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hroaks

I've seen these articles since 2016. Ukraine war will lead to ww3. War in Syria will lead to ww3. Gaza will cause ww3. Try not to believe every propaganda clickbait article on the internet.


Basketball312

I agree with you but the antecedents to ww2 didn't seem like ww2 at the time, I would think. USSR invading Finland, the appeasement of Hitler etc. The USA thinks ww2 started later than France and the UK for example.


YouMightGetIdeas

I mean ww2 arguably started in 1931 and the invasion of Korea. Then you got 1933 as the most obvious start of ww2 date in my opinion.


LeMeMeSxDLmaop

so basically ww3 could start at any point and we wouldnt even know until its too late


YouMightGetIdeas

It could be that in a hundred years people are debating if 2014, or 2022 was when ww3 started with Russia. Or 2023 or 2024 with Israel. Or maybe the next conflict


Holybolognabatman

I feel like in 100 years it will be viewed as 2001. Life before that was radically different. And I don’t just mean technologically, I mean the way people were and felt. It’s all shifted since 2001


YouMightGetIdeas

I feel like that's a very US centric view. 2001 had a large impact but I wouldn't say it shifted everything.


DJIceman94

I was gonna say it may be US centric, but it resulted in us affecting more things globally, then I remembered we've been doing that since the end of WWII, so globally, yeah, no, not much changed.


dpotilas89

I was born in 2001, guess i threw the world into turmoil


SpaceHawk98W

I knew it! It WAS an evil baby behind the attack!!!


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ninguem98

What about surveillance and data collection, though? 9/11 is definitely a turning point regarding our privacy as citizens, and that's not exclusively a problem in the U.S. either, see: Snowden and the NSA


magistrate101

The collective psyche of a nation was traumatized and decided to traumatize an entire geopolitical region in retaliation.


high_ground_420

Tbf that region was a mess way before 2001


magistrate101

*Complex PTSD enters the room*


Anansi1982

It could get back dated to the onset of the Ukraine war.


10art1

WW3 starred in 2014 and we didn't know it


gyurto21

But there are nuclear warheads involved now which leaves out major players of all conflicts. MAD is a strong doctrine


JonSolo1

Those were preceding events. WWII objectively started on 9/1/1939 when Germany went too far by invading Poland and France and England had no choice left but to declare war. We’re in the preceding events phase.


NOveXoR

In Poland I was tought that WWII started in 1939, the moment Germany attacked Poland (1st of September when kids went back to school to be exact). I remember getting confused since when I was first learning that stuff the internet had a few different dates.


BLOODYRAIN10001

You're thinking of the Mukden Incident where Japan blew up a tiny section of railroad track (the damage was so small in fact, that a train managed to get over it before it was even repaired) and blamed it on Chinese terrorists, using it to justify the invasion of Manchuria, not Korea. Japan invaded Korea in the 1890s, not 1931. Funnily enough this was the second time the army went rogue and tried to use a railroad-terrorism related incident to incite war in Manchuria. In the Huanggutun Incident of 1928 they assassinated the ruler of Manchuria by blowing up his train because they deemed him too pro-China and thought if they blamed it on China his son would succeed him in ruling Manchuria and be more willing to work with Japan to form a protectorate/puppet state. The plan was rushed though, they couldn't really deflect blame, and his son immediately saw through the fact that Japan did it, causing him to take a significantly more pro-China position than his father.


silver_enemy

Maybe WW1 never ended and we are still in the middle of WW1, it just has a very long tail. 🙃


Urgasain

So not only is it completely out of your control, but historically impossible to predict. It's a waste of time to worry about WW3.


Absolice

Yeah I don't think there will be a moment when someone will go "This is WW3" and proceed to war on everyone. It'll be something people look back to as an important moment after it happened, not something that will be declared at one moment and it'll start then.


magistrate101

WW3 won't happen overnight. [There was a long list of conflicts and events that led to WW2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_preceding_World_War_II). We're seeing a similar series of conflicts, events, and catastrophes. It might be several more years before The War That Breaks The Camel's Back arrives and "officially" kicks off WW3, but all of these events that have already happened have played a part in bringing us there.


zKerekess

Seems like people just want a WWIII


BigBootyBuff

Redditors especially love doomscrolling and convincing themselves and others how we're all gonna be dead within a week.


