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My guess is, that the middle East would become a great threat, U.S. would send may troops there, and North Korea would invade South Korea because the U.S. is already preoccupied with Middle East.

This is so in the wrong place...

Ribbish

Stoke on Trent

i'm sorry but this is the most obvious candidate i've ever seen for the answer: "in your pants"

(within the american republican party against itself might be another good one)

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i'm sorry but this is the most obvious candidate i've ever seen for the answer: "in your pants"

(within the american republican party against itself might be another good one)

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dammit, i'm so not going after sloppy seconds. not after last time. :p

It won't.

If we take the first world war as an model of "world wars" then there have been two since 1945. I'm thinking casualties and number of nations facing each other. these are the Korean war and the Congolese wars. Of course they didn't happen in Europe, so they might not count.....

If we take the first world war as an model of "world wars" then there have been two since 1945. I'm thinking casualties and number of nations facing each other. these are the Korean war and the Congolese wars. Of course they didn't happen in Europe, so they might not count.....

The reason that those aren't WWs is that not much of the world was involved in those...

In Europe. We know how to start one.

Tensios between Russia and Ukraine, or between Ukraine and Belarussia (which would be supported by Russia) and EU stepping in to aid the Ukrainians could theoretically start something worth "world war" title.

More likely possibility is China - Taiwan conflict that would drag USA and her allies South Korea and Japan in. When we add N.Korea to that, we have a world war. Though it will (hopely!) not take place due the WMD's China and USA both posses in such massive numbers - a full scale war would inevitabely lead to the end of human race on this planet.

it is definately africa
there are so many wars in africa so many unfinished wars still ongoing or wars starting the world needs to pay more attention to africa when was the last time you saw an article about war in africa

there needs to be more coverage of these forgotten wars and less of this "iraq iraq iraq iraq iraq iraq afghanistan iraq iraq iraq"

but if i had to pick a country id say zimbabwe with robert mugabe vs the west now he actually does need removing from power :mp5:

it is definately africa
there are so many wars in africa so many unfinished wars still ongoing or wars starting the world needs to pay more attention to africa when was the last time you saw an article about war in africa

there needs to be more coverage of these forgotten wars and less of this "iraq iraq iraq iraq iraq iraq afghanistan iraq iraq iraq"

but if i had to pick a country id say zimbabwe with robert mugabe

Yea, yea, but how come would they lead to WORLD WAR?

an excellent point and there is a simple answer to that



i should read the titles more thouroughly

but still there is a war coming between the west and zimbabwe zimbabwe will probably call in a few allies i guess that could count as a world war

Tokelau obviously. They're just trying to lull us into a false sense of security by pretending to be easy going.
Then when we're not looking, bam! back of the head with a coconut.

Switzerland. They claim to be neutral? Just when you're not looking...they hit you with a cuckoo clock! :D

In Europe. We know how to start one.

Yeah, why mess with a winning formula?

Yea, yea, but how come would they lead to WORLD WAR?

How can the assasination of an archduke start a world wa- oh....


The last time I saw an article on conflict in Africa was a few days ago (admittedly it was an article about how illegal diamonds are funding them rather than the humanitarian parts)

I would say the far east. The ME is full of lunatic govenrments, but none of them serriously think they could win a real war against anyone else (lets be honest here, they cannot) But several states in the Far east have decent military power, if not much in the way of navies. And they may try having it out with each other. In jump everyone else to protect their investments, and POW. You gotta war.

We practically already are in a world war. Think about it, war has been proclaimed on all terrorism. In other words, all forms of fighting that have not been sanctioned by a government and even some that are falls under this category. This is world war III of a sort. Effects fo this war have been felt in London, Pakistan, Spain, France, Russia, the U.S., and all throughout the Middle East. So, pretty much the whole world.

okay, for another world war to happen I think we'd need almost every civilized country in the world to agree to join in some kind of centralized government. Then just let a couple nations refuse and have the power to back up the refusal, and you have a world war.

I think the US would support the government, as well as the EU and the UN. Of course, some countries would back out of the UN (at least whoever didn't support the government).

Who do you guys think would stand against a one-world type government?

My guesses...Israel pretty much for sure. Probably Japan and England. Maybe China.

I think the war would start in Israel.

the evil usa will start it.

The reason that those aren't WWs is that not much of the world was involved in those...

Nor did most of the world play much of a role in the first world war. Granted, empires that ran most of the world were involved. The first world war was called the Great war until the second came along.

I think that if World War III starts anytime soon, it will be because of a chain of events triggered from a Pakistan/India conflict over Kashmir. Both of these countries are now nuclear powers, and failure to come to some sort of agreement on Kashmir could result in nuclear confrontation due to lack of communication between the two countries.

The rest of Asia would be disrupted due to the nuclear fallout issue and economics, meaning countries like China and North Korea will try to assuage the suffering of their peoples through nationalistic tripe, like in WWII. In China, it will be those damn Taiwanese, and in N. Korea; S. Korea and Japan. (And naturally China would be on the Japan bandwagon too.)

I think I've said it before, but here it goes again. The next World War will start when Guatemala finally invades Belize, the UK will actually remember that they agreed to defend Belize against agression and will send a couple of ships and sink an Hondurian fishing boat because the flags are very similar. This will draw Venezuela and the US in on opposite sides.

