: As resources dry up it will be too expensive to take massive military

action as in previous conflagrations.

Because business reigns over silly things like international borders there will be small scale multiple front operations.

There will be info wars, water wars, energy wars....

You don;t think Blackwater was allowed to train and equip a couple hundred thousand mercs for shits and giggles, do you??

Blackwater is a proof of concept model for the future.

[krabigirl]

22. Govts will spend every last dime on their militaries IMO.

[Golden Raisin]

13. No. But I think a stronger

case could be made that we're headed towards some sort of Civil War in the U.S.A. I'm not young anymore and have never seen the country so sharply divided (and I include the Vietnam Era).

[BanzaiBonnie]

14. Absolutely not

We're heading for world PEACE.

[SoCalDem]

15. Not necessarily. Thanks to things like Facebook & You Tube, young people all over

are able to communicate, and we have to realize that in many countries, the Boomer generation will soon be gone, and a whole new crop of "connected" people will rise to the top.. In many countries in turmoil right now, the majority population is 25 and under.

They may not be as educated (as a whole), but they have access through their phones, to almost anything they would want to learn.

They may just decide that there is more to life than fighting & destroying stuff..

It's amazing too, to see just how many of these young people all over the place share common languages..English, especially.

The "odd-man-out" may just end up being the US, because we are quite isolated. I don;t think it;s changed much, but a while back there was some news report that said that only 7% of Americans even had passports. That number is higher now, but only because you now need one to go to Canada, Mexico & the Caribbean.

[Very_Boring_Name]

16. A world war between which states?

[Art_from_Ark]

17. With the right (or wrong) combination of stupid leaders,

ignorant masses, effective demagoguery, resource conflicts, population pressures, and economic turmoil, among other things, it is definitely possible.

[Haole Girl]

20. My thinking was along those lines

And how quickly one country followed the next with rioting & violence. How what happened in Iran, in the 70's, could happen to the entire region. I really hope I'm wrong.

[lunatica]

18. People are fighting their own governments, not other countries

There may be a few civil wars being started, but not World Wars.

[AngryAmish]

19. World War Z?

[krabigirl]

21. In a way, yes, but due to economic reasons, oil/food/commodity prices etc

[HughBeaumont]

23. If we have any enemies at this point, they're probably looking at the U.S. and saying "why bother?"

The American wealthy, corporations and their political puppets are killing this once great country one day at time just fine without a single bomb being dropped.

Income inequality is worse than it's been in nearly a century.

For 10 years, over 50% of the discretionary budget goes towards the military, mostly to fight occupations against nations that posed not even a remote threat to ANY American citizen.

Europe and Scandanavia are killing us in infrastructure repair.

Only the well-to-do to extremely wealthy's children can reasonably afford to go to college anymore. For the $100,000/year and under set, it's a Sallie Mae mountain on your backs until your mid-30s-40s!

Only the well-to-do to extremely wealthy can afford health care if they seriously need it. For the $100,000/year and under set, dying is actually the less expensive option. Other countries laugh at our asses.

Only the well-to-do to extremely wealthy can travel without having to save for 2-4 years to do it.

57 million people think "President Sarah Palin" is a great idea. The rest of the world thinks she's a comedy act. It's embarrassing.

We'd rather employ our Chinese slave state to make all of our crap than pay American workers even a dollar more an hour to do the same thing. Meanwhile, no one even THINKS to ask that the CEOs make a dollar more an hour LESS. In fact, we're giving these people tax breaks and moolah out the yin-yang twins while our incomes in real dollars decline.

We're not innovating because there's no money in it. We're not repairing our infrastructure because there's no money in it. There isn't any universal health care because there's no money in it. We can't make college cheaper because there's no money in it.

Peace? No money in it.

War? There's already a war, it's been going on for 40 years (or 400, depending on which historian you ask), it's against the working/middle/poor classes and unless millions do something about it (like, for instance, protest outside boardrooms and their gated communities), it's never going to END. In fact, it's only going to get worse as they get pushed.

Do you know who your real enemy is, America?

Here's a hint: You likely walked past his conference room or saw him on CNBC on Squawk Box.