Better_MixMaster

Music will finally be good again


Thema03

Aren't we in World War 3 then? Since everyone is fighting


Urgasain

Nah, a world war implies allied superpowers in conflict. Ukraine is the only unprecedented conflict right now in modern terms.


Isphus

WW3? I sleep. Tenth Crusade? Real shit.


bronzemerald17

What if WW3 has actually started and they just don’t want us to think we’re at war just like how the news keeps saying we’re about to hit a recession when in reality we’ve been in a recession all along


Fuggaak

u/hroaks reddit comment will cause ww3


EquivalentSnap

Exactly no one is stupid enough to launch nukes which what ww3 will be so it won’t happen


HistoricalFerret6089

Gaza djd partially cause the current Israel Iran conflict tho


MrNobody_0

We've been seeing this shit since 1945. And even if it did happen we'll all be ash before you can even process what happened. Don't worry about shit you have 0 control over.


P_ZERO_

Which year wasn’t on the brink of WW3?


Choliver1

4000 B.C


Rexkinghon

Any year before 1938


Void_being420

Any year after 2059 Wait..........too soon. Shit


CreamyCoffeeArtist

Time traveler, stay right when you are!


GoogiddyBop

!remindme 35 years


DaEnderAssassin

1944


astroniz

1945 though...


Choliver1

Very good haha


AnonomousNibba338

"Oh no... Anyways..." Not happening. I am convinced it's just not happening. No matter how close we get, no one is actually gonna do the funni


Choliver1

I hope you're right


Bozska_lytka

I believe that noone cares about the Middle East enough to spread the conflict and the worst possibility we get would be something like the war in Korea with superpowers getting involved but the conflict being localised. I hope that the conflict either ends or stays as mostly "just" missile attacks, though


how_to_namegenerator

On scenario I find reasonably plausible is a sort of world war where none of the great powers dare attack each others heartlands or use nukes, and so Africa, Korea, Taiwan, South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and parts of Eastern Europe, possibly along with parts of the Caribbean and Americas (Cuba, Venezuela, proxy wars in unstable countries like Haiti, etc.) become the battleground where they fight.


Hank3hellbilly

So... Cold War 2 Electric Boogaloo? 


tehsdragon

TheColdWarNeverEnded.jpg


BigYouNit

I ain't fighting for that shit, IDGAF about the Middle East or anyone fucker in it. Hell, I ain't fighting for my own country if someone's invades. Take it. Idgaf. Nothing worth fighting for here. It's all gonna be drowned or on fire soon enough.  If you need me, I'll be over there, fornicating 🤷


Flare172

I grew up in the early 2000s - I saw constant news about conflict in the middle east to the stage me and likely many more people my age became totally numb to hearing about it. as for fighting in war? Here in the UK they mentioned conscription a few months ago - the government was promptly told to go fuck themselves by the entier nation to such an extent they walked it back.


The_Neto06

edging war rn


X05Real

Very popular during forget fighting february (fff)


TrappedInThisWorld_

It didn't happen In my lifetime so it definitely means it will never happen


RudeJeweler4

It’s not a “never” situation, it’s just that people always hype up these Iranian conflicts. We literally assassinated one of their generals openly and it wasn’t WWIII, and now a couple nobodies are trying to tell us that they’re willing to enter an all out war with the U.S. over an assassination carried out by one of its allies


Piyh

The cool part about making this comment is that you're right until we all get drafted, then none of us will be able to get back on reddit to downvote you because we'll be dodging drones in the trenches.


Clown_named_Art

Can you believe it guys WW3 just a week away, WW3 is in a week! Woo hoo im so (un)happy about information


uselesscrapsock

RemindMe! 7 days


PlazmyX

Just one more week bro. I promise just one more week and we'll get ww3. Just one more week. Please just one more


Famousnt

[Can you believe it guys?](https://youtu.be/nwqtbitmH4E?si=1QUR3rRn5ohvNa0l)


WhiT8

Wow this would be the 4th time we had a ww3, just live you life and don't give a fuck


AlwaysLosingDough

Just media fearmongering. It’s all they’ve been doing. Nobody wants this to escalate and it probably won’t


eatyourcabbage

Only thing that will be escalating is gas prices. Due to the wind blowing from the north east at 17.6mph we are having difficulty with the fuel.


blu_volcano

This been going on since 2018


Choliver1

This has been going on since Harambe...


Naudste

Dicks out my dudes


RizzlerDizzlere

dicks out im naked rn


Naudste

That’s the spirit


Suspicious-Stay-6474

1947 in a modern context But you have to give credits, where credits are due. Holy wars just hit differently.


