For decades following the end of the Second World War, the notion of a “World War III” remained a spectral threat—conjured in nuclear nightmares and Cold War scenarios but never materialising. Yet in the third decade of the twenty-first century, the phrase is once again entering public discourse, not as hyperbole but as a legitimate subject of geopolitical analysis. The convergence of high-intensity regional conflicts, sharpening great power competition, and the erosion of arms control regimes h
  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Good article, this part is spot on:

    “One plausible counterargument is that World War III has already begun, not in traditional military terms but as a global competition in the grey zone: cyber warfare, information operations, economic coercion, sabotage and proxy conflict. In this view, the world is already engaged in diffuse, hybrid struggle, where traditional concepts of war and peace are no longer applicable.”