World War 3

A World War 3 scenario would be pretty apocalyptic. If one war breaks out, it improves the odds for another power to wage their offensive war successfully, leading to a chain reaction creating a pretty terrible conflict.

So if the US invades North Korea, then China is encouraged to secure critical territory in the Himalayas against India. If that happens, then the US assists India while Pakistan assists China. And when that happens, Afghanistan becomes hot again and Iran allies with China and Pakistan in the Middle East to go after the US. And when that happens, Saudi Arabia is dragged into the conflict, leading to an Iraq and Iran vs Gulf states conflict, with Israel and Turkey doing who knows what. And after all this fighting is happening, this is the perfect time for Russia to invade Europe and secure territory over Eastern Europe to rebuild their Orthodox Superpower.

It's like a domino effect. The moment the US becomes bogged down in a war, is the perfect opportunity to wage another war against a power, leading to a cascade of conflicts to ultimately overthrow Western supremacy.

Who will win?

Well, if ALL the powers decide to wage their war at once, we are inevitably going to have to choose which theaters to win and which theaters to lose. We can't win them all at once.

And that doesn't even begin to describe what would happen if things got nuclear.

There is a higher chance of NK nuking China than the US.

The dumfuk Chinease voted for sanctions on Korea, they won't take that well.

A Nuclear Korea is an independent Korea. A Nuclear Regime defeats the entire purpose of having a puppet border state in the first place.

yeh, there is another thread about just that topic.

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Well an invasion of NK is bound to go nuclear, therefore it won't happen.

People assume WW3 won't happen because of the destructive weapons that would be unleashed. As if that's ever stopped us before.
If it's in our arsenal, it's going to be used eventually. Nuclear weapons in particular will be used in one of two scenarios: the side that's losing, or the side that's at a disadvantage in a conventional war and uses them to even the odds, prompting retaliation.

If that's the threshold for nuclear weapons, Humanity isn't going to survive as a species. It would be best if we would self-remove ourselves from the galaxy.

Few possible outcomes
1) NK goes even more insane and actually launches something.
2) China/Pakistan, etc all go ballistic
3) False flag attack on America to stoke the fires even more

My bet is on #3, I wouldn't put it past the powers that be to pull something that large a scale. MSM would also cover it up too, like they do everything else.

WW3 will happen if and only if there is money to be made from it. So the question is. Who has the money, power and resources now, and who are the runner up to take control of these assets?
Until you have a clear answer to this question, no ww3 will happen.