Will There Be War? (Are World War III and the Second Civil War on the horizon?)

Will There Be War? (Are World War III and the Second Civil War on the horizon?):

"An American credit downgrade. Europe in turmoil. Israel menaced by an Iran with nuclear ambitions. Mexican drug cartels run amok. Chinese ghost cities. With each passing day the news gets worse.

To my amateur historian's eye, we seem to be drowning under the greatest flood of crisis, both international and domestic, since the 1930s. We all know how that ended. Will it be possible, in terrible 2010s, to resolve the world's problems without war? I'm not so certain.

About a decade ago, The National Review's John Derbyshire wrote that the odds of us, or our children, dying in a 'genuine mass-mobilization-type, carriers-going-down-with-all-hands-type, flattened-cities-type war' were higher than most people believed.

At the time, even after September 11th, it didn't seem likely to come to pass -- at least in the short term.

Yet, even a decade ago, it was clear to some that we were headed towards some sort of cataclysm. Nations all over the world have made promises that, because they have been undermined by demographic change, cannot possibly be kept. It was always clear that, eventually, the laws of fixed numbers would catch up with us and that there would be a day of judgement.....

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