World War 3

Some people would say we are in it right now and that it started on 11/9/01. It's just not traditional nuclear war of the 1960s vision.

It's an outside possibility. However, it's hard to identify the spark. Could be something like....

o Russia gambles that a weakened United States won't react to a takeover of the Baltic States. However, the Americans respond with a conventional or nuclear strike.

o China has a major dispute with Japan or Taiwan over contested islands. The USA guarantees the security of Japan and Taiwan, bringing China into a conflict with the USA

o Europe is constantly attacked by terrorists. Eventually, NATO strikes at the Islamic World. Lines are drawn in the sand. Russia becomes involved.

WW3, in my opinion, is highly unlikely. China need to trade with other countries. Russia knows that it cannot defeat the USA militarily. There's no more superpowers.

Need to rewatch Red Dawn or The Day After!

As Marilyn Monroe said:

I don't know how WW3 will be fought but I know WW4 will be fought with spears.

Fleawuss wrote: »

The world is always preparing for war. Tactical nuclear weapons have been part of arsenals since 1980's. Obama isn't doing anything new there.

There are two main threats: Putin who is a lunatic, an opportunist and a man prepared to gamble on destabilizing neighbors and exploiting that with military force. He is a real threat and there is good reason for NATO strengthening the Eastern European borders. These countries do not want to return to some Putin version of the Iron curtain. He is capable of gambling that a local war would not become a wider conflict; given the idiocy of Trump's NATO comment he has been given encouragement.

The South China Sea is a real issue. The loss of US warships could trigger something worse. Putin would encourage that too: gambling that the US would backdown and be weakened.

Obama said he was going to work towards a nuclear free world, and got a Nobel peace prize for saying it, instead he is doing the opposite and is spending money on a new generation of nuclear bombs.
This will lead to other nuclear nations spending money to do the same.

NATO are not in a great position, look what they did with Libya. Absolutely destroyed the country.
Trump only spouted what NATO members are suppose to be doing anyway when it comes to their military spending.
It is the build up of troops by NATO on Russia's border which is leading to Russia moving troops to the borders of former Soviet states now in the EU.

The main nuclear threat is Hilary Clinton who talked about obliterating Iran in 2008 if she became President, as in using nuclear weapons against Iran if they attacked Israel, Obama basically called her irresponsible.
Then again in 2015 she talked about a war with Iran if the Iran deal was not kept to. She seems mad for war.

China have reclaimed a reef at the contested Spratly islands in the South China Sea and built a large airstrip capable of taking bomber and fighter jets, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam also have airstrips on reclaimed reefs there too.
China are building a third airstrip there.
The US believes it has a right to enter Chinese waters by undermining what China believes is it's territory.
There was a recent ruling by an international tribunal in the Hague which really angered China, as it gave disputed waters which China said was a part of their sovereign marine territory to the Philippines, which China said they would not accept.
That could lead to a confrontation.

AngryDiMaria wrote: »

Some amount of shoite talk going on in here

as opposed to your amazing contribution to the thread ? :rolleyes:

Nostradamus predicted that our end will come from the middle east.

fryup wrote: »

Could it happen in this modern age?? or have we learn't our lesson from mistakes of the past?

If it does happen what are the likely scenario of it kicking off??

the middle-east + another 9/11 ??

At the moment there is an ongoing NATO military build up in the Baltics and Poland to counter the threat of a possible Russian invasion. The United States has developed a missile shield designed to shoot down Russian ICBMs. Tensions are at their highest since the end of the Cold War.

Analysts say that Russian ground forces would easily overcome NATO forces in the Baltic States within a matter of days before NATO would be able to mobilize. Putin would have an easy victory at relatively little cost much like his recent victorys in Georgia and Crimea.

In such a scenario the only way to try and force Putin to back off would be the threat of nuclear war.

I don't think it would come to that but it would be possible.

Another trigger of WW3 possibility is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or war between China and Japan over islands in the South China Sea or a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India.

WW III has already bean fought and lost. As evident by the hordes invading Europe.

I think we're slowly heading back to another world war with the rise of global inequality and hatred, but I do like the term, financial warfare, so maybe we 're already experiencing ww3!