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Originally posted by jrbx2012
Switzerland will probably be a neutral nation.
Originally posted by MastaShake
there will be no world war 3. there will however be a bunch of proxy wars fought by the U.S/E.U vs China and maybe russia.
China and Russia have Iran's back and we have Israels , once it starts there's no stopping it , Iran supplies a majority of oil to China and Russia it would be in there best interest to protect them from Israel and the United States.
Originally posted by mikellmikell
reply to post by bdb818888
I mean really who cares about either of those countries ?? If they were gone the world would still go on. Silly thinking 1 or 2 countries make a difference . Look ar Africia over the last 40 years and now who cares about africia
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
If the question is what would define World War III as opposed to Israel's regional fighting issues, I'd say it's a straight forward question. If actual fighting starts on the home soil of one or more of the following nations: America, China, Russia, England, France, Germany, Australia, or Japan. If fighting is on their own actual soil.....then we can call it a right and proper World War set to build larger quick and basically be in totally uncharted waters for predictions beyond that, IMO.
Originally posted by MortlitantiFMMJ
Nuclear weapons mean its highly unlikely the nuclear powers will directly face each other. And if WW3 were to come about, it wouldn't necessarily all happen at once in one big event like people fantasize about.
Japan was at war in China years before Britain and France declared war with Germany. There were several events in Europe that precipitated the war in Europe, like the Sudetenland, Anschlus, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and Albania, Spanish civil war, a Japanese-Russian skirmish in Mongolia. And even then, when WW2 did officially start, in 1939 it was only the Britain + France against Germany to begin with, the US didn't join til 1941, Italy til 1940 and Russia was essentially allied to Germany before Hitler invaded in 1941. The smaller countries didn't join until invaded, a lot of it was seperate, but linked events which took place over several years.
Originally posted by MortlitantiFMMJ
Nuclear weapons mean its highly unlikely the nuclear powers will directly face each other. And if WW3 were to come about, it wouldn't necessarily all happen at once in one big event like people fantasize about.
Japan was at war in China years before Britain and France declared war with Germany. There were several events in Europe that precipitated the war in Europe, like the Sudetenland, Anschlus, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and Albania, Spanish civil war, a Japanese-Russian skirmish in Mongolia. And even then, when WW2 did officially start, in 1939 it was only the Britain + France against Germany to begin with, the US didn't join til 1941, Italy til 1940 and Russia was essentially allied to Germany before Hitler invaded in 1941. The smaller countries didn't join until invaded, a lot of it was seperate, but linked events which took place over several years.