World War Three

[Irish Caesar]

Wait a sec... are you saying I shouldn't believe everything I see on the 24-hour news networks?!?

My reality is crumbling around me!

I'm not saying that!

But don't believe anything you don't see on CFC...

 

[Catharsis]

It'll involve the Scots. They're bound to declare independence sooner or later, and then there will be a war with Britain which shall escalate into a global nuclear holocaust.

But I'd rather that happened than have to bow down to Fuhrer Jock and his deep-fried Gestapo.

FREEEEDDDOM!

 

[Theige]

Yeah sad thing is we seem to be losing?

It may seem that way to you, but we're not

Its impossible for "us" to lose. How long it takes, and how it happens, remain to be seen.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Yeah right us losing 600,000 dead iraqis in the war on terrorism. 6000 americans. Iraq is the biggest loser. Seriously 37% of iraqi deaths from violence.

 

[skadistic]

That 600k number is bullocks.

 

[Stylesjl]

World War three won't happen. Heres why:

Nobody wants that. If it does happen, then we are all dead and there is nothing we can do about it

 

[Tee Kay]

World War three won't happen. Heres why:

Nobody wants that. If it does happen, then we are all dead and there is nothing we can do about it

Nuclear weapons won't stop global-scale conflicts. Do you know how close it came to nuclear war in 1951, when the US almost drop nukes over Beijing?

World War III can't be too far away, with all the fear-mongering going on. I predict it will start out from small-scale conflicts and slowly expand to include the whole world, much like how the Spanish Civil War and the Sino-Chinese war preludes World War II but much more gradual. Civilians and human civilisation would be the big losers, as always.

 

[classical_hero]

It's called Armageddon.

 

[REDY]

There will not be WWIII. There should be only end of mankind. Most realistic conflict in 50 years? I think about war because exhausted resources.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

WWV is a long way off; the world depends too much on each other economically, as shown by the recent stock market drop that started in China and caused tremors all around the world. In addition, many powerful countries seem unwilling to fight for much of anything right now, I don't think WWV would have the popular support in the countries that would be fighting it (certainly not the democracies, at least). Nobody wants a large-scale war right now, except for the media, and their war in Iran isn't selling too well at the moment.

What happenned to World Wars Three and Four?

 

[Tee Kay]

We are in a world war. Its Militant Islam vs. everybody else. Its hit America along with Morroco clear across to the Philipenes and as far north as Russia in asia and lets not forget Sudan and Bali.

Militant Islam today is nothing compared to a world war. But if the hate-mongering and exploitation keeps up in about 50 years the United Nations could be meeting for the last time among the unrecognisable rubble of New York...

 

[Hygro]

Albert Einstein: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Which is why no one's gonna risk a WWIII

WWV is a long way off;

yes world war five is a long way off

 

[Irish Caesar]

What happenned to World Wars Three and Four?

WWIII was fought from 1945 to roughly 1991. On one side were the United States and its allies (NATO, etc.) and on the other, the Soviet Union and its allies (Warsaw Pact, Cuba, etc.). Both sides strategically positioned weapons of mass destruction, developed obscene arsenals of conventional and nuclear weapons, but mostly fought small wars, such as Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan rather than face open confrontation. Although the USA and USSR didn't actually shoot at each other, they were both heavily invested in a war that lasted half a century, and the rest of the world was very much wrapped up in it.

WWIV is currently being fought, and like WWIII, it is an ideological one. This one is a holy war, and it's unclear as to what the sides are, where the lines are drawn, and what's at stake. It may have started in 1991 when the USA and its allies stationed armed forces in Saudi Arabia (holy land), but it may have started earlier (US Marine base bombed in Lebanon, 1983, for example). Again, the world has a great deal at stake, hence it being a world war. However, rather than countries, the combatants are radical Muslims against moderate Muslims against secular states against Christian groups against Zionists...it's going to take a long time to sort this one out, let alone clean it up. It is being fought in New York and London, in Baghdad and Tehran, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon. Like the previous war, it is more of words and threats than outright warfare, but this one is fought with fear and fanaticism on all sides.

I'm not sure if WWV has to wait until WWIV is over, or if we can have more than one world war going on at once...

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

WWIII was fought from 1945 to roughly 1991. On one side were the United States and its allies (NATO, etc.) and on the other, the Soviet Union and its allies (Warsaw Pact, Cuba, etc.). Both sides strategically positioned weapons of mass destruction, developed obscene arsenals of conventional and nuclear weapons, but mostly fought small wars, such as Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan rather than face open confrontation. Although the USA and USSR didn't actually shoot at each other, they were both heavily invested in a war that lasted half a century, and the rest of the world was very much wrapped up in it.

WWIV is currently being fought, and like WWIII, it is an ideological one. This one is a holy war, and it's unclear as to what the sides are, where the lines are drawn, and what's at stake. It may have started in 1991 when the USA and its allies stationed armed forces in Saudi Arabia (holy land), but it may have started earlier (US Marine base bombed in Lebanon, 1983, for example). Again, the world has a great deal at stake, hence it being a world war. However, rather than countries, the combatants are radical Muslims against moderate Muslims against secular states against Christian groups against Zionists...it's going to take a long time to sort this one out, let alone clean it up. It is being fought in New York and London, in Baghdad and Tehran, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon. Like the previous war, it is more of words and threats than outright warfare, but this one is fought with fear and fanaticism on all sides.

I'm not sure if WWV has to wait until WWIV is over, or if we can have more than one world war going on at once...

I guess that any war now is going to be a world war, thanks to the alliance system, NATO, and the United Nations. No one's going to really "go it alone" anymore, and no one's going to let the war stay in one country.