11/13 Paris Terror Attacks

At least 18 are dead after a series of explosions and shootings. There have been at least 4 separate, but coordinated incidents.

CNN live stream:
http://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn

CNN also just announced that there are also 60 hostages being held in a theater.

Update: More than 128 dead. We got a new rating. Basically, everything went fucky.
 
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Holy shit I love logging into facebook and seeing all the slactivists making their profile pic french flags. Wow great job faggots you really showed those terrorists what's up by doing that.

Notice they never do the same thing if a tragedy or act of war in America ever happened.

Just saying.
 
I am wondering though, could this possibly lead to WWIII?
No.

In spite of being more regressive than even the Axis, the Muslim World in general and Islamic State in particular lack the technological sophistication to inflict the kind of damage required to start a comparable conflict to WWII with NATO or Russia, let alone both at once.

It'll still be nasty business, and in war and politics you always have surprised. But the only countries which could have that type of conflict in the foreseeable future would be something between or within the US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Japan, and/or Western Europe.
 
No.

In spite of being more regressive than even the Axis, the Muslim World in general and Islamic State in particular lack the technological sophistication to inflict the kind of damage required to start a comparable conflict to WWII with NATO or Russia, let alone both at once.

The Serbs also didn't have the sophistication to inflict damage, yada yada, to start a huge conflict, but that didn't mean much when Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand.
 
The Serbs also didn't have the sophistication to inflict damage, yada yada, to start a huge conflict, but that didn't mean much when Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand.
Difference being the Serbs had powerful allies, assassinated the Crown Prince of a comparable powerful nation, and each of those nations had equally powerful allies.

The same cannot be said in this situation.
 
Notice they never do the same thing if a tragedy or act of war in America ever happened.

Just saying.

After Muslims did the 9/11 on us, there were a shit-ton of folks putting yellow ribbon magnets and American flags all over their cars. Social media wasn't as prevalent then, but there were plenty of bumper-sticker slacktivists.
 
Ok I just heard about this and it is so sad. My heart and prayers go out to the French having to deal with this.

I am wondering though, could this possibly lead to WWIII?

The answer is no, but it's a legit reason to worry. ISIS aren't technically a country (caliphate- whatever) and while they've a lot of soldiers on the ground, they've not really enough to start an outright war. They've a lot of resources, granted, but again, not enough for an extended, entrenched war on multiple fronts. Most importantly, they're not (as yet) seen as being their own government in the Middle East by their Middle Eastern neighbours. It's difficult to rally your allies for a World War when you've not even succeeded in taking over the country you're fighting the civil war in.

If ISIS does somehow manage to get caught up in a World War, it'd be with Putin's support and string pulling, and they'd be at best a small medium cog in a very complex and large machine. And Putin and his Russia are very, very frightening right now. Putin has all the signs of wanting to bring the USSR back and there's a pretty decent chance he could pull it off in only a few years. The major problem is that while no one wants the USSR to make a comeback, Russia supplies around 40% of the European Union's fossil fuels. It's effectively got the genitals of 250 million people in the palm of its hand, and Russia has a very tight grip. So if Russia cuts off the supply of oil, the world must rely very, very heavily on the rest of their suppliers. The vast majority of which are countries in the Middle East.

Whoops.

But while Russia's sniping at the EU and the USA is frightening, there's another country that looks set to get involved in the mess, and this one is terrifying. War between Russia and USA and the EU, you need to hoard tinned food and water, get all your cultural treasures underground where the bombs can't get to them, be ready to rake the skies with missiles if so much as a large bird flies ahead, and build your own miniature radiation-proof bunker at the bottom of the garden. If this other country gets stroppy, however, there's going to be more than a few surrounding countries who'll surrender absolutely without hesitation.

So what can be more frightening than a fuck huge war with the USA and the EU against Russia and the Arabs?

It's a country that even fucking Napoleon was frightened of.

It's the sleeping dragon. And it's not asleep anymore.

It's China.

And it's stretching out its claws right now.

If WW3 breaks out any time soon, chances are good that two main sides won't be the EU, the USA and their allies against Russia and its allies. Instead it'll be China coercing its terrified neighbours to join them against Russia and anywhere else that pisses it off. And that's when the entire world will burn.
 
That's a bot twitter account that randomly generates stories on tragedies

From the same twitter

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When one counts for the fact there are hundreds of these spam twitters out there, broken clock comes into play.
 
Doubleposting because actual news update. Fox is reporting that the Belgian authorities have arrested at least 3 suspects in suspicion for links to the attacks.

Police in Belgium made three arrests Saturday in connection with Friday's bloody terror assaults in Paris that killed at least 129 people, officials said.

Belgium Justice Minister Koen Geens told the VRT network that the arrests came after a car with Belgian license plates was seen Friday night close to the Bataclan concert hall,

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/1...h-for-potential-accomplices-in-paris-attacks/

It'll take awhile before we know if these are actually people connected or simply wrong place wrong time, but hopefully it's the former, a captured terrorist is a big step in this process.
 
No.

In spite of being more regressive than even the Axis, the Muslim World in general and Islamic State in particular lack the technological sophistication to inflict the kind of damage required to start a comparable conflict to WWII with NATO or Russia, let alone both at once.

It depends how one defines what is a "World War" the geopolitical impact of the current conflict on Islamic Extremism I think will be in that range when all is said and done. That could be seen as a world war but I think that even then that title will come retrospective.
 
No.

In spite of being more regressive than even the Axis, the Muslim World in general and Islamic State in particular lack the technological sophistication to inflict the kind of damage required to start a comparable conflict to WWII with NATO or Russia, let alone both at once.

It'll still be nasty business, and in war and politics you always have surprised. But the only countries which could have that type of conflict in the foreseeable future would be something between or within the US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Japan, and/or Western Europe.
WW1 Germany wasn't regressive. It was a modern socialist nation state with a complex bureaucracy, massive social programs, and advanced diplomacy. If anything, the UK, France, and the US at the time were regressive and spent the next 30 years developing their governments in order to try to become more like Bismarck's Germany.

WW2 Germany was similar, although by that time the other western governments had largely caught up. It is my opinion that Hitler was basically a modern Alexander the Great. However the German government was quite advanced.
 
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