out of boredome when/if WWIII eventually happens

Count the UAE in with the Allies.

Flying the most advanced F-16’s in the world with possible exception of IAF.

We gonna make it a 3-Peat in DubDub3 baw.

Probably add Pakistan to Allies too.

Russia, China, Venezuela and n Korea would be axis.

Japan, Brazil, India, Morocco would all be allies.

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You're forgetting the Space Force. Rookie mistake.

y'all need to think about your internet activities.

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You're forgetting the Space Force.

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Label says "Made in China". Hard to road test a system like that. Sorry but too much corruption and pay offs to have a lot of confidence in such a critical defense system.

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Flying the most advanced F-16’s in the world with possible exception of IAF.

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Bahrain may have the most advanced here in the next couple months with the new Block 70 orders.

You really think Russia would team up with China? That’s rich. Russia would join up with the allies again because they know what’s good for them, because they know they can’t afford a dominant China, because they already have major disputes with China. I’m not saying we are old friends, but they definitely know their real threats.

Besides, both are major regional powers that share a border.

I don’t know if this is the most likely scenario, but the one that I think would make the most interesting divisions is a US led Allies vs a China led Axis.

Definitely not something that would be imminent, but let’s say that the relationship continues to deteriorate and China continues towards full blown authoritarianism over the next 30 years. In the mean time, a beneficial trading relationship with the EU keeps their economy at least stable enough to make big investments in drone tech, quantum computing, and/or AI technologies. At the same time, they keep up this economic colonization of Africa and expand their sights to the Middle East. All of which is at least a somewhat reasonable projection for the next 3 decades. Finally, they grow to big for their britches. The population has been fully brainwashed by the state run citizen score system and anti-Chinese racism soars to an all time high. They decide it’s time to annex some of the Southeast Asia developing nations.


And it’s on. The US steps in to be the world police, immediately drawing India in as the next biggest power in the region in the hopes of keeping it mostly regional. But China funds a Pakistani incursion into India to keep them occupied. And since the Middle East is now in play, of course the US calls in our Saudi puppets. But that ignites the anti-US flame in the region and all of the other ME countries board in with China. It’s now officially a world war, so the US calls on Australia, Japan and South Korea while China pushes their economic pressure over Africa to bring in a large percentage of those countries. The US counters by trying to pull in the South American countries, but Venezuela and a handful others looking to exploit a Chinese rise to radically shift power in the region decide to defect.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. What does Europe do? The UK will back the US, but Central Europe could theoretically be up in the air. China will have all of Africa, all of the Middle East, and a population with the kind of homogenous thought that we know the EU desperately craves. We’ve also assumed that they have strong trading ties with China in this scenario, and US resentment is clearly on the rise. Not near the point where they would ever go against us now of course, but in 30 years, who knows? If Chinese military becomes technologically advanced enough to the point that the EU sees some theoretical path to end US world dominance, can we be certain that they side with us? I don’t know. We’ve certainly seen the major powers of Europe pick the wrong side of history before, and history has a way of repeating itself.

So for argument’s sake, let’s say China pulls in the EU by promising a version of the new global world order that many in Europe would already like to see exist. So then the final chess piece on the board is Russia. And if everyone else has skin in the game, they won’t be sitting out. With the EU flipping to the axis, the US makes Russia a sweat heart deal, offering them big chunks of China as part of the spoils of war. That’s enough to get them to buy in and set the final battle lines.


So in summary we have...

Allies:
US
Australia
Japan
South Korea
Russia
Saudi Arabia
India
Asian Pacific countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, etc)
75% of South America (Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, etc)
Mexico
Canada
UK
Bulk of Eastern Europe/Eurasia (Poland, Ukraine Lithuania, Belarus, etc)


Axis:
China
Immediately conquered Southeast Asia states (Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, etc)
Most of the Middle East (Pakistan, turkey, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc)
Most of Africa
A few South American defectors (Venezuela, Argentina, etc)
Bulk of western/Central Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, etc)




Which, based on today’s position would obviously favor the allies by a great deal. But theoretically, a technological break through in even one of the emerging 21st century techs could immediately even the playing field. Particularly since the Axis would have the clear pure manpower advantage. If China develops a perfect code breaking supercomputer, or an ultra advanced warfare AI, or micro drones that are sufficiently small to completely avoid detection and take out precision targets, who knows? Maybe they could scrap together that raggedy mishmash of opportunists and put up an actual challenge to American dominance. Clearly a very very long shot on their end of course, but it’s virtually the only path I see to US defeat in a WW3 scenario short of complete self-sabotage.



That was fun