Do you think there's gonna be a 3rd World War?

Answer 1

Only if Bush stays in office

Answer 2

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 if there's going to be WW3, 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 3

Absolutely, the question is when and with who. My bet is with Russia or China as they are both working over time building up their arsenals. I predict sometime in the next 50 years we are headed for some pretty tough times and possibility the end of the U.S as we know it.
The liberals are slowly weakening this country from within and what ever enemy will just finish us off, unless we adopt some of the values from the WW II generation and grow a spine we are screwed!

Answer 4

They would never start a World War 3 because they know that if we did have one, it would be nuclear.

And it would blow up the whole world.

Answer 5

I think we've had way more than 2 world wars already.

Answer 6

Unlikely. What we remember as World Wars were not really WORLD wars. They were really the imperial skirmishes of an established empire (Britain) against a growing new rival (Germany) over access to the seas and therefore imperial trade. The skirmishes were aggravated by the interest of allies (France, Austro-Hungarian Empire) who saw imperial booty and legitimacy at home as rewards for their alliance to the winning power.

The European Imperial War was conducted as a result of the development of soft power as a less costly means to conduct Imperial policy over the 19th century, particularly because of a fear of mutinous multitudes in the face of defeat abroad. The European Concert is a romanticized explanation for what were ad hoc solutions to counterinsurgency issues in the face of contradicting territorial ambitions.
They split Africa like a pie. Maritime hegemony would go to the British uncontested. And the nascent powers? Well, they got the left-overs. You can imagine that when Germany and Italy (both born as Nation-States in the mid to late 19th c.) wanted a larger piece of the pie, well, the Brits were not all that happy.
Anyhow, the web of soft power that caused the European War has not been supplanted. In its stead he have had a bi-polar world, lob-sided really, in which the victors of WWII have struggled for hegemony while claiming to only fight for survival. The issues of nationalism and self-determination played an important role in the mixed conflict (soft and hard power were involved, as well as direct and proxy encounters) we refer to as the Cold War.
It can be said that the European War brought about a revolution in communications in order to better handle the difficult balance between war time economics and domestic discontent. While some of it is real, most of the ideology fed to the masses is BS. The jews never did matter to the US and the Soviets would not have been so vocal about nuclear disarmament and self-determination had the US not been breathing down on its neck for seven decades.
After the fall of the Soviets, the US proved incapable of managing a Unipolar world and therefore allowed for the rise of non-state elements and old powers to resurge and threaten US hegemony over world resources.

Will there be a renewal of the Anglo-German rift? nah
Will there be a new conflict over the gains of the European War or its immediate aftermath, the Soviet-American Conflict? I just don't think so.

Whatever happens with Iran will have more to do with the US trying to reassert its influence in a world where Public Opinion makes and unmakes all governments. This is not 1815. The Empires can't just walk in and tell you what to do.
I mean, they can, but the consequences will be quite different from 1954. I don't believe the US gov. can get away with using its imperial treasure on war without reducing its population's capacity to live on foreign debt. If the US attacks Iran, as it very well might, the US gov. will have much more to fear from its own rioting population than from the Governments of China or Russia, against whom a US Iranian invasion would be aimed at.

Intelligent emerging powers will be waiting for the US to waste itself away like a boxer with blood on his eyes. Then China will take Taiwan and along with Russia (or perhaps in competition with them) will engage in an offensive (soft or hard) to grab US assets in the ME and African regions. S. America is likely to integrate, if it desires to be its own master and if it manages to escape what will likely be the death throes of the US empire. No doubt, S. Am. will be the preferred target to regain lost dignity as it was after the embarrassing defeat in Indochina.

I see the world becoming more unstable, government power associating it self ever more with the US-made monster of the corporation and therefore ever more willing to focus its strength in controlling domestic populations through propaganda and repression.

As for a third world war... well, I don't think there was ever a world war. A bunch of whites murdering one another by the millions over the imperial possesions of their masters hardly constitutes a world war... except in the text books, where ideology rules over reason and the case that those horrible wars were fought over the universal expansion of good vs evil cannot be contested. But any historian who believes that belongs in the last century and ought to stay there.

Sooo, no world war. You will see a renewal of Class War as it was first established at the genesis of modernity. I mean, with the loss of popular organization in the era of mass media, government and corporate power are likely to further ally against workers. I don't see a 1984 scenario as being far-fetched... except for the extent of the government's control. No government is so powerful a united people cannot defeat it.

Heh... I didn't answer your question. I hope you got something out of my rant.

Peace.

PS: I am not saying the US won;t attack Iran. Au contraire.

Answer 7

Never happen. It will be the end of the world as we know it.

Answer 8

I honestly believe we are fighting it right now, and it will only get worst.

Answer 9

Not with America They all know better I don't think America would step in to help Most of us have had a gut full of their crap

Answer 10

yes absolutely,