After seeing all these games like MW3 and battlefeild 3 coming out and them being about WW3 it has been getting me thinking alot. There has already been 2 World Wars so what is stopping us from haveing a 3 world war? When will it happen? What countrys do you think will be involved? How do you think it will happen? Who do you think will win? Tell me what you think.
The only conflict I can see right now is a China v. The Democratic World war, as China is the last communistic Great Power in the world. It probably will be hard-fought, but victory will be inevitable.
Let me put it this way. Here's the 5 most powerful countries on Earth.
1. The USA 2. Russia 3. The PRC 4. The UK 5. France
Three out of five of those countries are NATO members, and the other hates China more than NATO. Stalinist Communists and Maoist Communists were not friends (See Mongolia).
With the power of nearly every other Great Nation backed up by the full military might of the sole superpower, The United States, China would be defeated relatively quickly.
How would this start? I have no idea. In all honesty, the above is just the most probable WW3 scenario. The world probably won't have another World War for quite some time, no one wants to clean up after one of those, and the world is too interdependent to worry about killing each other.