Quote Originally Posted by RobPA
And the earth is flat and we can sail off the end into space.
Oh, come on now, that's just silly...

Ha ha! I'm not really serious about my disaster prediction. But this situation with Isreal and Iran is a dangerous one. I get the impression that like WWI, we are just drifting into something bigger than we can imagine, and no one is really trying that hard to stop it. There are a lot of overlapping alliances that could quickly draw a lot of parties into a war, if a wider war to break out in that region. And there are lot of very powerful interests who have competing agendas in that area, including the US, NATO, Russia and China. If Iran wanted to, it could easily close the Straits of Hormuz, and that would be very very serious for the world economy.

Things like the Great Depression and the World Wars seem like a long time ago, but they weren't. Something like that could happen again.