Third World War?

the 3rd world war started in 1948 with the initiation of the cold war. it was truly a global conflict, on a much bigger scale than either of the first 2 world wars. but at the time most people were so sick and tired of the last world war that they didn't want to call it the same thing, so they called it a cold war to anaesthetize themselves and pretend that it wasn't really pretty hot in places like Cuba, Nicaragua, China, Afghanistan, the list of countries involved could go on and on and on. It continued until the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-90.

the 4th world war started in 1980, before the previous one was even over, with the middle eastern oil crisis. Jimmy Carter told Americans they were going to have to buckle down and do with less in the way of cars, fast food, plastic doodads, and other petroleum products. Americans were not pleased to hear this, and Carter took a divebomb in the polls, so he caved. He initiated an American military presence in the middle east which has been escalating pretty steadily ever since. Bin Laden has stated on numerous occasions that if America withdraws its military presence from Saudi Arabia then he will have no more reason to fight with the USA. This golbal conflict is centred on the middle east, and it is expanding within that area, but if it continues, then it will most likely spread to different regions, including India, China, the USA, Venezuela, and so on. Make no mistake, everybody in thedeveloped world and many in the developing world are involved or implicated in this conflict in one way or another. It is a world war.

Albert Einstein famously said that the 4th world war would be fought with sticks and stones. What he meant at the time was that the 3rd would likely end in nuclear conflict and everybody would be reduced to the stone age, but the fact of the matter is that he was partially right even though we haven't nuked the world yet. Many peoples, from impoverished Americans to Palestinians to Sudanese to Iraqis have been reduced to the stone age and it didn't take nuclear bombs to do it; just unrelenting economic, political, and military oppression.

But regardless of whether or not these people have access to clean water, food, adequate shelter, and so on, there is always somebody to sell them guns, so most combatants don't really have to fight with sticks and stones.

the strange thing is, it seems that it is the stone age peoples who are winning this conflict.

The possibility of a big war appears to be there for a long time. But, the possible effects of a nuclear war and the lethal effect it is going to have on both sides in the war is indeed deterring the players from precipitating the war.

World War Three will start maybe in 2016 or 2017.

Yes i believe it's coming and we and other nations are going to be a big part of it every so many years this has to happen. Too many people, so much unrest, the haves against the non haves, starvation worldwide famine and the most important one ''GREED''

anytihng can happen even a major international war. but people have re-defined the third world war.

what is your definition of a third world war?

Yes, maybe in the next 10-20 years.

and a fourth, fifth, and sixth world war. Human aggression knows no bounds.

It's been going on for some time now.

WW3!, No country is that stupid to ruin its wealth.

confession may go up to some wars but UNO will stop it.

It's already happening. Most people just don't know it yet. Pay attention.