People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
Probably not, but all it takes is a series of unfortunate human and mechanical errors to trip it. As mentioned earlier, all war has a minimum required infrastructure cost too, if it can't be upheld then war beyond a point is unsustainable, not to mention unprofitable for those making money off death.
WW3 will be different than other wars, like a draft for example, no need when you have drones, cyberwarfare and all sorts of different bombs, but you will need 'a draft' for any sort of rebuilding project afterward for whatever's left, assuming it doesn't go drop-all nuclear right away.
I assume it'll be faster than wars historically are for the most part since JIT and long drawn out wars don't mix, especially when you go to war with the few industrial nations as an de-industrialized one. War is material, even thinking bad thoughts on the internet about the other side requires energy. However, I can see an attempt to bypass this by using rebuilding and ceasefires as a cover to get infrastructure in place (reindustralize to some degree possibly in the imperial core) to continue the war. Something like that could continue on if the US balkanized for whatever reason.