Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
From Ukraine last year, to Nagorno-Karabakh last month and now Israel, it really does feel like there's a trend of people becoming more comfortable with using large-scale unilateral violence to solve problems. That trend itself greatly worries me; each instance normalizes and legitimizes the next.
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Steve
@stevehere.eth
Ideology is now taking center stage once more, rather than practical considerations & cooperation. The invasion into Ukraine definitely started the polarization cascade that is now causing heightened tensions. There's now proof that national self-defense can't be left emaciated, as it invites adversarial attacks.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I worry that it's something worse than ideology: it's resentment.
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Jackson 🎩🍖
@jacks0n
Opposing ideologies structured around and harnessing resentment. Ref. 20th century Part 1. What growing ideologies exist that are orthogonal to resentment?
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Adam Elfarouq
@adams
When things, people or nations grow too big, it often comes at expense of others. The West, led by US policies, played main role in this from Proxy wars against communism, war on drugs up to war on terrorism...In my opinion, acceptance & embracing immigrants and avoiding military interventions can help. #FreedomForAll
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Steve
@stevehere.eth
🤔 Just off the top of my head of possible sources for the cascade: Resentment, desires for legacy, nationalistic pride, short-term-ism, ideological misalignment, nostalgia, & de-neutralization. There's a muddy mixture of any of the above within each nation willing to go down this path, with little ways out of it.
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