World War III

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NJ5 said:

Commando said:
I won't get into complexities. I simply believe it will play out just like the fall of Rome. America will be crippled by the very problems we have been ignoring so long at home and in our weekness dozens of nations will attack us inside and out. ITs happened before and it will happen again.

The US should definitely worry much more about its structural weaknesses than about a war which isn't likely. By structural weaknesses I mean things like over-dependence on oil (which won't be curbed any time soon). The whole world is dependent on oil, but the US even more so.

Low oil prices are actually making this problem worse by disencouraging investment in new drilling and alternative energies. This together with the world's financial crisis looks like a perfect storm. The financial crisis is completely masking the energy problem which may only resurface when economies try to recover.

 

Give it 30 years or so and it won't matter, oil won't exist anymore. Therfore alternative energies will have to be reasearched sooner or later.