An interesting article comparing and contrasting 1914 with 2014 to look at the possibilities of another World War. Very interesting comparison between the then up and coming power of a recently united Germany versus UK unease of losing its preeminent position as global superpower with the situation now of an ascendent PRC versus the US unease of losing its position. http://news.msn.com/world/just-how-likely-is-another-world-war-1
I was thinking about this situation. But who knows really? An idiot leader could easily change all of this. We at least have one.
The likelihood of regional skirmishes with sophisticated weapons and high body counts is 100%. The likelihood of Superpower vs. Superpower in an all war for unconditional surrender is about 0% short of the end of civilization, so you won't be able to say I told you so anyway.
It will be the I.P. war, Rocks v. Rockets from Giza to the Ganges after we're finally energy diversified (shale and Russia) and fiscally and diplomatically cynical enough to military disengage from that whole region. Russia and China will finally supplant us by arming, fueling and containing everyone.
So would the first World War, or maybe even the Napoleonics; heck switch those out with one of the comic book sequels.
Do you really have your head buried in the sand that deep? This is still going on. Just not in your little heaven of a back yard. All it takes is destabilization of a couple major powers. All it took was bringing down a couple really big buildings in NYC to send the US on a blood thirsty quest. Imagine a couple of serious natural disasters or nuclear strikes.
Call me an optimist but I don't see it happening. I think we continue to evolve as a species and while there will be wars in the future, none will reach the proportions of the previous World Wars. I think the Information Era with the Internet has connected millions of people across the globe that previously had no contact. We get updates on global news by the second and I just can't picture mass indoctrination being kept quiet long enough in a major country to come to fruition. Not to mention, outside of Putin and some outliers...empiricism is on the decline as well.
We will not survive another world war. The cold war should have been the end, WW3 will finish the job. I am stocking up water and necessary equipment for my fap bunker as we speak.
What's that Albert Einstein quote? That world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones? I think the advent of nuclear weapons makes it extremely unlikely- it's downright suicidal for one nuclear state to attack another. Rather, we're just entering a new Cold War- only instead of Communism- we're fighting a two-front battle against Sunni extremism and an emerging of countries whose foreign policies oppose the US (China, Iran, Russia, Serbia, Venezuela). In some ways that makes the world less stable- and it forces us to often make tough choices and often choose between a lesser of two evils and many situations (see ISIS). But- I think- it also makes the situation more exploitable- since the above countries I mentioned don't always have interests that perfectly align. I'm digressing, but I think we're ultimately in a much better off point then where we were in 1914. We have the EU, the UN, and NATO keeping Europe from descending into chaos- and the lack of colonization around the world keeps conflict relatively confined to one area. The Middle East will flare up and burn, there will be tension and proxy wars in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and Africa- but I doubt we see an all encompassing conflict that effectively splits the world into two sides.
Possible fronts? Middle East, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan/Pakistan/India, Central/South America, and even the NORTH POLE! (There's been some recent border disputes there, there's some black stuff under the ground. And we're already involved in war games there.)
The eastern world it is exploding Violence flaring, bullets loading And even the Jordan River has bodies floating.
the more imminent question is what will be the result of a nuclear detonation? I see someone or group geting a hold of 1 or 2 nukes. I think inevitably we need to consider the result of that happening. Its going to obviously suck for the city that gets it and I would assume the top target cities in world would be DC, NYC, London, Moscow, Beijing,shanghai,Seoul, then the list drops off dramatically.
