thefacehead
Vital Football Hero
If you look back through time and history there are always periods of prolonged peace and then periods where countries are involved in wars. But there aren't many real global scale wars or battles for World supremacy like say the battle of the Armada, which if Spain had won would have changed the course of World history immensely, now I know technically that wasn't a 'global war' but it would have changed the course of humankind, no different to the second world war.
We are living through a time of relative peace, civil wars, small invasions, dictatorships will always exist, it's a horrible fact of life and I get the 'tell them we're living in peace time' argument because they are ravaged by war.
World peace never existed, never will, every creature on this planet is in some way programmed to make the edge, to be the leading power, humans are intelligent but will never overcome nature.
I'm rambling a bit I digress, the events of today maybe leading up to something more serious, global wars don't just happen out of thin air, they gradually snowball through times of tension, times where a country or blocs of countries feel their power growing, I personally believe that the nuclear weapons program has helped to keep the next full scale war at bay, that might be as wrong an assumption as the people that thought that two massive armies would prevent the First WW.
But nuclear weapons do create a tension that will never go away, the press and the news also provide their own tension to make their jobs seem more worthwhile and bad news is easier to find, there's plenty of it.
Do we live in a dangerous time? I don't know, only the future could say.
