WWIII already began. Using carefully-cut video clips, intentionally misleading articles, and social media platforms increasingly encouraging unrest to pad their bottom line, decreasing their users' attention span, and spying into their users' devices, the factions only need to fight for public opinion in this day in age.
You can convince someone to surrender to you out of spite for their own country, long before you have to point a gun at them nowadays.
This gave me chills. Sometimes California feels more pro-China than pro-US. “But man, China is so impressive. They’re so good at governance.” - verbatim quote from a professor I met at UC Berkeley.
You can convince someone to surrender to you out of spite for their own country, long before you have to point a gun at them nowadays.