A Boring Dystopia

I would argue that we have been in WW3 for a while ... since this whole "de-globalization" started.

World wars are hard to define ... what started WW2? Is there a single moment in time? Was it Pearl Harbor? Was it the invasion of Poland? By the time the Germans Invaded the conditions for world war had already been around for a while.

I'd argue that we're currently in the "appeasement" phase of WW3 ... I just hope that it's a cold and mostly economic war .... and not one with global drafts and attrition (altho Russia and Ukraine already have broken that barrier)

No, Russia and China don't give a shit. Russia is too busy with losing to Ukraine, and China isnt happy with Iran bombing places that actually give China more oil than they do.

Things are looking pretty fucking bleak, but not in a "Spanish flu in the trenches" kind of way.

The US is turning into fucked up Gilead.

Water shortages are about to be a thing.

No.

IMO 2026 is the turn around year for europe/russia already and europe will slowly provide enough stability to the world to prevent WW3.

Lots of stupid wars and conflicts lay ahead though.

No

Iran has been stirring shit for too long for anyone with military credibility to step in on its behalf. It’ll be a regional conflict at most.

I think by "WW3" you are really asking, will countries start lobbing nukes at each other? Unlikely, although I wouldn't put it past Trump to try one at least once. Rumors are that he has asked the military to use nukes more than once already and they refused or talked him out of it.

Maybe. We won't really know its WW3 until we are very much in it. Terms like first world war and WW2 were used within months of each war starting, but until you know the scale it becomes you can't really be certain where it will escalate to.

From what I've gathered from the comments, I think we're safe so far

Short of China invading Taiwan, this is probably the closest we will get. Multiple world powers fighting each other, proxy wars, etc.

No. This is one demented pedophile and a criminally indicted zionist radical doing pirouettes and backflips while lining their coffers.

It will further radicalise the Middle East to be sure, but everything they can do from the air is already done.

There is no plan, and bibi probably never thought he would get this far.

Trump can’t afford to keep this going whilst maintaining the rest of global security and keep persuading his other hobbies in Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico and Canada.

Also, the domestic situation inside USA and the Epstein files not going away may soon divert his attention away again. As you’ve probably seen, the dude and his circle is all about market pump and dump for all the insider trading and hit and run military operations so to make his weak ass look big bold and strong. If they were serious about Iran they wouldn’t be doing it like this.

No, this is just Iraq again, but with the victim throwing bombs at everyone close this time

No, WW3 won't happen until China goes for Taiwan, and even then that's just another step, dunno if that would explode into a bonafide world war.

No.

While the Trump admin is idiotic, the Iran conflict is just a repeat of the events in the later half of the 20th century.

Russia has exhausted itself trying to obtain some paltry mineral resources.

China is highly aggressive and will continue to expand into neighboring countries like they have already been doing, they're the most likely cause of a widespread global conflict, but judging by their incompetent handling of Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran as well as their rapidly declining population due to irresponsible governing (they executed or exiled most of the social policy experts a century ago and put a missile defense scientist in charge of the bureau that tracks population trends resulting in the One Child Policy) I doubt they will be confident about any longterm wars. Still, they constructed a mostly underground military city near beijing 10x the size of the pentagon, so they're definitely planning something.

Fact of the matter is, for all competent leadership, war is less efficient means to obtain things you want than trade. War has become too expensive in the 21st century. Only idiots wage war.

We're already at a two front war.

The odds just got higher. If China goes for Taiwan, and the US goes all out to defend them, I'm willing to say thats it, WW 3.

It won't be as cinematic as the second, but that's my line.

If China and Russia had come to Iran’s aid then it would be WW3.

But they didn’t so it’s just going to be dusty Vietnam. Again.

Depends. Can the galling regime in Iran motivate a Shiite revolution across the world and can they do gorilla warfare from tunnels in Iran's mountainous regions for a long time. And distrupt the flow of oil sufficiently thus causing the us dollar to collapse and thus the global markets along with it (Rothschild banks USD as international reserve currency etc etc).

The us is distracted so China might take the opportunity to take Taiwan. That will herold in the end of the consumer driven economy enjoyed by the western world cos trade with china drives everything.

When markets and quality of life collapse this bad u either get a populist revolution (eg Hitler, Stalin, etc) or the government starts an economic rejuvenation project (war driven economy).

The economy is essentially just a function of how effective a population is at turning resources into product. Wealth concentration has got so heigh we are approaching the point that people can no longer consume the GDP. Thus u need a product sink else the economy stops. Thankfully the war driven economy already proves an excellent resources sink (war itself). Orwell predicted this yet nobody listened.

We might get to be the ones to witness the death of liberty, but then again the pots boiling so slowly their is little chance we will know when that happens. Who's to say the final blow to liberty hasn't already been dealt and we just can't see it yet.