Are you scared of WW3?

Well, on one hand living would become difficult for a while.

On the other hand, the cesspool inner cities would be gone.

One door closes; another opens.

I have a 20 year old son. So, yes.

Scared of that 1982 made-for-tv miniseries with Rock Hudson? A little unsettling, I suppose.

edit- on a serious note, no I'm not worried much about "WW3". But it is unnerving to know there will always be small potential for a muzzie zealot to get hold of a nuclear weapon or something bio and wreak havoc. But I think nations are so interconnected these days, I find it difficult to imagine an ongoing conflict between the big dogs.

We have a demented old codger in the White House that doesn't know what planet he is on. So, if you are concerned then there is something wrong with you.

I'm so old I remember the Cuban missel crisis.
I lived far enough outside of D.C. that I didn't think we'd be bombed. But we heard all the warnings that people in D.C. did.
Then I went to the University of Maryland (very close to D.C.) one summer to take a series of classes. One of our class rooms was in the aerospace lab. One afternoon sirens went off and two huge sirens on poles two stories high came up out of the ground next to our class room.

It scared me badly. No one else in the class reacted. I asked why. They all said "they test them every so often and nothing happens."
I still remember how they scared me, downwind of D.C.

Always have been.

If you have lived where tornado sirens are all over you don’t even think about the sirens anymore

Sure, most people should have fear of nuclear war. But also it’s not like a crippling thing or something I even consider on a regular basis. Our politicians should absolutely make decisions with that possibility considered though

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Are you scared of WW3?

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Not really because there isn't going to be a WW3 from this Russia/Ukraine nonsense. NATO could crush Russia and they know it. The U.S., Japan, S.K., Australia/NZ, and ASEAN would crush China and North Korea. That only leaves Iran, but they're too geographically isolated and have too many issues at home to really worry about.

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I had a coworker like this and he thought everything was controlled in the World by a group of people that would never let Trump win. When he won in 2016 he changed his tune and said Trump was part of the group.

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I applaud his intellectually consistency.

He's crazy, of course, but he's more consistent than 80% of this board on such topics.

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Their brains can't handle the fact it could all blow up at any minute.

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You know what fascinates me? That you can keep people from (for the most part) running into each other at 50 mph by just drawing some lines on the road.