so historically you could resolve disputes between states with a conventional war. that was fairly effective one way or another but nukes have fucked that up for major powers. very difficult to go to war with a nuclear power if you are a nuclear power too. risky
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so maybe what you do is more like a cold war. basically every nuclear power war going forward is gonna be a cold war in fact. how do you win a cold war. well you just wait until the enemy regime collapses. maybe hurry it along. certainly contain it.
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so maybe one should expect future conflict to be basically a matter of regimes undermining each other using information warfare and small attacks physical or otherwise via proxies to try and get their opponent to collapse without firing a shot b
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if this is how things play out with eg the us and china you get to test the interesting question of how socially robust a *relatively* open information ecosystem is during an information war, compared to a relatively closed one
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if this is the nature of modern war, then one could argue that many nations are already at war with each other, just undeclared. spying and deceptive information are both exceedingly common between US/China and US/Russia already
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this presents numerous ethical, constitutional and practical problems
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