re: What Would It Take To Start WW3?

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The economies have nothing to do with it.

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economies have everything to do with it

again, as the international world has developed, war has all but ceased to exist

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Or maybe in the middle east Iran decides to do something either overt or covert - maybe, say, launching a small nuke-tipped missile from a remote area in a bordering country.

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i assume you mean against the US, which would likely lead to the persian gulf war, part 2

china isn't going to sit back and let iran disrupt the oil markets or threaten china's ambitions in the region

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Or maybe Pakistan and India unleashing hell over a border dispute.

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this may bring the world another major war, but it's very unlikely that it would evolve into a world war

the fact that we're using a typical border/resource war as an example of a "World" war shows you how long it's been