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When Will WWIII Happen?

  • 31-10-2013 11:50PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭


    Is it coming sooner or later?

    Do you think there will never be another massive war like WWII?

    Do you think it will happen in your lifetime?

    I know it's impossible to give a proper answer, just looking for opinions.

    I think it might happen in the next thirty years, with the USA/K/N taking on a resurgent Russia and China, maybe over African resources.

    Will WWIII Happen 155 votes

    Yes Within 10yrs
    0% 0 votes
    Yes Within 20yrs
    16% 25 votes
    Yes Within 30yrs
    16% 25 votes
    Yes After 30yrs
    12% 19 votes
    No, Another WW won't Happen
    6% 10 votes
    Don't Care/Know
    49% 76 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    When the nukes start flying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Sooner the better. The yoof of today need to be less YOLO and more NATO if yis ask me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Tuesday.

    Poll needs more options.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    After the next budget. Defny


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    cantdecide wrote: »
    Sooner the better. The yoof of today need to be less YOLO and more NATO if yis ask me

    Exactly, lets just get it over with.

    I want to be Mad Max Fox.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    Its already happened.
    It just wasnt called WWIII.

    Something to do with copyright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Mesut Ozil


    Doubt it will ever happen. Puny humans are too frightened of the nuclear stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭masti123


    Sounds like WWIII tonight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    The second Israel settles all of its territory with Jews and expels all Palestinians. This will herald an apocalypse and the end of the game. Then God will select 'New Game' and start the whole process again. Our job is to find cheats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    If my missus doesn't make me a cuppa shortly.

    It could be very soon...........


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    Stojkovic wrote: »
    Its already happened.
    It just wasnt called WWIII.

    Something to do with copyright.

    Indeed. The post 9/11 wars pretty much were it. It is just that with military technology these days the era of every man aged between 15 and 40 having a part to play in it is long gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    It's already happened but in Africa so the west doesn't care.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War

    deadliest war in modern African history, it has directly involved nine African nations, as well as about 20 armed groups. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people, mostly from disease and starvation,[7] making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II.[8] Millions more were displaced from their homes or sought asylum in neighbouring countries.[9]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,232 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Seeing as how it's Halloween Night, thread is about World War 3 and nuclear weapons.... I give you this:





    For anyone that has seen Threads I think you will back me up by saying it's one of the most scariest things ever made.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Auldloon wrote: »
    It's already happened but in Africa so the west doesn't care.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War

    How would that be a World War? Is that sorta like the World Series in baseball?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    I think the only event that could trigger WW3 would be a Nuclear first strike. I don't think Kim Yung Un is even that mental. Or the Iranians for that matter.

    Even if they were to lose the plot, there would be retaliation against them, but they would probably be on their own - no one would support them after a Nuclear first strike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    Auldloon wrote: »
    It's already happened but in Africa so the west doesn't care.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War

    deadliest war in modern African history, it has directly involved nine African nations, as well as about 20 armed groups. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people, mostly from disease and starvation,[7] making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II.[8] Millions more were displaced from their homes or sought asylum in neighbouring countries.[9]
    Not a WORLD WAR though, is it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    cabledude wrote: »
    I think the only event that could trigger WW3 would be a Nuclear first strike. I don't think Kim Yung Un is even that mental. Or the Iranians for that matter.

    Even if they were to lose the plot, there would be retaliation against them, but they would probably be on their own - no one would support them after a Nuclear first strike.

    Do you think it could be triggered by political reasons? Or a chemical or technological attack?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Your question should be when will WWWV begin.

    WWIII has already been fought, it brought down the Soviet Union and catapulted the US into a super, super power.

    WWWIV is still going on with the US involved in armed conflict in almost every conflict region worldwide, their goal is a Christian World paying taxes to the US only. The US are on the brink of winning it.

    Simultaneously and economic war has been ravaging the world that depends on the dollar and being manipulated by a few men in a plush NY office, some people are calling this WWWV.

    WWWVI is probably the correct question. And this will be the armed and economic uprising against the US supreme domination with an Alliance of Islam and European Christians, Africa and China to be joined later by Russia and Japan as the US promotes US made good as superior and stops all trade from China and Japan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    How would that be a World War? Is that sorta like the World Series in baseball?

