Japanese atrocities

[maldoror]

Interesting enough that neither germany or japan did anythign really different than any other nation did in the some 100 thousand years of modern human history before it. The only real difference is the advent of telivision and temporal proximity.

Humans have ALWAYS been brutal and merciless in warfare. The ONLY thing that has changed is efficiency and scale.

What a vague, pointless thing to say. "Well, someone else must have done it first in the whole of human history, so who cares?" The point is that this shit happened in the middle of the 20th century, and that some still haven't come to terms with it.

[AlCapone]

The thing is, with mass media, world unity, and modern communications tech in general, almost everyone who's not ignorant or unable to access a history book knows what happened, and all of the current world powers were involved in the war. Alot of the world was affected by the consequences of WWII. Genocide and war have happened many, many times before in history, but WWII really brought the devastating consequences of it on such a scale into the spotlight. In decades/centuries to come, perhaps the new generations will see it as just a piece of long gone history. But the lessons of world wars should never be forgotten. Of course, history will repeat itself, and WWIII will probably happen sooner or later.

[Dexter Morgan]

The thing is, with mass media, world unity, and modern communications tech in general, almost everyone who's not ignorant or unable to access a history book knows what happened, and all of the current world powers were involved in the war. Alot of the world was affected by the consequences of WWII. Genocide and war have happened many, many times before in history, but WWII really brought the devastating consequences of it on such a scale into the spotlight. In decades/centuries to come, perhaps the new generations will see it as just a piece of long gone history. But the lessons of world wars should never be forgotten. Of course, history will repeat itself, and WWIII will probably happen sooner or later.

When I was younger I always wondered why WWIII took so long since the other were so close together

[AlCapone]

Well, there's one or two major wars every century, more or less, as well as alot of minor conflicts. The cold war doesn't really count, it was one big nuclear standoff, not a full blown war.
If you think of terrorism, advanced technology, oil, and the rise of China as a superpower, those are all factors that could lead to another major conflict, probably bigger than even WWII. Not to mention America's missile defences and Russia's dominance as a massive oil and gas superpower. The question is when and how.