Robert Farley, National Interest: Check Out All of the Places World War III Could Start in 2019
Any guesses?
The flashpoints may change over time, but the fundamental foundations of conflict—the decay of U.S. military hegemony and of the global international order that has accompanied it—mean that the near future will likely become more hazardous than the recent past.
The world has avoided war between major power war since 1945, even if the United States and the Soviet Union came quite close on several occasions during the Cold War. In the first two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, great power war seemed virtually unimaginable. Today, with China’s power still increasing and Russia’s rejection of the international order apparently complete , great power conflict is back on the menu.
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WNU Editor: I just do not see World War III breaking out anywhere right now. Even a major war .... on the Korean peninsula, Pakistan-India, etc. .... the odds of that happening in the near future are remote at best. But I also know that one should never say never. There is always the possibility of something unpredictable happening that can change everything.