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  • A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea.
  • It was accompanied by a guided-missile cruiser and two naval aircraft.
  • The show of force came weeks after Russia sent a submarine and naval fleet to Cuba.
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, everyone didn’t immediately go “welp time to start up our World War”. Nor did that happen when Nazi Germany got rolling on Anschluss.

If WW3 starts, we’ll eventually determine some specific event that got it rolling irrevocably in that direction. Could be the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or the Ukraine invasion in 2022, or something in the future (PRC annexing Taiwan - or trying to and failing; North Korea finally pulling the trigger and trying to finish the Korean War; India and Pakistan finally coming to nuclear blows; any number of other things). Nobody will know until it’s already history.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Texas state government attempts to annex Mexico out of nowhere, fails miserably, and is subsequently taken back by mexico.

Canada makes an over-land/ice/ocean bridge and invades Russia with cavalry.

Somehow, Palpatine returns.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Texas state government attempts to annex Mexico out of nowhere, fails miserably, and is subsequently taken back by mexico.

They can have it if they want it

[–] DogWater 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I was surprised when I listened to hardcore history about it. It was like 4 weeks from the assassination to the declaration of war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like you’re missing the point of my comment

[–] DogWater 1 points 1 week ago