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by barbariangrunge 1336 days ago
This period of peace time is, admittedly, because world war 3 will end human life on earth and it’s making leaders slightly more shy than usual

It doesn’t even have to be a world war. It will only take 1 nation to make the choice

We’re one mistake from extinction

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Note that the "nuclear winter" will not be as initially imagined. It will be bad, very bad, but not extinction level bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...
WW3 ending humanity might be a wrong assumption.

God forbid we might be entering the "big proxy war" between all mayor powers. (If India and china start supplying the ukraine front etc)

To contextualize with OP: yes the world is always changing, but the next decade might become extremely uncomfortable.