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- South Korea invades North Korea after nearly fiftey years of fighting over who's right and who's wrong.
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None of our business.
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- Iran goes nuclear, and Isreal takes them out. Iran launches a nuke into Isreal and Isreal fires back. Glass parking lots spring up all over the middle east - and the world's oil supply is cut off.
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If both Iran and Israel disappeared tomorrow, the worlds oil supply would not be too severly impacted. But that's not going to happen. Irans theocracy is ending thanks to a youth culture revolution (largely because of the internet) which may have already succeeded if not for the poor political strategy of this administration and the invasion of Iraq. Because of that, a swell of nationalism has stalled (or reversed) progress.
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- India and Pakistan, tired of fighting over Kashmir, decide that lobbing nukes at each other is perfectly acceptable.
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Mutually Assured Destruction is an effective deterrent. If it could keep the USA and Russia behaved, it can keep India and Pakistan behaved.
Yes, people are willing to die for a cause; but only if they believe they will ultimately win the conflict. In a nuclear conflict there can be no winners, no gains for either side. They're as human as any of us, and the same principles apply.
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- China decides to invade Hong Kong and restore it to the mainland there.
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China already owns Hong Kong. Did you mean Taiwan? IMO this falls into the "none of our business" category. Sad for them, but strategically irrelevant to us.
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By this time WWIII has broken out. I'm going way out on a limb here.... But then Japan - having all of it's oil cut off because of what's going on in the middle east - attacks what's left of Russia, or perhaps invades Alaska.
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Why? Japan would obviously lose any such conflict. It's inconcievable that they believe they could conquer either. And the motivations isn't really there either. They are a small island nation. They could power themselves with hydro, geothermal, wind power, or nuclear power. They already have electric cars and a great public transport system, and don't really need oil. They could adjust to an oilless system cheaper than they could wage a war.
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Germany decides to rearm itself, and the French who haven't showered since WWII start getting jumpy to they launch a pre-emptive strike at Germany.... England suffers from the nuclear fallout and starts basting away at France and Germany. All Europe is now at war, as is the middle east and Asia.
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Ok, well, (as you admitted) you're kinda just being silly here. The EU are now a collective cooperative interdependent block and they will not be attacking eachother. ever.
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Meanwhile the US is gonna mind it's fucking business while the the governments of fifteen differnt countries fail because they are no longer being supported by the United States.
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Unlikely, and even if so, any government that fails because the US stops propping it up is illegitimate anyway. Let the citizens of other nations govern themselves and make their own choices and the US will end up less animosity / fewer potential terrorist threats.
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I'm not always proud of what the US does. But who else is gonna step up to the plate? The British Empire is gone, France is afraid of it's own shadow, Germany doesn't want to start shit, and Russia is just down and out right now.
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The premise is false. Noone has to 'step up to the plate', if that means dropping bombs. Stop playing world police and the world will stop regarding us as facist bully pigs.