War in the near Future?

Question

In say the 2020's who do you think the US's biggest threat will be? Do you think we will be at war? With whom? Nuclear? A World War III?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, WWIII will be global suicide, therefore in answer to your question, as long as there's rational superpowers who believe in MAD, there will be no WW3. By definition, the next world war wil be nuclear, how could it not. In a nuclear war there will be no winner. In a nuclear world, the only true enemy is war itself.

The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not if both sides believe no price for victory will be too high. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.

Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask what country would be victorious, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.

While we hear talk of a nuclear-Iran or a confrontation with NorKor, little is said about the 2 bulls in the glass shop. The arsenals of Russia and the US are enough to destroy a million Hiroshimas. But there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Our biggest threat is from an accidental launch by the Russians.

At the point of global suicide, it doesn't matter who is on what side.... In a nuclear age like i said before, the only true enemy is war itself.

Answer 2

I think the biggest threat to America through the next two decades will be internal ... the continued erosion of our Consititutional freedoms by the government.
What most don't seem to grasp is that the function of the Constitution is to protect the people from the government. Our founding fathers knew that all governments, regardless of how benign or well intended they start out, will end up as despotic. They built the Contitution to protect us, but through fear and apathy, we have allowed those protections to be stripped away in the name of "safety" and "security."
Here's a clue ... both are illusory.

Answer 3

We'll still be prosecuting the War on Terror worldwide as WE SHOULD BE! I don't believe that two large modernized "western" countries will be involved in a major war for quite some time. There's too much economic interdependence for that to occur.

Answer 4

USA against Russia and China.

Answer 5

Hell we'll be fighting in Iraq and the white house will be sitting on one of their thumbs and sucking on the other one waiting for someone to yell "SWITCH"!!

Answer 6

if resource gets so scarce
Russia
China
Iran..
i would start baying a boom shelter right now..

Answer 7

India or China. They're becoming the global economic usurpers ... and you know how the US feels about that ...

Answer 8

Read the papers. We're at war NOW.

Answer 9

China or Iran.

Answer 10

and another war question lordy