Will there ever be another World War?

[Aesir23]

Maybe it's just my inner pessimist but I view another World War as inevitable. Sure, it may not be in our lifetimes but with the clusterfuck that is international politics, I would not be surprised at all if it happened eventually.

Well, currently international politics are relatively stable, but even if there's a 0.1% chance per year of WW3 cropping up, if humanity is still here in a few thousand years...

I agree that international politics are quite stable at the moment even if it doesn't seem like it at times. I just meant that someone in the hopefully distant future might do something to cause a bit of a chain reaction and start another World War. Sort of similar to how World War I became as grand in scale as it was.

 

[skywolfblue]

So what do you think? Is another world war inevitable? How soon?

Absolutely. Maybe not in the next decade, maybe not in the next century, but World War will happen again.

We are already embroiled in wars of economics and politics, the casualties of which are the populations of 3rd world countries, so the news media and the first world countries at large pretend like it's not a problem. But the illusory peace will not last forever.

Will it definetly be fought with nuclear weapons? And why?

MAD works nicely as long as A) There is a decent balance of power B) Both sides feel that they have more to lose, then they'd have to gain. That held true for the Soviets and Americans, but if pushed I think many smaller nation states would have no compunction over using nukes, even if it meant the annihilation of their own state.