Worldwide Conflicts
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To be honest, I really don't see the need for the 7-800 military bases around the world. I think the internet as a whole could somehow play a part in a more informed world around us. does anyone else see the need for NATO since there is no more Soviet Union?
I've also been paying a lot of attention to the BRICS alliance too.
I've also been paying a lot of attention to the BRICS alliance too.
DWalt
Member
How so? That may have been a more correct assessment at an earlier time, but most Wiki articles I read seem to be well constructed, factual, accurate, and extensively documented with appropriate references and internet links. And they are usually timely and up-to-date on latest news developments. Say, if some famous person dies today, his/her Wiki pages will be updated with detailed information about the death by tomorrow.
I would trust a Wikipedia article before I trusted anything I read in the NY Times or the Washington Post or heard on CNN.
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Some schools won't allow Wikipedia to be used for citations.
What's Wrong with Wikipedia? | Harvard Guide to Using Sources
What's Wrong with Wikipedia? | Harvard Guide to Using Sources
DWalt
Member
I also would not consider Wikipedia as being a suitable primary reference on any topic. However the "footnotes" cited in the Wiki article could well be suitable references. Some of the Wiki articles on scientific and engineering topics are as good as or better than what you can find in technical journals and textbooks. Last week I was refreshing my memory of explosive propagation physics and theory, which was a topic I was pretty knowledgeable in at one time, and the first thing I did was to see if Wikipedia had anything about the Chapman-Jouguet Plane (basically what happens at the detonation front during an explosive propagation). There was an excellent article there about it, obviously written by someone very expert in that area. That was as far as I needed to go to find the information I was interested in.
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Setting off a WMD is a game changer.
I don't know that regimes as radical as Iran or North Korea want to cross that threshold, since it would guarantee that they would be destroyed as a result.
Sabre rattling is one thing, sending a ICBM to Tel Aviv or Hawaii is another.
Gloves come off and things get very spicy very quickly.
I don't ever want to see that.
Once a nuke, regardless of yield, detonates there is no "oops, my bad!"
DWalt
Member
It would not surprise me if WMDs (not necessarily nukes) are already in their hands. Just waiting for the proper time and opportunity to use them. If you consider 9/11/01 a WMD event, it has already happened.
YeshuaIsa53
Member
I imagine many of us haven't been pushed out of our comfort zone...yet.
Guess it depends on where you live. Lot of things are becoming hard to coexist with.
Mind you, we have our own prisoners. We have to live with some of our worst decisions, and are living long enough to watch the tides go out and bare some things we had better not have seen.
All the world's new accomplishments, all the new technologies, all the new ways to talk with each other: we watch to see pictures of nebulas and moons, yet cannot seem to have a cup of coffee with our neighbors.
"How about a nice game of chess?"
Guess it depends on where you live. Lot of things are becoming hard to coexist with.
Mind you, we have our own prisoners. We have to live with some of our worst decisions, and are living long enough to watch the tides go out and bare some things we had better not have seen.
All the world's new accomplishments, all the new technologies, all the new ways to talk with each other: we watch to see pictures of nebulas and moons, yet cannot seem to have a cup of coffee with our neighbors.
"How about a nice game of chess?"
The Last Standing Knight
Member
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
This quote from Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" pretty much sums up human history and all its drama, conflicts, and wars.
History has one big rule; ALL empires must fall no matter whether it be by the pen or by the sword. That is no different today than it was in the time of the Greeks, the Romans, et.al. Right now, we are seeing that transition just as it was seen in 1918 and again in 1946 and again in 1991.
Right now, there is a power vaccuum. This vaccuum has ultimately lead to and caused the issues we are currently facing. The rise of these terror/narco states and their ability to obtain modern weapons and training is a major part of this. One thing ANY empire cannot show to the rest of the world is weakness. This encourages these terror/narco states to become emboldened and more powerful and causes the allies of that empire to lose faith in its ability. This leads to disaster in all cases.
