How are they determining this
By vibes. Legit that’s all it is.
War is basically inevitable at this point
Whatever your stance on the Pedophile Felon President, basically all of his policies are inevitable going to destroy the economy of the USA. Once that happens, the only option would be to use force internally to control the people and internationally to literally steal what they need to stay afloat
The people of the USA are still deluding themselves that their military will be loyal to the people because they didn’t march super well for the Rapist in Chief that day… ignoring the military has followed every single idiotic order to date without as much as a follow up question
I’m not worried about the war! I’m worried about what will happen after the war!!! :-(
If we’re talking the bomb? Not very.
Climate change is a bigger fish to fry.
Climate change won’t end the world, though that isn’t to say it won’t make things hell on earth. Nuclear war however could very well end all life on earth.
Life would still exist. I don’t think there is anything humanity could do that would completely end life. There is life living tens of kilometers underground in the lithosphere and life in such remote caves that have been separated from all other environments for millions of years.
We could create and detonate about a ton of antimatter. That should be enough to crack the planet again.
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They mention climate change in their statement
Reminder that they basically changed the scale in the 90’s, when history was supposed to be over. It’s higher now than during the damn Cuban missile crisis, not because we’re somehow closer, but because of a kind of ratchet effect as a very baseline Cold War level of tension returns.
I don’t understand what you mean. Can you suggest what to research to learn more?
i feel this whole clock thing is such a liberal jerk off grounded in idealism not materialism. theyve been edging on 89 seconds to midnight since 2024.
i remember them moving the clock forward when north korea did some missile test a long time ago, as if north korea are the global aggressors 🙄. and of course it was 7 minutes to midnight during the cuban missile crisis.
trump threatening war on like 5 different countries is worrying, but i feel its mostly just MIC stock manipulation.
My suspicion is that the clock accelerated significantly because of climate change. Even if we don’t nuke each other, climate change is a slow burn, self-inflicted destruction by humans. Either way, both scenarios lead to a hot extinction.
I am very worried about the US starting WW3. It’s March of 1939, and nazis are actively fabricating a casus belli against weaker foreign political enemies.
We are in it already. Its an information and psy-ops war. Propaganda, fear, manipulation, controlling tech platforms, making people fight eachother over race, gender, whatever.
This is why everyone feels anxious.
Its not going to be a day when we see on the news that we are in a world war. Its ongoing and quiet.
History books may say that it started around 9/11, but depends on who writes the history…
The people who have the power to burn it all down are unstable. I am concerned, but helpless.
liberal bullshit
yes its the liberals fault. just take anything you don’t like and put “XYZ is liberals fault”
99% of the time it is
A bit more concerned now that the US is resuming nuclear tests.
To be honest, the idea of nuclear weapons ever being used again is far scarier to me than WW3 in general.
Global war between who?
Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.
My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.
My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.
America against something.
The possibility of Trump launching military operation against Mexico, Canada, Denmark, China, or whatever his dying brain will come up with next is small, but not zero.
I don’t know what will happen if Trump will annex Greenland. I don’t know what will happen if he nukes Mexico. I don’t know what will happen if he puts military ships in China water to intimidate them into giving him money. But I can’t rule out this and many more idiotic actions of his.My guess is venezuela is going to ‘kick it off.’ Trump does something stupid as another bit of red meat to toss to his little horde, he pushes argentina to help in some way, maybe he gets really brazen and tries something against brazil for their crime of daring to say anything against him (and maybe because he still has bad feelings about them from when musk was his little bestie), and china and russia decide to get rich by selling weapons to the south american countries, who will obviously have feelings about the whole us invasion. That pulls american attention away from asia, letting china have more options in their local area to bully around, and that kicks off something from that area.
Europe, africa, and the middle east might get out mostly free of conflict. The ukraine/russia war will likely still plod along.
Venezuela is target #1. Very unlikely to use nuclear weapons. Bomb some more people, and declare victory after Exxon contract awarded.
He won’t confront China
US also proved itself a paper tiger,
it’ll be a way between senile geriatrics trying to feel relevant
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I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.
Tibet on the other hand…
Honestly? Not very.
I grew up in the 1980’s doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.
What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It’s way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you’re somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that’ll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.
I get that’s not the kind of response you’re looking for, and I can’t blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.
Hug your loved ones.
I go to bed at 8. So if you all did the same we wouldn’t need to worry.
But you don’t, so I am very worried. I married someone who is incredibly unaware of caring about news. To the point that they would have gone on a cruise to Jamaica last week for the music and dancing. Completely clueless person. The moment I say anything like “we should cancel because…” Or “maybe we should avoid the area due to the largest, most powerful hurricane ever” she goes crazy berserk on me.
Good luck to you all, I’m going to be a stained sidewalk and or wall somewhere. Hopefully somewhere important so passersby will know it was me who perished there…me, the stain of the sidewalk man ofcourse. Unless maybe I carry my information engraved in a quartz tablet with me at all times!
find someone better, or at the very least just do your own thing.
I’ve been watching this clock for 40 years, also watched it get enshitified the last 20 years.
It has always been a symbol of empire, run by many the same fools who enabled the madness. But the revolving door and who contributes got worse since the 1990s. And it’s just some thing now.
They may be wrong or correct, who am I to know. But not to be relied on, I think
If I see a mushroom cloud I’m running towards it. No need to go to work, no need to pay back mortgage.
Just wait, the shockwave will get to you soon enough.
