Patrice Riemens on Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:34:54 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> A scenario for World War III |
Hee Matze, Well it was not my opinion, I referred to what was written in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). I do not believe seriously in it either, but with the proviso "expect the unexpected" - very irrational decisions may be made in politics - see Yugoslavia (*) Furthermore the whole 'debate' in the WSJ is illustrative of what that paper itself described as a transatlantic controversy about the future of the Euro. Given the very 'anglo-saxon' rant against the EU, it is not so surprising that they gleefully come up with the darkest analyses, followed by the craziest future scenarios. Probably a case of what they call in Holland "the wish is the mother of the thought" (**) ------- (*) However... my fast-lane commentary on the 'Yugoslav situation' used to be: "Look, they had the choice between structural adjustment without end, or war. What would _you_ have chosen?" (**) Yep, it's called 'wishful thinking' in plain English. But this sounds so much nicer... > Thanks, but I am not so sure about "Germany is the most likely candidate <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org