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Is economics what prevents WWIII and other wars when in the past it has been the reason behind?

Posted - July 2, 2017
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  • 16797
    The principle of MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - prevents WW III. The balance of terror hasn't shifted in a generation.

      July 2, 2017 7:21 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    There are strong arguments for believing it was so in the past.  Now?  We are dangerously close to finding out.
      July 2, 2017 7:49 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    maybe
      July 3, 2017 11:44 AM MDT
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  • 17601
    The existence of weapons capable of such vast destruction would seem to me to be a strong deterrent. 
      July 3, 2017 2:06 PM MDT
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