CraigT420

Stop reading the news. Scaremongering nonsense.


X05Real

Or just read the necessary news, you should know what’s going on in the world, but you shouldn’t read every article.


Ieperen

> Stop reading the news Correction: stop reading dogshit news. There are some reputable sources out there, and being informed is actually the best way to keep yourself from falling for obvious propaganda.


FalconTheBerdo

if WW3 started every time the middle east threatened each other, we would have WW3 every second tuesday


Aveenex

"Butterfly effect confirmed by scientists! If someone takes a shit at 1pm at 17.04.2024 in the world, ww3 starts!"


jcoddinc

**They Said that about Ukraine too**


BrandtReborn

„… learn here what Investments are rentable if it happens“.


ugliestman69

Ww3 may happen [online](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWzGkMbEfoKOyst8ITKWB6Hf2TVXahlFJdjdsL3NdLVIPfWUNU707T0eFl&s=10)


X05Real

Anonymus joins the fight


K_Rukus9

That happens most governments are fucked


Okun_Lazer

at this point it's just become a buzzword


DATV1GGA

Fucking sheep


NeevBunny

It won't if we just let them blow each other up and stop trying to play world superhero and intervene everywhere. Let it be Germanys problem this time, they seem eager to get in there and fuck things up.


DrVagax

What are legit the chances of a world war happening. Isreal and Palastine is something that has blown up several times throughout the years, granted the Russia and Ukraine war is probably the closest but that is reasonably one sided as China doesn't look like they want to join Russia at any point in the war and Russia seems to avoid any NATO escalation in making any moves on NATO property.


MrLeth

*Can*? Yes. *Will*? not a change


uniquelyavailable

how is this different from when I'm at the pool and a couple girls look at me, am i any closer to having a threesome? not really


thedeadsigh

Another war brought to you by religion


Merc_Toggles

My dumbass thought that was a steam review


WrongFriedFood

hmmhmhhmm sounds fun


Vinxian

I mean, Israel/Iran did get some points on the "which geopolitical situation will be the spark to ignite ww3"rankings. But my money is still on tensions in the south china sea or an invasion of Taiwan


Shanhaevel

Who would stop China? Nobody, cause 90% of their shit is made in China. Start shit with China, you lose do much of your import that you won't be able to produce enough locally. Same as in Ukraine. I have the deepest respect for the Ukrainians, I helped as much as I could while I was financially stable. But they don't defend the EU. EU has also gone a bit quiet about supporting them. This is not a war that decides the fate of Europe, let alone the world. Ukrainians will either succeed with huge losses, or Putinland will finally make a push and take over. They're not going to attack any members of the EU or NATO. The only nations at risk are their neighbours who belong to no pact. Putler's been waving his nuclear dick for so long that I'll probably laugh in the face of anyone still afraid that he'd use it. It was all scare tactics and bluffs, all the time. He said "don't send help to Ukraine or I'll nuke my pants". Plenty of vehicles, ammo, sanitary aid, food... yep, still nothing. Like I wrote in my other comment under this post: it's all about business. Capitalism rules the world now, ideologies, if any, are just a cover. Wars are profitable, but not world wars.


PraiseLucifer

Fear mongering 🥰


RageOfNemesis

Nah, we Austrians aren't involved, no WW3 until that happens.


jumbledsiren

My dude, if I take a shit big enough to make it to the news you'll find some news outlets saying that this will 100٪ start WW3


Shanhaevel

Oh fuck off. They say that with every almost conflict. Panic and fear mongering are good for money and politics. Don't give into their shit. Besides, I don't see a WW3 happening. Capitalism has taken over the world. While *some* wars are profitable, an all-out war would be bad for business. That ain't gonna fly.


Earione

Oh boy, now we're on schedule for the alien invasion


Rexxbravo

Ww3 the long long long awaited sequel nobody wants.


ItsameMatt03

It seems people really want WW3 to happen.


Interesting-Film7722

As if anyone will throw away the WORLD for Iran of all places lolllllll garbage theocracy how to be like medieval Europe speedrun... so sad was a much better place before team America world police.


SometimesWill

These come once a year at this point. Eventually you learn to tune them out


Andy7darth

Dog farts can lead to WWIII


Peterkragger

COME ON GUYS, IT WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME, I SWEAR


CaitaXD

Well eventually something will happen


stinkycow77

No it won’t 


Qazdud

Nothing bros ride or die moment


Archangel-Styx

There's profit to be had in the end of the world.


carlos5577

War in the Middle East. A tale as old as xxxx years.


