scarecrow350 said:
-less developed countries revolting against the more developed countries
(answer question one in the poll, the others are in case you wanted more of an input)
Ok, we already know your bias.
The Palestinians finally flip and throw the Israeli's from their land ...
And yours...
China will remind the U.S who owns them ...
Ummm, why?
China has a good vested interest in Israel: They provide Israel with cheap labour and Israel provides then with technology as well as securing a friend while they invest in East Africa.
World War I - Germany gets a mad on.
The Great war was instigated by Serbia and Austro-Hungary saw the cassus belli as a chance to annex Serbia which set off the chain of alliances throughout Europe.
Serbia-Austria-Russia-Germany-France-Germany Invades Belgium-Britain.
Meanwhile, Russia and China might very well side with Iran just to have a go at America.
Playing too much CoD.
I'd say food and water scarcity caused by climate change leading to a bit of the ol' ultraviolence neo-colonialism.
Of what economical benefit would that bring?
Empires were unprofitable long before de-colonization took place and it was that fact that was a strong motivator for Europe's empires to cast them off.
Correct except for France being conquered. Austria-Hungary asked Germany to help who took the chance to invade France who asked Britain to declare war on Germany.
Wrong
Britain was the guarantor of Belgian neutrality and it was the invasion through that kingdom that led to their involvement in the war, though Britain had already been warming up to the Entente for years due to the rise of the Imperial German Navy.
Yeah, rather surprisingly, France was on the backfoot for most of the war... pretty much until the third phase from 1420-ish onwards. IMO the Burgundians were idiots...
France dwarfed England both in size and population. It didn't matter how well the English could do in battle, they lacked force to occupy the country.
Besides, being thrown out of France eventually benefited England from freeing it from Continental holdings and thus it being their main focus of attention, to culturally where the progressive loss of the war saw the resurrection of the English language and was no longer in the shadow of the French aristocracy.
Though it's generally regarded that we would of happily igorned the Belgian alliance if we hadn't wanted a chance to attack Germany, since Germany and Britain were major rivals on the world stage.
Belgium was what little they had separating France from Germany. Therise of the German Empire threw British balance of power out the window where the Germanies were the battlefield of Europe where east fought west, now Central Europe was a power that was quick outpacing the elder Great Powers.
The arms race (which gave us the machine gun, the aeroplane, the dreadnought etc) in the early part of the century was really one of the reasons most of Europe was ready and seemingly eager to kill on such an industrial level.
Machine guns were in existence decades before the turn of the century.
Flight wasn't driven by the needs of war until it proved it was capable of actually doing something more than carry a man or two in the air.
The Dreadnought was inevitable as it was a natural combination of fire control, turbines and guns.
Most major powers had Dreadnought-like ships on paper and American and Japan were actively moving towards that end as Satsuma and South Carolina showed (Satsuma would have been first had it not been for a lack of available unified guns which resulted in a mixed battery of heavies; South Carolina lacked turbines).
My bet is North Korea does something insanely stupid and the US and South Koreans invade and take over the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea is contained and is dying out.
The NorKs have several tens of thousands of artillery pieces aimed at Seoul. The city, and thus South Korea (due to the typical centralization around the capital of developing countries) will be wiped out.
No one wants that and top of that, the South Koreans are waking up to the fact that they'll tied to a corpse should unification be realized. That and the usual NorK behaviour are why the recent young adult generation of waking up and cooling off calls for such a thing to take place.
You can do the rest but the Axis would consist of China, Russia, Iran , North Korean resistance, and possible others.
China and Russia are just as much rivals as China is to the United States and that has been the case ever since the 60s.
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Ok.
My answer:
If we're going to be nuclear, then it'll arise from Pakistan/India due to the simple fact that India will be forced to launch against both Pakistan and China due to the knowledge that China will launch once they detect East Indian missiles flying.
The time to establish the trajectory of ballistic missiles is longer than ones ability to fire them.
That sets off Russia not knowing where the Chinese missiles are going and launches against them and Europe and American because they know they'll launch once China and Russia do.
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Non-nuclear would be the appearance of engineered global pandemics.
? Just a little misconception that the Korean War stopped. It's just on pause. For now...
