I wonder how world war 3 will go down. Lets suppose China and America go to war with each and they don't use WMDs. Do China and America have enough fuel to maintain military operations for seven years (the length of World War II)? How could we even get enough fuel? It seems to me like international trade would be fucked up and domestic production could be destroyed. If China wanted to, they send an attack sub and blow up some oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico or dump a missile in the oil fields of Texas. But the same could be said for China, America could send stealth bombers to destroy Chinese oil reserves. But what if we run out of bombs? It is my understanding that during the Gulf War, America was running out of missiles because the expenditure was so high.
Really my question is how could two super powers even sustain a world war? It seems like the war machines would consume lots of resources fast and destroy each others ability to produce/supply those resources.
It wouldn't be like World War II where Germany had no oil and long range bombers. America had the oil and thousands of supply ships and an unsinkable ship (Britain) to base it all on. America could touch Germany, but not vice versa. I don't think the same scenario would happen with modern technology.
World war 3 won't last 7 years. I highly doubt it would last even 6 month imo. Conventional weapons today are too powerfull, and armies are too mobile. When a single rocket artillery or bomber can wipe out square kilometers of land, and we have thousands of them...well, the only thing i can say for sure is that this war won't last long.
Considering Russia wants to take every country and Putin is becoming the new Hitler. This is the start right here.
[QUOTE=spectator1;44568861]Considering Russia wants to take every country and Putin is becoming the new Hitler. This is the start right here.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather say Stalin instead of Hitler. In comparison, Adolf had very different intentions and different executions to his operations.
On-topic, though, I'd say that either Russia or North Korea launches a nuke or something. I'd guess that North Korea wants to take over everything without realizing they're a tiny nation.
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