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A third world war is a certainty. The question is when. The world's resources can only sustain a number of us. To date there are already 6.6 billion of us, consuming more food than we can produce. The earth's climatic change (also attributed by the growing population) will further reduce the ability to regenrate food. Even now, prices have increased at unprecendented rates. Shortages are happening all around the world. Yes, it is a certainty. Let pray it is not in our life time.........


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A third world war is really not a certainty as the weapons used to engage in wars now are so incredibly destructive that any conflict involving major world powers would almost certainly destroy all interested parties, plus a few that never had anything to do with the conflict.

This is known as MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction and it's the paradigm that prevented the Cold War from becoming a hot war for over 50 years.

The Soviets and the United States (and all allies) knew that any direct conflict between the two nations would be likely to escalate and that victory over one another wasn't truly a viable option because as soon as one of the two powers felt sufficiently backed into a corner, the nuclear weapons would come out. In this way, there couldn't be a winner but everyone could lose.

Mutually Assured Destruction - regardless of who won or lost, the result would be the same. Both empires would be destroyed.

This was the case when nuclear weapons were first discovered and it remains the case now.

Because of this, it's unlikely that any major powers would ever truly engage in a zero-sum conflict again.

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