    No it's not got anything to do with baseball. The amount of countries involved and the death toll makes it huge. Fair enough they were all African.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Auldloon wrote: »
    No it's not got anything to do with baseball. The amount of countries involved and the death toll makes it huge. Fair enough they were all African.

    That's a huge war then, not a world war.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I'm talking about a mad mega-death sprawl of man-on-man shooting each other to bits, huge disruption to many nations and economies worldwide, crazy embargoes, newspapers and media going nuts and some mad hero/villain casting wave after wave after wave after wave of men into hopeless battle to gain a few metres of ground kinda war.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Auldloon wrote: »
    The amount of countries involved and the death toll makes it huge. Fair enough they were all African.

    So it wasn't a world war.

    "World war
    noun

    A war involving many large nations in all different parts of the world."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    catallus wrote: »
    I'm talking about a mad mega-death sprawl of man-on-man shooting each other to bits, huge disruption to many nations and economies worldwide, crazy embargoes, newspapers and media going nuts and some mad hero/villain casting wave after wave after wave after wave of men into hopeless battle to gain a few metres of ground kinda war.

    You mean a total war?

    The concept is somewhat outdated, nuclear weapons have pretty much assured it's decline. There's really no non-nuclear nation that could stand toe to toe with the US in a conventional war and push it towards totality. So you're down to one of the superpowers and nuclear weapons would probably be deployed before the conflict ever became total.

    Hard to imagine the US/China/Russia etc. having balls out war just with conventional weapons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭MomijiHime


    World War I didn't happen until 1914, the next one could be another thousand years away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    catallus wrote: »
    Do you think it could be triggered by political reasons? Or a chemical or technological attack?
    Politics or geopolitics would obviously be a factor. And the threat of technological attacks should not be discounted. But, these would be solo runs by whatever country was involved. I doubt any country launching an NBC attack would get any support. From anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    catallus wrote: »
    I'm talking about a mad mega-death sprawl of man-on-man shooting each other to bits, huge disruption to many nations and economies worldwide, crazy embargoes, newspapers and media going nuts and some mad hero/villain casting wave after wave after wave after wave of men into hopeless battle to gain a few metres of ground kinda war.

    War does not disrupt nations or countries, war feeds them.

    Lesson one: Disrupt the nation first, cripple it's economy, trigger a depression, then invade. America will loose her entire nuclear arsenal, Ireland will disappear in the first strike, in a terrible twist of irony, Northern Ireland will prevail as the nuclear detonation in the south will open an ancient tectonic fault line and she will drift sufficiently northwards to be spared the geo stationary intercontinental guidance for the missiles and they will fall where Derry and Belfast was a few hours previously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    I'm afraid I don't have a link or reference, but I remember reading an article saying the next global conflict is probably going to be about water (As opposed to oil or some lad getting shot in a Sarajevo alley).

    Lets hope the Chinese are using taptips.ie

    Also, the next World War will only last a few weeks with the technology available today. It's interesting to think about the part Cyber technology might play.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    MomijiHime wrote: »
    World War I didn't happen until 1914, the next one could be another thousand years away.

    The Seven Years War was the first 'global' war. Napoleonic Wars too maybe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I'm afraid I don't have a link or reference, but I remember reading an article saying the next global conflict is probably going to be about water (As opposed to oil or some lad getting shot in a Sarajevo alley).

    Lets hope the Chinese are using taptips.ie

    Also, the next World War will only last a few weeks with the technology available today. It's interesting to think about the part Cyber technology might play.

    Would it not be cheaper to just build a few desalination plants than to fund a global conflict though?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    I'm afraid I don't have a link or reference, but I remember reading an article saying the next global conflict is probably going to be about water (As opposed to oil or some lad getting shot in a Sarajevo alley).

    Lets hope the Chinese are using taptips.ie

    Also, the next World War will only last a few weeks with the technology available today. It's interesting to think about the part Cyber technology might play.
    How could a resource that covers 70% of the surface of the planet lead to a World War?


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