android said:
Okay under the liberal democracy fighting each other, your right. But back to the 'democracies don't fight each other' statement. Democracies wouldn't need to start a World War. There are one billion Muslims in the world under oppresive democracies, if not dictatorships, not to mention China with their 1.3 billion people and North Korea and Africa. A world war doesn't need America or other liberal nations to start it. God knows America sat on it's butts for what six of the ten years of in both World Wars. Europe isn't where a world war would be fought.
Ps did I spell democracies right?
Yes, you have 1.3 billion Chinese. Yes you have a billion Muslims. But you still have to think about who could conceivably fight who.
Just because you have a billion muslims doesn't make them a politically united group. ie. Iran would be more likely to fight Iraq than cooperate with it.
China? At the moment, China has more to gain by cooperatin economically with the West than competing with them. Although that can change, it doesn't seem likely for a while.
North Korea is a threat, but not for any world-scale war, IMO. They have a few nukes, and a few missiles to launch them, but not enough to prevent themselves from being smashed into the stoneage in retaliation. And no one is about to come to their defence in such a scenario.
Africa is just plain messed up. There is never going to be a
major war fought over/about Africa.
I think Kobun Heat actually summed up the issue best with his crack in the beginning of the thread.
