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api on July 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Now Then – the hidden systems that've frozen time ...

> (I'd like to cue the arguments against having a Great War, "It'll be too expensive, no one would dare", circa 1913 or so).

Funny... people now say the same thing about the potential of escalating conflict between China and the U.S., among other things.

arethuza on July 28, 2014 [–]

Not to mention conflict with Russia over Ukraine (i.e. Europe needs Russia's natural gas too much and Russians have too much capital tied up in Europe).

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