World War Three (WW3)

love and monsters.:

Worlds wars.
We've already had two of them.

- Is it likely there will be another world war?
- If so, when do you predict it will be? In our lifetimes? In our children's lifetimes?
- Do you think that if there was another world war, it would end up in the ending of the world, what with all our advances in weapons, focusing on nuclear weapons?
- Who do you think will be the starters of the war?
- What do you think would be the reason for the war?

And any other questions you wish to raise.

sir_pleb:

Mutually assured destruction, was, is and always has been a completely insane idea. It's worrisome to know that the two superpowers in the cold war thought like that.

But to the questions.

- Is it likely there will be another world war?
No. Not in a sense at all connected to the first two, which were essentially european affairs which spilt over into the colonies. Countries are getting smaller, and relations are now run by economics. The EU and the advent of the euro have tied together most of europe's economies as such to prevent them warring with each other. The UN security council probably has enough about it to stop anything too big kicking off at least between the big nuclear powers.


- If so, when do you predict it will be? In our lifetimes? In our children's lifetimes?
Anything close to a world war will need a very different political situation, which I can only really see happening after some sort of major economic crash, thus forcing political upheaval.

- Do you think that if there was another world war, it would end up in the ending of the world, what with all our advances in weapons, focusing on nuclear weapons?
No, purely because the major powers are too dependant on one another and are forced into (fairly) friendly relations by the UN. I've also little doubt, that if the US were to enter into a war with the clear moral highground, no need to win over an indigenous population, they would finish it quickly, on combat terms western nations are the likely winners of any war.

- Who do you think will be the starters of the war?
- What do you think would be the reason for the war?

I'll answer both of these together, one of the countries is almost certain to be the US, simply because they are the major players on the world stage but I imagine that they would be reacting to aggression coming from either Russia, China or the middle east.

dee dee ramone.:

there's going to be a WWIII, for sure. No doubt about it.
As much as it shames me, I think China will probably start it, or have something major to do with it. With one of the highest stock[iles of nuclear weapons in the world, something's going to kick off soon. Either China, or terrorism will start WWIII, and to be honest, it'll probably be in our lifetime. Hopefully I'll live to about 70, so that's 55 years. I hate to say it, but something's going to go wrong there.