this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
-5 points (42.9% liked)

Asklemmy

49218 readers
1019 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A brief history of WW3:

  • 2014: Russia annexes a small piece of Ukraine
  • 2022: Russia invades Ukraine, leading to ongoing fighting
  • 2023: Hamas attacks Israel, leading to ongoing Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza
  • 2024: Iran attacks Israel, Israel attacks Iran, China attacks Taiwan. US supports Taiwan with munitions, similar to Ukraine
  • 2025: China shoots down a US Satellite, bringing the US (directly) into the war. Naval fighting over Indonesia and Pacific Islands
  • 2026: people finally start calling it WW3
  • 2027-??: hard to say