ON A PATH TO WAR Top US historian warns of potential collapse of globalisation after Brexit and Trum - It's happening

HUMANKIND could be sleeping walking its way towards World War Three and Armageddon, a top historian warns.

Donald Trump’s election and Brexit suggest faith in globalisation is collapsing – and this could spark a huge global conflict, Harold James of Princeton University fears.

Prof James warning comes as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed fears the tide is turning against globalisation.

And former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair today announced his “mission” to get Britons to “rise up” against Brexit.

In an interview with Sky News, Prof James believes a shift towards wanting to protect industries and reduce mass migration mirrors the climate leading to both previous world wars.

He said: “I think [a world war] is absolutely a serious threat.

“In that sense I think the aftermath of 1907 is as interesting as the 1930s.
Prof James also warned the banking crisis 2008 and the resulting cuts to services and pay had the potential for a sharp swing in public opinion away from open markets, borders and trade and towards protectionism – as happened in the 1930s.

He said Trump’s election is a case in point because he has pledged to raise tariffs on imported goods and fight a trade war against countries with an endless supply of cheap labour like China.

He said: “We’re swinging back again from an era when everyone thought globalisation was inevitable, to a period when people think there’s really a big problem with globalisation.

“More and more governments, but also political movements, commentators, people on the street are thinking that globalisation just isn’t working.

“I think the movement at the moment is particularly aimed against migration.”

Europhile Tony Blair today kicked off his campaign to change people’s minds on Brexit which he said was being driven by mass immigration to the UK - which is currently running at the country’s highest ever rate.

Meanwhile in an interview with the BBC Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg said he feared for globalisation that helped his social media business takeover the world.

He said: “"There are people around the world that feel left behind by globalisation and the rapid changes that have happened, and there are movements as a result to withdraw from some of that global connection."

But tech billionaire Elon Musk yesterday claimed artificial intelligence was the biggest threat to mankind.

He believes mankind are set to become usurped by robots.

Humanity will then have to grapple with 15 per cent of the global work force being without a job.

The warnings come just weeks after the world’s most eminent scientists moved the infamous Doomsday Clock - which symbolises how close we are to the end of the world - moved the closest to midnight since 1953 - the most dangerous year of the Cold War.

In a statement, the scientists behind the clock said: “Tensions between the United States and Russia that remain at levels reminiscent of the Cold War, the danger posed by climate change, and nuclear proliferation concerns – including the recent North Korean nuclear test – are the main factors influencing the decision about any adjustment that may be made to the Doomsday Clock.”

Billionaires across the world are already building doomsday bunkers in case World War Three happen with work underway on a massive complex in Texas.

Trump last night said the world faces a “nuclear holocaust like no other” if the US cannot maintain a good relationship with Russia.

In a dramatic conference at the White House this evening the scandal-hit president told reporters: “Don’t forget, we’re a very powerful nuclear country and so are they – there’s no upside.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28869...collapse-globalisation-brexit-trump-election/

 

[Null]

globalisation is collapsing

That's the idea.

 

[XYZpdq]

Oh no now countries might determine things for themselves how will we live.

 

[melty]

This sounds conspiratorial but I'm pretty sure its already started. Someone here made the point we don't know for sure what event "sparked" a world war until some time after, it's not like it's just suddenly declared that everyone is going to go to war all at once.

 

[ASoulMan]

I can't wait to experience Fallout in real life!

 

[Broseph Stalin]

So nations want to rule themselves, and people are crying out that the failure of globalization is the end of the world and the start of WWIII. Why do I get the feeling that Merkel, Obeme, and their shady cabal are going to be the ones starting shit right in front of everyone's eyes, yet they're going to ignore it like Hillary's many scandals and just blame Trump or some other scapegoat?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The best way to prevent wars is to build international economical interdependency. When all sides profit more from cooperating than from beating each other bloody, you can have peace. In theory, that is. In realitas, this always comes with a price that somebody has to pay.

In the western world, it's jobs that get outsourced to 3rd world nations for cheap labour. In the 3rd world, it's resources being bought up and consumed by far richer countries from the west.

Certain aspects of globalisation are good, certain aspects are bad. If nations now start to seclude themselves, shit could go down one way or another - though I assume it won't go any further than proxy wars.

But, then again, you never know. One bosnian dude essentially started WW1 by shooting someone in a carriage...