China sees this as a good opportunity to actually go and annex Taiwan, and after that all hell breaks loose. The winner will be Burundi.

I think the 3rd will world will properly begin (given that we are in the intial stages at the moment) between India and Pakistan. It's likely that the situation in Kasmir will escalate. Pakistan is most likely to send a nuclear warhead across to India, which will reply in kind. The theatre of war will expand with China supporting Pakistan and the USA supporting India. Then it will become a war between the east and west. The outvome will be the same....M.A.D.

If history has shown us anything, it's the inevitability of belligerent points of view/cultures embarking upon unstoppable mutual destruction.

I think I've said it before, but here it goes again. The next World War will start when Guatemala finally invades Belize, the UK will actually remember that they agreed to defend Belize against agression and will send a couple of ships and sink an Hondurian fishing boat because the flags are very similar. This will draw Venezuela and the US in on opposite sides.

China sees this as a good opportunity to actually go and annex Taiwan, and after that all hell breaks loose. The winner will be Burundi.

That is almost the exact chain of events in a war I was involved in in International Incidents. Only different nations. :P

The question is, where DID the next world war begin?
The answer is, Iraq, 1991.

those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
i think WW3 is not going to be a war of nations but a war of corporations vs nations.
i could see an outspoken political activist saying something to hurt a corporation's image and he is "silenced" this information gets out, and there is a boycott of that company, they retaliate by pulling into another country, the country they pull out of warns the new country that the cororation is based in not to let it set up. the warnings are ignored and all hell breaks lose from there.

Tokelau obviously. They're just trying to lull us into a false sense of security by pretending to be easy going.
Then when we're not looking, bam! back of the head with a coconut.
Just after we (New Zealand) thought we still had sovergienty over them. The bastards!

If there is a WWIII, best bet that a Russian-Sino alliance will be involved.

If we take the first world war as an model of "world wars" then there have been two since 1945. I'm thinking casualties and number of nations facing each other. these are the Korean war and the Congolese wars. Of course they didn't happen in Europe, so they might not count.....


The term 'World War' was actually used by some people at the time for the Napoleonic Wars...

Nor did most of the world play much of a role in the first world war. Granted, empires that ran most of the world were involved. The first world war was called the Great war until the second came along.

Well, there was some fighting in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as the better-known campaigns in Europe... and a couple of sea-battles off of South America, too, even if no land warfare occurred there...

I think I've said it before, but here it goes again. The next World War will start when Guatemala finally invades Belize, the UK will actually remember that they agreed to defend Belize against agression and will send a couple of ships and sink an Hondurian fishing boat because the flags are very similar. This will draw Venezuela and the US in on opposite sides.

China sees this as a good opportunity to actually go and annex Taiwan, and after that all hell breaks loose. The winner will be Burundi.

Venezuela's current president has just tried telling Britain to give the Falklands "back" to Argentina...

"Pacifica"... good word, I'll have to remember that.

The next world war will start when the superpowers begin to battle over the last scraps of oil to save their dying economies.

In Europe. We know how to start one.
Would be a shame if us Germans broke the tradition, now, no?
Everybody needs something to be good at. And then pull through with it.

Everybody needs something to be good at.
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I'm still recovering from my anger at you for something else, but responding to a post of mine with a sole smiley is obscene beyond words. I might have to start WWIII on you for it.

I might have to start WWIII on you for it.
Go right ahead, I hear you're good at it. :fluffle:

Go right ahead, I hear you're good at it. :fluffle:
I am not to be fluffled. Fluffles are a WMD under decree 23.7.
And I think we share the abilities in question..

I am not to be fluffled. Fluffles are a WMD under decree 23.7.
And I think we share the abilities in question..
Oh, that may be so, but just look at us: I'm sitting here in my PJs, innocently fluffling away, and you're all "WWIII!", and "WMD!", and "decree 23.7.!"
Advantage: SoWiBi.

The middle east is being given far too much credit. They couldn't wage a world war. They've not got the means--they're too weak. Even nuclear Pakistan has, to date, been given a sound thrashing by China or India every time hostilities have broken out.

The Dar al'Islam dosen't have what it takes to start a world war. The Far East and Russia, on the other hand...

When the rivers run dry, there will be a hot war between India, China, and Pakistan, Musharraf doesn't look like he will last a whole lot longer, unless things are a little bit better managed. A three way nuclear tag team mess. The next cold war. The border between the middle east and the far east is where the most potential messes are.

The next world war will start when the superpowers begin to battle over the last scraps of oil to save their dying economies.

No, no, that's the Resource Wars. We're still right on schedule to start those in 2025. They won't be classified as a World War because it will be everyone vs. everyone else, no sides as such.

You only think I'm kidding.

Asia would be a good source candidate because China is on a rise to power which if peaked will overshadow America and history is a series of conflicts based on the rise and fall of contending imperial powers. China also has association with North Korea, Taiwan and the Pacific nations which all infringe on American interests. It is more likely that a second Cold War scenario will occur and no doubt the Middle East with its petroleum reserves badly needed by both developed America and a still developing China is going to be a target for the power struggle. There will be competition between the two to secure the most vital economic resource of the 21st century.

It's been underway for some time.
It started here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing