Honestly, should we even call it WW3? It feels like WW1 and WW2 were pretty tied in to one another, so it made sense for WW2 to be the sequel to WW1. But it’s been 80 years since WW2 and the world created by its end, while still heavily impacted by WW2, has had so much happen within it that any global conflict would feel like the result of the Cold War or the War on Terror more than the Second World War.

Especially because it just won’t be a World War. As in nearly every nation involved. The reason it could really be a world war back then was because of how much land the Allies and Axis were fighting for (all of SEA Asia, Oceania, East Asia, Continental Europe, and North/East Africa). Whereas now, with so many independent nations, I don’t see the same level of global conflict occurring at such a scale across so much of the world.