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^ not our next president and that's pretty much all i can say on this for sure
but to answer your question, i think those who have the most invested in maintaining the status quo have been looking forward to wwIII since the beginnings of the cold war. wars have not only been an indespensible source of profit, but also a good means of consolidating financial and political control over entire societies. if you ask me the efforts in iraq and afghanistan -- both of which have been abysmal failures -- are the final manifestations of this paradigm that has been flailing in its death throes since the fall of the soviet union.
in all the time since wwII, wwIII has never been so remarkably absent from the future horizon as it is today. it exists only in the wet dreams of the rich and powerful and as a nagging hunch/fear in the minds of those who can sense the coming shift and decide to perceive it negatively. i can't blame those people because i myself once took part in it. it's understandable that with a history such as ours, the sense of something "big" coming would entail some atrocity or other with which we are all too familiar.
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