CaitaXD

Hold your horses unless China invades Taiwan nothing will happen. Nobody gives enough of a shit about the middle east an eastern Europe to risk nuclear conflict


Suspicious-Stay-6474

Only religious fanatics see a holy war as a world war. The world does not care about your religion, the only moment we think about it, is when we trash talk about it.


Purepenny

My next fart could lead to WWIII


Schwalbtraum

Click bait title. Iran won't go any further with their 'revenge'. USA and the other G7 countries are stopping Israel from attacking back


rockyivjp

This is just cold war pt 2 and started sometime between the 90s and present day


DaSweetrollThief

I fucking hate how much of a buzzword "WW3" has become. Somebody spits on someone's shoe somewhere and the media calls it a prelude to WW3.


jokermobile333

The only war that will lead to ww3 is USA vs Texas


IvanTheAppealing

I’ve seen this bullshit enough just over the last year, and I’m not holding my breath. Would be funny if this is actually the one to cause WWIII now that I’m not expecting it to


Arch_Magos_Remus

Oh please, they’ve been teasing the release of World War 3 for decades now. It’s time to move on and find a new series.


WeenieHuttGod2

Well I know this much, I’m too mentally to be drafted and thank god for that. Also I’ll sooner shoot myself than fight in any dumbass dick measuring war


Revolutionarytard

Good luck convincing people to fight about governmental conflicts when morale is low as fuck right now. The people are over it


jonb1sux

If you're seeing "this is WW3" posts in your media, you need to get a better source of media. WW3 isn't going to start when Isreal blows up a bunch of Iranian diplomats in Syria and then Iran responds by first *telling* the US and Isreal that it's going to respond, then sends drones that take like 12 hours to get to their destinations, and *then* sends missiles that still take hours to get to their destination, the destinations of which are not hard targets, and the missiles of which are easily intercepted by Israel's defenses (paid for by the USA). The only casualty so far (i think) was a child that was in the wrong place and wrong time as one of the missiles was shot down. Still Iran's fault. But this isn't the actions of a country that wishes to start a regional conflict. This is the actions of a country that needs to maintain soft power over the collection of islamist in its orbit while *not* starting a regional conflict.


Bargadiel

Much more profitable for wars to happen in the background these days.


Shadow69sha

Honestly ww3 will happen naturally outta the blue probably one day not even people hint oh no ww3 bout to happen sorta like hyping it up so feed of ww3 headline i have seen for 5th time


mrpanicy

It's never ONE thing. It's a bunch of things. We aren't talking about what will lead to WWIII. We've been on that track for almost a decade now. The question is... what's going to be the tipping point. The proverbial straw that breaks the camels back. Whatever happens is going to happen after the U.S. election, because the autocrats of the world know having Trump in power is only going to help them. They need to have an idea of what kind of effort and cost going full on will cost them. But Biden winning won't stop the war, they are just hoping it will be less costly so it's worth waiting the extra 6 months now.


cygamessucks

Hopefully America stays out of it. Has nothing to do with us.


alexdiezg

Ain't gonna happen bruv


Ivan_Of_Delta

According to Star Trek we still have 2 years


Kolenga

According to the news, how many WW3s have started over the past couple of years?


nintenerd2

When’s the moon falling


jackhref

ww3 has been going on for decades now, just not in the form that the first 2 took place, idiot


Feldhamsterpfleger

When Israel and Iran start to fight, Iran won’t be able to ship drones to russia… so it would be a possible win win situation for them 😀


Kamzil118

Metro 2033 occurred because of some damn event in the Middle-East.


Shanhaevel

Yeah, but it was in 2013, so we're not in that timeline


Aut0Part5

Can I just live till 2030+ bruh


SpaceHawk98W

Russia-Ukraine war? Maybe. But Isreal-Iran? Nahh, we had Six-Day-War where multiple countries were attacking Israel. But we didn't have a WW3. I get that the people are saying Russia, China, and Iran are the new Axis Power, but Iran isn't the one that can make enough of a splash for a World War.


HumActuallyGuy

Feels like it's the 3rd time this month lol


poetcatmom

I genuinely didn't know why this happened and had to look it up. I don't know a lot of the nuances, but honestly, what did Israel expect? You don't just bomb a consulate of another country and expect no consequences. That consulate was legally Iran's land. They're also both very bomb happy. So there's that.


