Human history is filled with violence, bloodshed, and conflicts ranging from neighborly squabbles over who gets a bigger backyard to imperialists trying to conquer the world. It’s in our genes, and we can do nothing about it, but that doesn’t mean we’re not trying. Still, war is a primal force that can shape the destiny of civilizations, and it has evolved in both means and motives. Recently, as geopolitical tensions rise and the world becomes more interconnected than ever, the possibility of a global conflict, aka World War III, is looming over us all.
Let’s try to figure out a few hypothetical (and not-so-hypothetical) scenarios that could ignite a cataclysmic event dooming our entire planet. But before we start, this article is not meant to be perceived as a serious piece but rather as the writer’s opinion.
1. The US and Israel vs. Iran
The American government has been trying to cover the whole of the Middle East with a wet blanket for years in an attempt to delay weapons research and manufacturing in countries like Iran. But as we can all see from the Russo-Ukrainian war and the HAMAS’s terrorist operation in Israel, the US has failed miserably. Not only does Iran supply attack drones, missiles, and who knows what else to the Russians, but they also have enough time and resources to develop new weapons, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, despite any and all sanctions. And so it seems that sooner or later, this will lead to either an all-out war between the Civilized West and the Iranian troops. In turn, such an escalation may persuade the Axis of Evil to step in, and boom!—we got WWIII.
