No.
IMO 2026 is the turn around year for europe/russia already and europe will slowly provide enough stability to the world to prevent WW3.
Lots of stupid wars and conflicts lay ahead though.
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Things are looking pretty fucking bleak, but not in a "Spanish flu in the trenches" kind of way.
The US is turning into fucked up Gilead.
Water shortages are about to be a thing.
Drove past Glen Canyon dam the other day. Everything in the area has high water due to early snow melt, and yet powell lake and glen canyon are noticeably low. Gonna be bad year for anyone downstream.
It's gonna be a bad entire foreseeable future. The laws governing how much water can be used from the Colorado River were all made during an unusual wet spell that they mistook for normal; it can't actually supply that much. Unless the politicians manage to get their shit together and reduce the allocations, levels are just going to get worse and worse and worse until there's nothing left, even if the weather isn't bad.
I would argue that we have been in WW3 for a while ... since this whole "de-globalization" started.
World wars are hard to define ... what started WW2? Is there a single moment in time? Was it Pearl Harbor? Was it the invasion of Poland? By the time the Germans Invaded the conditions for world war had already been around for a while.
I'd argue that we're currently in the "appeasement" phase of WW3 ... I just hope that it's a cold and mostly economic war .... and not one with global drafts and attrition (altho Russia and Ukraine already have broken that barrier)
“Was it Pearl Harbour?” Tonnes of countries were involved already, it was already WW2 for a while. The blitz of London was started and ended by the time the US was attacked at the very end of 1941. They were plenty happy to let everyone else fight it out and then when they got attacked suddenly they were the altruistic heroes of man.
our history books (Every country's honestly) are choke full of propaganda. I only noticed because I got formal education from 3 different countries.
I found it very interesting for example ... that Spain does not teach about the inquisition or the spanish american war.
Flip side, in the US there's nothing in our books about any of Europe's history at all.
US history sounds even worse than our Canadian history classes. Just complete garbage. And then you see what people are learning in other countries and you have to wonder why we act like 10-12 years isn’t enough time to fit in any reasonable amount of our, honestly, very short history.
Maybe. We won't really know its WW3 until we are very much in it. Terms like first world war and WW2 were used within months of each war starting, but until you know the scale it becomes you can't really be certain where it will escalate to.
Probably not because Iran has no atomic bomb.
I think by "WW3" you are really asking, will countries start lobbing nukes at each other? Unlikely, although I wouldn't put it past Trump to try one at least once. Rumors are that he has asked the military to use nukes more than once already and they refused or talked him out of it.
Just gotta convince that FEMA tRump appointee that hurricanes exist. Then tRump will try to direct its path with a Sharpee marker. When that fails, he'll suggest we nuke the hurricane. That's when we dance!
Short of China invading Taiwan, this is probably the closest we will get. Multiple world powers fighting each other, proxy wars, etc.
China invading Taiwan
which won't happen for so many reasons. honestly, china seems to be the thing holding the global economy together
No. This is one demented pedophile and a criminally indicted zionist radical doing pirouettes and backflips while lining their coffers.
It will further radicalise the Middle East to be sure, but everything they can do from the air is already done.
There is no plan, and bibi probably never thought he would get this far.
Trump can’t afford to keep this going whilst maintaining the rest of global security and keep persuading his other hobbies in Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico and Canada.
Also, the domestic situation inside USA and the Epstein files not going away may soon divert his attention away again. As you’ve probably seen, the dude and his circle is all about market pump and dump for all the insider trading and hit and run military operations so to make his weak ass look big bold and strong. If they were serious about Iran they wouldn’t be doing it like this.
Iran has been stirring shit for too long for anyone with military credibility to step in on its behalf. It’ll be a regional conflict at most.
No, Russia and China don't give a shit. Russia is too busy with losing to Ukraine, and China isnt happy with Iran bombing places that actually give China more oil than they do.
No
No, this is just Iraq again, but with the victim throwing bombs at everyone close this time
No.
While the Trump admin is idiotic, the Iran conflict is just a repeat of the events in the later half of the 20th century.
Russia has exhausted itself trying to obtain some paltry mineral resources.
China is highly aggressive and will continue to expand into neighboring countries like they have already been doing, they're the most likely cause of a widespread global conflict, but judging by their incompetent handling of Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran as well as their rapidly declining population due to irresponsible governing (they executed or exiled most of the social policy experts a century ago and put a missile defense scientist in charge of the bureau that tracks population trends resulting in the One Child Policy) I doubt they will be confident about any longterm wars. Still, they constructed a mostly underground military city near beijing 10x the size of the pentagon, so they're definitely planning something.
Fact of the matter is, for all competent leadership, war is less efficient means to obtain things you want than trade. War has become too expensive in the 21st century. Only idiots wage war.
Xi understood that 10 years ago, but he's purged or fired everyone near him that would tell him that now.
The US understood that 4 years ago. But then we elected Taco for a second go round.
I'm not saying they will, I'm saying that dictators and fascist assholes don't always do that makes sense.
I forsee America entering a debt crisis and China might see that as an opportunity.
The odds just got higher. If China goes for Taiwan, and the US goes all out to defend them, I'm willing to say thats it, WW 3.
It won't be as cinematic as the second, but that's my line.
US would help Taiwan just as much as Russia is helping Iran.
They are tied to elswhere atm.
We all know what happens to countries trying several fronts at once.
War is about logistics, logistics and logistics. Remote wars bring more logistics in play. And they are burning munitions fast in Iran.
If China invaded now, the US would help Taiwan as much as we are helping Ukraine.
We could defeat China in a few months by blocking the Malacca straight.
Unless Xi cut a deal with Trump.
No, WW3 won't happen until China goes for Taiwan, and even then that's just another step, dunno if that would explode into a bonafide world war.
We're already at a two front war.
If China and Russia had come to Iran’s aid then it would be WW3.
But they didn’t so it’s just going to be dusty Vietnam. Again.
From what I've gathered from the comments, I think we're safe so far
UKBAINE
Efhiopia
VENEΓUELA
China = "Asia"
Hey, maybe whoever created this map just has a really thick London accent. Although that wouldn't explain all the other mistakes.
It's cheap-ass AI. Just to put a visual onto the current status. Not meant to be quality.
Holy ai map, batman. What the shit is that?
At least New Zealand is on it I guess?
Don't forget to add Cuba, Greenland, and Canada that Trump has threatened to take over.