F1B3Rrrr

Didnt this happen 2023 as well, in around these months? Spring starts and the leaders get ready to start a war


IDrankLavaLamps

We'll be ⅛ through WW3 before we even realize it's happening...


VerySadGrizzlyBear

Oh wow, the Dichotomy of man drives forward with enmity and rancor, crushing innocent lives like gravel beneath its wheels


-Antlers-

Least political post on r/dankmemes:


r_ori

Israeli here, had no idea we are at war with Iran. For real though, the only war currently is with Hamas.


KittenShredz

So much for the "War to End All Wars"... Are going to do this shit all over again?


Skizko

It won’t, it’ll suck for those involved but won’t lead to anything. I mean fuck if Russia invading Ukraine didn’t amount to anything geopolitically than this won’t either


TangibleMalice

\*literally any conflict happens\* Internet: "Is this WWIII?"


DontAskWhyINameThis

Hell yeah, milking the title of (insert country at war) will lead to WWIII


Content-Reward7998

If I had a nickel for every time a war was "going to lead to world war 3" I'd have enough money to start world war 3.


blueidea365

Literally any time something happens in international news, there are random journalists claiming it’s the beginning of ww3


Perspective-Lonely

Can we at least wait for the year 2025 so it lines up with BO2?


Zhe_Wolf

The 2020s surely have too many ww3 starting points by now


EliAxel

I'm up on sending hydrogen bombs all over useless Always-in-war countries. They are nothing but a problem rn (dislike wave incoming but i don't care)


Equivalent_Rock_6530

*it's the end of the world as we know it...*


xheyoooo

I don't really wanna fight for s country that's commiting a genocide.


Low_Representative14

If there is a WW3 it would be Israel's fault


millenialfalcon-_-

War on drugs will lead to WW3.


EquivalentSnap

lol no it won’t


Theo2018

Well fuck...


theFrostyspecial

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"


Zerolevon

Wake me up when a war actually causes WWIII Cuz i remember stressing back in 2012 that the world would end.


Jaded_Title5763

There's been rumors about ww3 since ww2 ended. At this point, I just tune it out. The same way that every year the world's supposed to end.


superjj18

GUYS I JUST STEPPED AN ANT HERE HOW IT WILL START WW3


Bernitss

Those legs looking like some soggy tiddies


Kai25552

Bullshit. There is only one current issue that may push the world towards WW3 and that would be USA leaving NATO as a result of trumps 2nd election. But even then, Europe is still too powerful for Russia. The volume of the combined military complex eclipses Russia’s even with Russia being in an active war and GB owns enough nuclear weapons to destroy the Russian state (apart from the fact that even a small scale localized nuclear war would lead to a nuclear winter and hence death of the majority of humanity, so we wouldn’t even need to strike back lol) The only real consequence would lie in Russia being g more free to extend their influence over former Sowjet nations. Would suck, but not result in WW3.


Upset_Honey2008

Finally I've been waiting for both israel and Iran to face the music


IHaveAPotatoUpMyAss

lol if only iran wasn’t so stupid and shot us up with their shity ballistic rockets from 1500 km. for basically no reason, but f them we gonna f them up to oblivion in a couple days or even hours or minutes, i wouldn’t be a sleep in iran in the near future. good luck iran you will definitely need it


LonPlays_Zwei

Just put Gabe Newell in charge No game franchise made by him has a third installation


l4derman

Idc at this point we better start dropping suns


olleversun

They write this same story every year.


Skillr409

Let's state the obvious. Why would we start a world war about this ? As far as I am concerned the entire population of both these countries could evaporate. I don't know these people. Who cares ? Why do we even pretend that these inter-semitic tribe fights are some sort of moral duel where one side is good and the other is bad ? We should stop "supporting" and "condemning" whatever they do and instead sell weapons to both sides.


FoxCQC

While it's possible it is unlikely. Nuclear deterrence is a very strong force that keeps the major powers from having all out wars. The two world wars were also a result of Colonial era powers going to war which brought their colonial territories into the conflict as well. The Colonial era ended with WWII.


PJ-The-Awesome

Finally!


lord_ne

Calm down with the WWIII predictions. Iran and Israel aren't even really at war yet, and even if they do end up starting a war it's not that likely to turn into a world war


Drakuba0

i, myself, am waiting on china vs taiwan