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0 pointsSpooky238y ago0 comments

No, it's all a farce.

If there's ever a global conflict where the scope and scale disrupts those global supply lines, it will go nuclear and not matter anymore.

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hectorr8y ago

It's not just about a massive conflict kinetically disrupting those supply lines. Influcencing those supply lines is a key tactic in the day-by-day posturing and low-level conflicts of geopolitics.

Spooky23OP8y ago

That's what we have now in this cyber warfare stuff.

The reality is that we always have to push conflict to the fringes with "Tier 1" states (which I define as people with Nukes). The cold war answer was to fight using proxies indirectly. The modern answer is cyber/information warfare.

colechristensen8y ago

There were proxy wars sure, but the cold war clandestine ... er spycraft or whatever you'd like to call it has just embraced computers. The CIA and friends and the KGB/FSB and friends just got some new tricks in addition to the old ones.

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