Is a 3rd world war inevitable?
453315
No... I would say that warfare of some kind or other will be being waged somewhere on the face of the planet for all eternity, but the likelyhood of a GLOBAL conflict has been steadily decreasing since the fall of the Soviet Union. I can't think of a plausible scenario for a full scale nuclear strike on or by anyone these days. The most likely scenario is that the U.S. will continue to engage in low-intensity "drive-by" wars like Afghanistan and Iraq. There will be other conflicts around the globe too but not a World War 3 per se.
873642
Have you heard of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, Israel vs a coalition of Arab nations....Egypt, Syria and Jordan. That was worse than the current situation.....it didn't raise a blip on the world war scenario (not that it didn't have the potention as a spark)...just relegated to the heap of regional conflicts between rump states. When the strategic super powers square off into two camps, then come back and we'll talk world war. \n\nUntil then, just think regional conflicts, proxy wars, sabre rattling and brinksmanship.... After the next world war, we'll be back into the stone age and you won't have to worry whether a world war occurred or not.  \n\nYour first inkling that it has started is when your video game and tv go off from that initial EMP blast.
998457
I wouldn't say it's inevitable... perhaps just very likely.
631857
no. and i hope not. \n\nits not a pretty sight having wars. and its not just the headlines every country is affected.lets cross our fingers itll not happen.\n\n"WARS doesn't decide who is RIGHT, ONLY whose LEFT."
491959
It wouldn't be a world war then, would it.
230183
According to the bible, I believe it says something like World War III will be the end of the world. But hell, who knows. The only one who can really answer that is GOD him/herself
433163
I have news for ya...we're currently in WW III!  It's most countries against a huge ruthless organization that is willing to die for their cause.  Anyone that doesn't realize we're currently in WW III lives in utopia.
150330
Predicting the future is tough for mere mortals.  I'm going to guess that there will be a 3rd world war and that it will be quick and world ending.  Jury is still out on the whens and hows.
496052
definitely..  The USA will probably be destroyed in a smaller war before this.  WW3 will be tha battle of Armageddon and fought in Israel.  The whole world basically will attack Israel.. It will be horrible and many will be killed.. There is much more to be put, but it is too much to be reading here..  Guaranteed it will be horrible.\nRev 19:19  And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. \nRev 19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. \nZec 14:1  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. \nZec 14:2  For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. \nZec 14:3  Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. \nRev 16:16  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
78472
No.  The United States will never become a third world terrorist filled country.  Republicans will keep getting elected by the religious right and Presidents will continue to send American troops to get slaughtered in the middle east somewhere by Muslim extremists who are believing that killing Americans is their ticket into heaven, and why go to all the trouble and expense of going to America when I can kill one across the street.\nSo no.\n\nThe danger is if we elect someone who wants to have complete military withdraw from the middle east, then the muslim extremist will come here.\n\nAlso we need to as nation take a good hard look at these christian extremists who are here who blow up abortion clinics and kill the innocents in the abortion clinic.  I don't know when the last one of these happened, but we need to crack down to ensure it doesn't happen again.
177048
Howdy\n\nIt depends, the term world war needs to be refined in this climate of global terror. At present there are a huge range of countries which are part of the Coalition, which at present are trying to root out the terrorists which were a part of the September 11 and London attacks, not to mention countless crimes in thier home nations. \n\nI believe that at present, we are in a state of war. At present we have many different nations which are trying to over come some thing which we believe are immoral or evil due to their crimes and actions. I consider this to be a world war, but if you compare this to the previous world wars, were land was taken over and large scale battles took place. You wouldn't really consider it to be a large scale world war, merely a policing action on a larger scale.\n\nIf you meant a large scale conventual war, in terms of a nations army attacking another, then I would have to say that in my opinion there are two options.\n  \n1. As you can see from the iraqi invasion, the oil fields were a key factor during the invasion, which included air drops of troops to actually secure them.\n\nWe in the developed world, we use far to much in the way of fossil fuels which from scientist we can assume we won't have much left to actually use in the near future.\n\nWhen this happens you will have every nation on the planet, fighting each other for access to natual resources, I could only assume you could call that a world war.\n\n2. The current Chinese and Taiwanese issue, is nothing more than a tinder box, waiting to explode. I believe that if the Taiwanese continue to press for Independence from the mainland, the Chinese will be forced to attack, to preserve face in the international community and their people.\n\nI hope this helps.\n- Phil
1138930
There will not be a WW3 as the defintion of WW1 and 2 is that they were the 1st and second World Wars in the 20th Century, we are now in the 21st Century!  I don't think anything like that will happen again, the stakes are too high now with nuclear weapons.  If it did happen there would not be the same community survival spirit due to the selfishness of modern society.  I however wish we still had the grit and determination along with community spirit wichi existed during both World Wars.\n\nTo answer the question, if there were another big War like WW2 I would do what I could to survive and support my countrys efforts (unless we are the bad ones in which case to hell with survival, I'd be in the resistance!).
145565
World war III has yet to happen
1057168
world war three will take place in many countries by its very nature, however it will very like begin in the south china sea, more specifically over the Taiwanese straights, and will begin as a conflict between China and the US over control of the vast oil reserves found there, china has been growing ever more aggressive in its seizures of such waters, and the US is treaty bound to defend them, and strategically must, when this happens is very debatable, geopolitics fluctuate very dramatically, and those in power will pick their moment based on a complex integration of factors. monitor the bilderbergs, that will provide forewarning.
879478
Not likely. The U.S has made a bad thing worse. Bush is a war-monger, and as long as he's in power, war is inevitable.
482393
No, 9/11 was the start of world war three. Iraq is just a chapter in the war on terroeist
266377
Prepare yourself for the unthinkable: war against Iran may be a necessity. THE UNIMAGINABLE but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran. \n\nThe unavoidable reality is that we now need urgently to steel ourselves to the ugly probability that diplomacy will not now suffice: one or way or another, unconscionable acts of war may now be unavoidable. \n\nThose who say war is unthinkable are right. Military strikes, even limited, targeted and accurate ones, will have devastating consequences for the region and for the world. \n \n\nIf Iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the Bolshevik Revolution and the coming of Hitler. \n\n\nAnd the kind of society we live in and cherish in the West, a long way from Tehran or Damascus, will change beyond recognition. We balk now at intrusive government measures to tap our phones or stop us saying incendiary things in mosques. Imagine how much more our freedoms will be curtailed if our governments fear we are just one telephone call or e-mail, one plane journey or truckload away from another Hiroshima. \n\nSomething short of military action may yet prevail on Iran. Perhaps sanctions will turn their leadership from its doomsday ambitions. Perhaps Russia can somehow be persuaded to give them an incentive to think again. But we can’t count on this optimistic scenario now. And so we must ready ourselves for what may be the unthinkable necessity.