Title basically says it all. Would it depend if it was the US, Russia or China starting it?

  • Tuukka R@piefed.ee
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    2 days ago

    It is possible that WW3 has already broken out, but is not called that way yet. WW2 was not immediately called WW2 either. It took some time for it to grow to the dimensions that enabled it to be called a World War.

    As in the previous two world wars, some countries will be switching sides. Just like USA has been doing now, hopping between the side of the Russia and the side of humanity about once per week, depending on how their president is feeling about things each morning.

    If we are currently in WW3, then the sides are very confusing:
    USA is against China but on the side of the Russia.
    China is on the side of the Russia but not really against anyone. Except its own minorities?
    EU and UK are against the Russia but not against USA or China.

    • porkloin@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah I think it’s reasonable to assume that it could have started but we don’t know about it yet.

      Some people argue that WW2 actually started in the early 1930s with Japan’s incursions into China which ultimately resulted in the second Sino-Japanese war. In 1932 that probably felt a lot like Russia and Ukraine felt to us in 2022. I think the real deciding factor on whether it spirals into a global conflict is the extent to which a bunch of regional conflicts combine into to a global clusterfuck. US shit in South America is not helping. Neither did Israeli shit in Palestine.