Unfortunately we have bigger problems than World War III.
Over the last 4-5 years, there’s been a certain contingent of social media influencers warning that World War III was coming. They went into really high gear around Iran.
WW3 proved rather underwhelming.
The Russia-Ukraine war wasn’t World War III. It was World War I with drones. The 12-day war, as some are calling it, between Israel and Iran, with a rapid strike by the United States, wasn’t World War III, either. Had Iran developed and deployed nuclear weapons, it would have been a horrific catastrophe, but still would not have been World War III.
If there is a World War III to happen, it would be a showdown between America and China (not America and Russia, which is a spent force or America and Iran, our war with Islam is in a very different and much more dangerous category) and the CCP has chosen to play a different kind of game, stabbing us in the back, rather than attacking from the front.
Be wary of folks predicting World War III. Unfortunately, we have bigger problems than World War III.
Margaret says
How is the Russia-Ukraine conflict like World War I with drones? What defines war vs a limited strike? In conflict? In U S law? International interests concerning the law? And China plays well both sides of conflict between left and right, especially in the hands of ideology driven influences and leftist sympathies. How many is it now? Congress people and administrative efforts of Biden administration officials to push China’s narrative!
Wellington says
Margaret: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is like WWI in that it is a war of attrition, a largely static war, contra WWII which was a war of much fluidity.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Margaret
The Russo-Ukraine war has turned out to be a quagmire for Moscow. If they had just overrun the Azov coastline and established their land bridge to Crimea, it might have worked out for them. But they keep bombing Ukraine trying to get more, and have run into a stalemate. In the process, they have
⮞ Exposed the limits of their power by throwing so much of their military machine into Ukraine. If Beijing decided to walk in and occupy, say Chukotka and Khabarovsk, the Russians would be unable to prevent it, other than maybe lobbying hypersonic missiles and nukes at Beijing
⮞ Totally preoccupy Russia to the point that they’ve lost even their closest vassal Syria, who they zealously guarded since the 1970s. To say nothing about their influence in North Africa. It’s like in a chess game, where while paying plenty of attention to one flank, the other is left exposed for the opponent to completely break through
In 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, which preceded Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia was exposed as a paper tiger – which looked great on a map, but totally powerless to defend itself. In 2022, after the Ukrainians blocked the Russians after losing their entire Azov coastline, I have stopped regarding Russia as a superpower. Yeah, they have plenty of nukes, but so does Pakistan. If Afghanistan exposed how hollow Soviet power was, Ukraine has similarly exposed Russian power
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Fully agree w/ Daniel here. Only country that looks like it can wage WWIII against America is China. Russia has demonstrated how stupid it is by staking everything on Ukraine, while letting vassals like Syria fall. The war against islam is now figuring out how to remove the Greeks who came inside the Trojan horse (sorry GE, Robert & others 😈) from Troy
Beijing otoh has inherited all the Soviet vassals that existed under Brezhnev, and more. A war w/ them will totally engulf the world
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“Russia has demonstrated how stupid it is by staking everything on Ukraine”
Yes.
And Russia underestimated what a long slog it would be with Ukraine.
John Smith says
Lets get one thing straight WW111 will without a doubt be started by an Islamic country, It’s written in prophecy. The Ottoman empire will be resurrected and the caliphate and the anti-Christ will come from Turkey. And if Erdogan is not the anti-Christ then he certainly is paving the way for him.
I know I’m going to have many that disagree with me here but this is what I believe.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
John
I believe that just like in WWII the leading rogue states were Germany & Japan (Italy was a joke), in WWII, the leading rogue states will be China & Turkey. The latter will provide the bulk of islamic allies, from Malaysia to Mauritania, while the former will provide the communist ones, like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, et al
Russia won’t be a major player here
Greg says
Trump’s started WW 3.
Now it’s over!