Is the current situation in the Middle East the beginning of World War 3?

Question

It seems like it.

Answer 1

Yes and Israel ironically may have got the ball rolling!

Answer 2

Look people the next big one will start with nukes going off at the same time in Tel Aviv, NY, DC, and London. That will be from Iran's Hamas, next will be freighters in all of the US shipping ports having nukes in lead shielded boxes in the fuel oil tanks of merchant ships.

That will effectively take the US completely out of it in the first 30mins of WW3 Now after that North Korea will take South Korea and China will take Japan and as much of Russia as possible.

Europe will wisely sue for peace with China as the new World Super power. After things calm down a bit negotiations between the EU and China will take place. The former US will be divided up between the two based upon the premise that France will not nuke what is left.

During these negotiations the EU and China will also plan a lightning take over of the middle east which will also be divided up between the two powers.

When all is said and done there will be peace and technological progress unheard of before.

Once Castro dies, Cuba could very well be a Allied Power. I wont get into it, but the country is far better off then North Koreans.

I think the Axis is going to be Costa Rica, Liechtenstein, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Turkmenistan, and Laos. It's always the quiet ones you have to be worried about. As Zapp Brannigan would say, ""I hate these filthy neutrals, Kif! With enemies, you know where they stand, but with neutrals—who knows. It sickens me."

Besides, the Swiss really need to put their Army Knives to good use. You're all going to be screwed when the Swiss break out their... err... corkscrews.

There's a quote from "A Hunt for Red October" that states the next major war will be one with no monuments. Russia and the US still have enough nukes to wipe everyone out several times over. Plus the idea of a Nuclear Winter scares me more than the intial strike. I'd perfer to be vaporized in the first exchange.

Answer 3

The current situation in the Middle East is not the beginning of World War 3, but is more like Cold War 2.

World Wars are generally characterized as states fighting other states. WWI, for example, had Germans, French, British, US, Ottoman Empire, Russians, Austria-Hungary, Americans, Italians, etc fighting each other. WWII had Germans, Americans, French, Russians, British, Japanese, Italians, etc. fighting each other.

Meanwhile, in the Cold War, proxies were used as an extension of the fight between US and USSR (capitalism vs communism). During the Cold War, the US "assisted" many states against non-state actors, or helped create and supply non-state actors against a state and the USSR did the same. For example, the USSR assisted the Greek Communists during the Greek civil war in the late 1940s. The US helped create, train, and supply insurgencies in Latin America to fight Communist governments and factions.

Now examine the situation in the Middle East. Israel is fighting Hamas and Hezbollah. The US is fighting the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus the terrorists of Al Qaeda. These are states fighting non-state actors, which is characteristic of the Cold War. Therefore, the current situation in the Middle East is more of a Second Cold War, West vs Islamic extremism. But this Second Cold War is only a warning to what comes ahead in the future... when the states will no longer have monopoly over violence. Who fights and what they fight for will change.

Answer 4

i imagine it ok may nicely be. With our heads buried interior the sand, Korea is silently making plans some style of attack on some u . s .. even as Israel has nukes and so do many others. that is a scary idea that there is yet another international warfare. that is even scarier that this you'll probably be fought on our own soil. If we may keep our noses out of alternative international places agency, there does no longer be all this chaos. similar is going for out "do as we are saying, no longer as we do" mind-set. Bush isn't the president of earth. only the US. optimistically some one in our authorities thinks like the genuine people in this u . s . and takes a stand before some thing else terrible takes position.

Answer 5

According to Neut Gingridge (Sunday Meet the Press) it started 60 years ago. The big difference is people have worked to prevent it.

In the 1930's people had more of a bring it on attitude. So war escalated rapidly.

Answer 6

Don't believe this conservative propagana that Newt Gingrich is spreading! If we don't want war, we don't have to have it. Obviously, the U.S. is not in position to be in another one. But I'm sure they will tell you otherwise. Dick Cheyney is already investing in warfare companies, looks like he might have something he wants up his sleeve, like the IRAQ war. His business parners and him are the only one profitting on this grave situation. Don't believe a word they say!

Answer 7

Probably...like as if the world needs it. Everybody should just get past their religious & other differences! But that's unfortunately an unrealistic idea, with how far everything has gone.

Answer 8

It is VERY possible but by next year comes around we'll be getting ready to throw GWB out of office, so maybe we can have a descent settlement instead of a 3rd WW.

Answer 9

I hope not but the way thing are going and the world is anything is possible...Sorry but it Life no matter how hard it is we can't do nothing about is is America but were not completely free you know

Answer 10

I think that the conflict will remain to be "local", so I hope it won't be a new world war!