What about the Balkans? After the fall of the USSR, that region could have blown up into a huge criss-cross of wars. From what I've read, damn near every nation in the Balkans has a grudge against at least one other Balkan nation; Albania/Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia/Hungary, Hungary/Romania, Greece/Turkey, Bulgaria/Turkey, Yugoslavia/all the ethnic groups inside it's borders.... get all these going at once, and you have a major land war....
Modern Total War
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Superlattice Monochromatic Light
Somebody figures out how to make a superlattice that emits monochromatic light, and how to make it put out the wavelength(s) they want. So you can leach coal ash or shale waste or phosphates or whatever and strip the U235 out, cheaply.
Then we're dead, most of us. The US loses 85% of it's population in the first strike, maybe the other northern hemisphere countries lose the harvest and the war is on.
Take away the cities and transport networks and we wind up fighting a WWII war and not necessarily winning it. But neither will anyone else. The third world would win a war with the OECD under those conditions, but they are no more united than the OECE. Nor is China interested, or India, or other III world groups. So just chaos and attempts by Japan and China and India-Pakistan to emigrate to someplace with food. Like Southeast Asia and Australia.
Let's hope that the world is too sensible for such wars.
Somebody figures out how to make a superlattice that emits monochromatic light, and how to make it put out the wavelength(s) they want. So you can leach coal ash or shale waste or phosphates or whatever and strip the U235 out, cheaply.
Then we're dead, most of us. The US loses 85% of it's population in the first strike, maybe the other northern hemisphere countries lose the harvest and the war is on.
Take away the cities and transport networks and we wind up fighting a WWII war and not necessarily winning it. But neither will anyone else. The third world would win a war with the OECD under those conditions, but they are no more united than the OECE. Nor is China interested, or India, or other III world groups. So just chaos and attempts by Japan and China and India-Pakistan to emigrate to someplace with food. Like Southeast Asia and Australia.
Let's hope that the world is too sensible for such wars.
Peter said:
Well, US "objected" to Israel invading Lebanon, building security wall etc.
Arabs objected to Israel existing and basically objected to everything Israel did since then.
EU objected to Israel building security wall.
UN objected to amyn things.
Interesing how they turned out.
"US aid that keeps the nations economy going"
That's the only thing that keeps their socialist economy from NOT running out of money. Bush I was willing to use that to rein in Israel on occasions; Bush II has advocated a Palestinian state, but hasn't publically said much against Sharon (of course, "unilateral withdrawal" from Gaza and the "road map" do have SOME similarities, so who knows?).
That's the only thing that keeps their socialist economy from NOT running out of money. Bush I was willing to use that to rein in Israel on occasions; Bush II has advocated a Palestinian state, but hasn't publically said much against Sharon (of course, "unilateral withdrawal" from Gaza and the "road map" do have SOME similarities, so who knows?).