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You act like WWIII isn't inevitable but for other reasons. The fear of nationalism thanks to WWII has caused the pendulum to swing way too far in the other direction.

And it's okay to call it "globalism" like everyone else does.

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It's a scary thought - one that I end up thinking more and more often. It seems that while memories of WWII were fresh in Europe, and the destruction still clearly visible, people were very much into peace and cooperation. But now, with new generations for which WWII is a story told by dying or dead grandparents, who were born into wealthy world and take it as a given - not realizing how much work of several past generations it took to build it anew after the World Wars - I fear we'll be facing another huge conflict here in Europe in the coming decades.

Liberal democracies can have political conflict, but never in history have they gone to war.

There's first time for everything. I don't see anything in liberal democracies that would make them unable to wage a war. Not to mention that regimes change, and their names even more often. Today it's a democracy, tomorrow it gets called fascist, day after tomorrow it goes to war.

But it's never happened - let's hope it never does

Odd that right now we're living in an era where the "liberals" have become intolerant and aggressive, criminal war hawks as well as enablers for criminal activity. It might be time we started qualifying what liberal really means anymore.

I said "liberal democracy" which has a specific meaning and identifies specific countries

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