 

[Joan Nyan]

good

 

[Johnny Bravo]

But, then again, you never know. One bosnian dude essentially started WW1 by shooting someone in a carriage...

If WWIII kicks off in a similiar fashion it will probably be due to Islamist terror.

 

[Captain_Asshole]

It looks like terror-mongering mostly, one that serves some very specific agendas.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Anti-globalisation movement? Mass unemployment due to developments in robotics? A third world war? The President of the USA warning of nuclear holocaust? What I'm getting from all this is that Judge Dredd is definitely going to happen.

Spoiler

 

[VJ 120]

I remember reading a news story that said by his 6th week in office, Donald Trump would literally have caused the collapse of our entire economy and everyone would be dying in the streets. According to some big important economist who knows his shit.

I feel like every time I read one of these big scary headlines, it's just a more scientific version of those crazed religious fuckos screeching about the end of the world being tomorrow

 

[Steve Mayers]

I feel it's already starting to happen. Not a huge global collapse as many are predicting but America as a global super power and empire is in decline. This started well before Trump took office, it started before Obama took office. The high water mark of America's power throughout the world was circa 2000 prior to Dubya's Iraq invasion that greatly destabilized The Middle East. Not that America was on too solid of a foundation at that point as it's manufacturing base had largely eroded away by that point and many of the economic regulations that limited the powers of major banks had been rolled back by the Clinton administration.

 

[IV 445]

I bet this historian, Harold James, is selling a book or writing one right now.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28869...collapse-globalisation-brexit-trump-election/

Your bias is showing.
This news is not just fake news, it's very fake news. The world will not end because an Alex Jones type person says so. Globalization is bad unless you want to get raped in several different languages.

 

[Sable]

See, globalization is both good and bad.

It's good when you can make lots of shekels from trade, but if you have too much of it then refugees from kebabland start getting in and ruining everything.

I don't think this article is entirely accurate that Brexit for example is lashing out against globalisation in general- most people like how money is good, they mostly think that endless refugees are bad. Similarly, Trump didn't get in by appealing to people to mount globalizm's head on a pike, he basically promised the people that don't care about it either way that he'd make things better.

A lot of people point to WW1 to say that globalization and trade don't do shit to stop war, but the whole thing starting was a really close run thing.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

See, globalization is both good and bad.

It's good when you can make lots of shekels from trade, but if you have too much of it then refugees from kebabland start getting in and ruining everything.

I don't think this article is entirely accurate that Brexit for example is lashing out against globalisation in general- most people like how money is good, they mostly think that endless refugees are bad. Similarly, Trump didn't get in by appealing to people to mount globalizm's head on a pike, he basically promised the people that don't care about it either way that he'd make things better.

A lot of people point to WW1 to say that globalization and trade don't do shit to stop war, but the whole thing starting was a really close run thing.

This article isn't even halfway accurate.

 

[glass_houses]

I'm personally convinced that at the very least, we're heading towards a Cold War with China, and after that gets underway, Russia will join in. Russia is still pissed off at the collapse of the economy along with communism, and they have a lot of very disenfranchised youth with no jobs or education, whose only occupation is to sit around and take krokodile all day. Russia controls a massive amount of Europe's petroleum reserves, so all they have to do is shut down the pipelines and Europe is fucked. And on the opposite boarder is a shit awful country full of Muslims who live in dirt hovels, produce an obscene amount of narcotics, and still manage to be convinced that they're God's chosen people, put on the earth to purge the degenerate infidels. Then there's China, who have been steadily taking over huge parts of the China Sea.

All in all, simple economics would make life very difficult, but so long as various countries are only claiming the natural resources within their borders it's unlikely that there will be anything more than boarder clashes with the neighbours. What is a problem is who controls what; and between Russia's petroleum deposits and China taking over the deposits in the China Sea, bickering over the price of grain is suddenly far less important than getting the oil needed to produce and transport that grain.

If nothing else, both China and Russia are playing a waiting game, quietly watching for globalisation to effectively collapse. Then we'll all be fucked as they initialise whatever it is they've been working on for the past ten or fifteen years.

 

[Techpriest]

I bet this historian, Harold James, is selling a book or writing one right now.

We've been on a road to another potential World War since the end of the second. 'The Long Peace' will end eventually, but I doubt we'll be able to trace the cause of it down to a single event.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

We've been on a road to another potential World War since the end of the second. 'The Long Peace' will end eventually, but I doubt we'll be able to trace the cause of it down to a single event.

I would say it's division