SIR KEIR STARMER attempted to make friends with Donald Trump today after the warmongering US president criticised Britain’s slowness in joining the US-Israeli attack on Iran.The Prime Minister spoke to Mr Trump about the countries’ military co-operation, Downing Street said, after the decision not to grant permission for use of British bases in the first wave of military action prompted a raft of criticism from the Republican leader.
  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Cart before the horse there. Two-sidedness is something that tends to crop up in world wars, but it’s not how they seem to begin.

    So far they seem to begin by multiple concurrent conflicts yes, and-ing each other until every large entity is involved. When the fate of Taiwan might depend on what happens in Iran, and the fate of the Baltics depends on how well Ukraine defends against Russia, what do you call that if not a world at war?

    • ikt@aussie.zone
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      6 hours ago

      China and Taiwan have been on the map for ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson_window

      The concept gained widespread attention following CIA Director William J. Burns’ 2023 statement that, according to U.S. intelligence, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping had instructed the People’s Liberation Army to be ready for a Taiwan invasion by 2027.[2]

      Europe has been at war with Russia since 2022

      what do you call that if not a world at war?

      You’re right, it’d be a world at war but I wouldn’t classify it as a ‘world war’ unless China plans on invading Europe or America or is it just over the island themselves?

      I think it’d involve more than a big war over Taiwan or Ukraine, these would just be big proxy wars

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I don’t think we can be that clinical about the strict definition of a world war when we only have two examples to work from. We could end up with half the world economy spent on war and still be calling it proxy wars all the way down.

        • ikt@aussie.zone
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          6 hours ago

          I mean if there’s only 2 countries being invaded: Ukraine and Taiwan and everyone is fighting through them it doesn’t feel like we here in the western world are really on the brink

          It won’t really feeeel like a world war to me until Europe or America or Australia etc are actually getting invaded, it’s just a large glorified proxy war