Examples: two small nations few had ever heard of back in 1914...an Archduke of a dying empire...and a terrorist with a .32 caliber FN. Everyone chose up sides with the results we all know. Move that same group of nations up a quarter century, only in this case add weakness and cowardace and the same old story all over again. Mankind has had far more near misses than will ever be generally known. One day, the luck will run out. It doesn't matter, who, what where, when, or why.
Sometimes, you just must let the river run its course. There is nothing any of us here can do about any of the situations in the world. All we can do is try to make our little part of it better than when we left it. We can prepare, strategize, and think all we want. But in the end it isn't up to us. That is why I lose no sleep on these matters.
Not being political in the least...just merely what human history shows us. The sad part is we as a people seem to ignore it.
In closing and in regards to the media, I would direct you again to history as I have written on here in the past involving Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and the warship USS Maine and you will see just where the media has ALWAYS stood.
This quote from Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" pretty much sums up human history and all its drama, conflicts, and wars.
History has one big rule; ALL empires must fall no matter whether it be by the pen or by the sword. That is no different today than it was in the time of the Greeks, the Romans, et.al. Right now, we are seeing that transition just as it was seen in 1918 and again in 1946 and again in 1991.
Right now, there is a power vaccuum. This vaccuum has ultimately lead to and caused the issues we are currently facing. The rise of these terror/narco states and their ability to obtain modern weapons and training is a major part of this. One thing ANY empire cannot show to the rest of the world is weakness. This encourages these terror/narco states to become emboldened and more powerful and causes the allies of that empire to lose faith in its ability. This leads to disaster in all cases.
Examples: two small nations few had ever heard of back in 1914...an Archduke of a dying empire...and a terrorist with a .32 caliber FN. Everyone chose up sides with the results we all know. Move that same group of nations up a quarter century, only in this case add weakness and cowardace and the same old story all over again. Mankind has had far more near misses than will ever be generally known. One day, the luck will run out. It doesn't matter, who, what where, when, or why.
Sometimes, you just must let the river run its course. There is nothing any of us here can do about any of the situations in the world. All we can do is try to make our little part of it better than when we left it. We can prepare, strategize, and think all we want. But in the end it isn't up to us. That is why I lose no sleep on these matters.
Not being political in the least...just merely what human history shows us. The sad part is we as a people seem to ignore it.
In closing and in regards to the media, I would direct you again to history as I have written on here in the past involving Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and the warship USS Maine and you will see just where the media has ALWAYS stood.
The birth of "Yellow Journalism".
I don't think there are any more than in the past, we're just more aware of it. That, and the fact that for some reason we can't stand it if we can't get involved in every food fight on the globe. Looking through my rose-colored glasses, I don't think things are as bad as some people would love for us to believe. I hope I'm correct.
Jon651
Member
Don't be fooled - their agenda is PROFIT, nothing more. When anyone starts a news service (or anything along those lines) today, the very first question is always "How can this make us money?". We can blame Fox News, or MSNBC, or CNN ad nauseum, but each is simply catering to the group they think they can bilk for the most money in the form of advertising revenue. The days of the viewers choosing their network are long gone; the networks now choose their viewers.
The closer to a reporter any bad event is, the more coverage it gets. We all remember the Eid Massacre on Sulu, Philippines....oh, wait...CNN only had a stringer in Manila, hundreds of miles away and accessible only by plane, then boat.
News is a business.
Eid?l Fitr massacre: Abus kill 21 civilians in Sulu | Philstar.com
News is a business.
Eid?l Fitr massacre: Abus kill 21 civilians in Sulu | Philstar.com
Sistema1927
US Veteran
We can't discuss either politics or religion here, so it is difficult to describe either the problem or the solution.
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3 Rnds of IDF impacted inside the wire. 2 in the city. Wadajir District, Halane Base, AAIA.
This happened at my worksite last night just after midnight. You won't see it on the news.
This happened at my worksite last night just after midnight. You won't see it on the news.
