“chaos” i hope you mean hundreds of thousands of lives at stake. These countries aren’t just pieces on a chess board, they’re countries with families and people who can’t defend themselves against a monolith like China. People love to romanticize the idea of China making a move so that they can step in and be the hero who pushes China back, but I’m filled with anxiety for my family, who have to hear military planes invading the skies every single day without fail.
Others leaders will only protect Taiwan because of its economic power that they don’t want China having, they don’t give a fuck about the citizens.
We're already there. WW2 never really ended, it just shifted away from boots on the ground to more spycraft. The Cold War was more or less WW3. Modern countries can't handle the cost of rebuilding from those conflicts, so they've been using territory full of people who can't defend it to run proxy wars.
This isn't WW3, this is WW4. We've moved beyond espionage and into pure cyber warfare, where nearly everyone in a position of power is compromised to some extent. We learned how to use nukes in the 40s, I don't people realize what level of science the governments are fucking around with.
It's a technological arms race. I view the US as the aggressors, BTW, sorry if I made it sound like I want world war.
I've stopped looking at the Middle East as a warzone and more of an archeological dig site. The US government doesn't give a crap about anyone over there, they want the ancient history buried in the sands. Same with Antarctica.
The US and Russia were in a tech race for a while, but Russia just couldn't keep up with Europe + the US's global power. Europe having the US, a massive country separated by two oceans, as an economic pipeline made it impossible for Russia to hold out. So, they eventually started working with the Chinese, who have plenty of reasons to detest the West, especially Britain. While the US is still more advanced than China on a lot of levels, China has made BIG strides in rediscovering and utilizing ancient technology.
The fear isn't nukes/troops anymore. The science evolved beyond that. If we have a serious global conflict, it will last less than a week and destroy a metric fuckton of everything, and thankfully at least a decent number of people in power are smart enough to get that. An actual all out war would create a global reset, even without nukes.
This isn't the start of a war. This war has been going on for a very long time. Best wishes to you and your family. I'm sorry you have to get caught up in this international battle between rich idiot gangsters fighting over weapons development because they want to rule the world like shitty Bond villains.
Sorry for being dumb.
