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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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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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Giuliano Giacaglia
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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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Sriram Krishnan
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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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I'm sure this is not your intent, but placing an issue/cause more related to one group in the first post, while subsuming and othering another group by relegating their cause to a subpost aka afterthought perhaps shows bias. Peace would only come about by humanising and offering our empathy equally to all.
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For the first time today I felt really worried about the safety situation in the UK. There are so many police cars everywhere now (I think they tripled them) and what is going on in the several places in world now could be anywhere anytime
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@toro
Even more troubling when you remember that there’s still thousands of world ending nuclear weapons to worry about.
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@dzeeroggs
Maybe it's a strategy to destabilize every country involved with "the west", especially USA, to overwhelm. NATO and its allies can't help everywhere all at once.. This is all very worrying.. If this is a trend how much different is it from being WW3?
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