• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    World war II wasn’t called “world war II” until 1944, future events will dictate weather we’re already living in the early war.
    There are Russian, North Korean, and Iranian troops fighting in Ukraine
    There’s conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine
    China is playing a game of brinkmanship with Taiwan and The Philippines.
    If things heat up, future historians may place the beginning of world war 3 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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      5 months ago

      The beginning would definitely be the Ukraine invasion, with things like Crimea and Syria pre-heating the oven, like Anschluss and the occupation of Sudetenland did before WW2.

      As interesting it is to watch world history unfold, I would very much prefer the “boring” but prosperous times we had in Europe for the decades before - hope to go back to that soon.