Is WW3 going to happen?
Do you believe this will happen or not, thoughts and who would get involved and what timescale?
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Just to trigger people even more, let's remember (Agree? Nahh, I don't expect that from SW xD) that Putin's end-game can only be to break apart NATO, alienate USA from her allies, debilitate any response and nuke the hell out of USA. Any other outcome is ultimately against Putin's interests, and the ideology of Russian neo-imperialism. It will also do a lot for the contention of resources/climate that most world leaders are secretly well informed on - just by mathematical rules of the Doomsday Paradox (What conspiracy minded call Agenda 21). What's more, most parts of this Russian strategy are already in place, although Putin has clearly been playing the long game.
Ultimately, in the usual philosophical BS wrangling, the answer to your question depends on what one means by "WW3" and "going to happen".
Again, logic suggests that the final showdown of countries (of at least current civilization) will eventually happen, though we don't know the date.
If World War is defined as "conflict in which most or all major countries are involved in", as it's commonly defined, then Cold War and War Against Terrorism at least were already World Wars.
They're just not called World Wars, because the common conception is that you can't have WW3 without nuclear annihilation. Now, if your question is actually "Is there going to be a conflict in which most of all humans die soon", we get to invoke other philosophical/logical concepts. Survivorship bias, for example, which says you don't get to say "I was right" if you're dead.
Predicting all humans won't die is always "safe" correct prediction, because it's going to be true as long as you're alive to make the prediction. In no way does this indicate that you cannot die, and all it takes is one instance of being wrong.
Ultimately, in the usual philosophical BS wrangling, the answer to your question depends on what one means by "WW3" and "going to happen".
Again, logic suggests that the final showdown of countries (of at least current civilization) will eventually happen, though we don't know the date.
If World War is defined as "conflict in which most or all major countries are involved in", as it's commonly defined, then Cold War and War Against Terrorism at least were already World Wars.
They're just not called World Wars, because the common conception is that you can't have WW3 without nuclear annihilation. Now, if your question is actually "Is there going to be a conflict in which most of all humans die soon", we get to invoke other philosophical/logical concepts. Survivorship bias, for example, which says you don't get to say "I was right" if you're dead.
Predicting all humans won't die is always "safe" correct prediction, because it's going to be true as long as you're alive to make the prediction. In no way does this indicate that you cannot die, and all it takes is one instance of being wrong.