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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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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I also notice a separate trend, of not so much flashy violence but rather mostly-quiet but brutal repression, becoming normalized and unchallenged more and more. This also worries me a lot. Not looking like a good decade for peace and freedom.
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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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@akira
I’m not trying to sound inflammatory, but I don’t think this is a recent trend. It’s been going on throughout all recorded history. I think every modern country was formed via “large-scale unilateral violence” in some capacity. It’s not something I want to see more of in the world, just an observation.
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Do you think there will be a WW3 😰?
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@norswap
Do you think this particular spat in the decade-long Israelo-Palestinian conflicts is meaningful? It only seem remarkable because of unusually high Israeli civilian life cost. To me, it doesn't feel like something new that couldn't have happened in the past (as it has!)
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Noah and @erik discussed this on a video released today: https://youtu.be/FW1coCYfapA?t=3295&si=IU9rEPpfIPsooCFs
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yes. and the more we don’t curb aggression the more others are empboldened. check this out. fuck https://x.com/sprinter99800/status/1711124207063453959?s=46&t=6odzKRbXvssnQX9Lk-oqyA
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How much of this do you attribute to America’s perhaps decline in influence or willingness to play “global policeman”
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Dictators seem more confident the last few years Europe's softness towards Putin encouraged him in Ukraine (but development in Armenia is evidence the Russian empire's grip is now slipping) We now also see the result of the appeasement of the Iranian regime Did the West get too financialized and ignored geopolitics?
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Even more troubling when you remember that there’s still thousands of world ending nuclear weapons to worry about.
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@branksypop
If peoples were non governable by oppressors bcs they had tools and know-how for auto governance, wars may lose sense. If oppressors can't govern invaded territories, less reason to fight wars for. People would even be able to setup own governments they really want! ... oh
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Federico Carrone
@federicocarrone
probably Taiwan is next. the world is getting more complex by the day.
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@misspurple
I am genuinely terrified of the coldness that is beginning to seem more normal
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@dmg
Universalism faltering and being replaced by Schmittian friend/enemy distinctions everywhere you look
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@jiang
still, i still believe in Love.
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@jrdntnnr
Generally, it feels like an ever steepening downward slope since the financial crisis.
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The problem is that bad players see that after any aggression i.e. Europe will condemn, in some cases impose sanctions and nothing significantly bad will happen, so why not invade and kill less powerful nations? Unluckily what the big countries can do is to say we are sad and impose sanctions that are not significant.
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@yoni
This instance now directly involves US military. Might affect the trend.
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