I think it’s about more than just the conflict in Ukraine, would could itself become a wider European conflict. There’s also spiralling conflict in the Middle East, the situation with Taiwan, and potential wars brewing elsewhere in Africa, Asia, and South America. That’s before considering the longer term conflicts that could be triggered by climate change.
We’ve been living through a period of relative stability, but now the world is swinging towards instability and perhaps we really aren’t prepared for it. Post Cold War politics have seen the military as something that could be cut back on. Maybe we should reconsider that, and before we have to consider ideas like national conscription.
Nothing has changed. It just feels that way because we had a brief period of quiet during the 2010s between the endless of slew of wars that have been happening since long before any of us were born, and the invasion of Crimea.
Journos are already growing weary of Ukraine and Gaza. It’ll be out of the public conscience by Christmas '24 and noone will remember some toerag general with a sadism fetish and a conscription fantasy talking nonsense on bbc breakfast.
I think it’s about more than just the conflict in Ukraine, would could itself become a wider European conflict. There’s also spiralling conflict in the Middle East, the situation with Taiwan, and potential wars brewing elsewhere in Africa, Asia, and South America. That’s before considering the longer term conflicts that could be triggered by climate change.
We’ve been living through a period of relative stability, but now the world is swinging towards instability and perhaps we really aren’t prepared for it. Post Cold War politics have seen the military as something that could be cut back on. Maybe we should reconsider that, and before we have to consider ideas like national conscription.
You’ve just described the 2000s.
Nothing has changed. It just feels that way because we had a brief period of quiet during the 2010s between the endless of slew of wars that have been happening since long before any of us were born, and the invasion of Crimea.
Journos are already growing weary of Ukraine and Gaza. It’ll be out of the public conscience by Christmas '24 and noone will remember some toerag general with a sadism fetish and a conscription fantasy talking nonsense on bbc breakfast.