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.

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    thinking like plague

    Another possibility is a bioweapon that's sickening nature on steroids: multiple sicknesses in one. Like a mashup of a respiratory illness plus you disease where you die a gruesome death a à la Marburg.

    What is Marburg? This Virus Causes Victims to Bleed From Every Orifice and Die

    Another possibility is - I'll call it - blackmail war. Country A and Country B are two weeks into a "normal" war when troops and citizens of Country B start coming down with a respiratory illness. Country A then says (privately or perhaps publically) to Country B - we've secretly infected your troops and the citizens of your five largest cities with covid-marburg.

    Surrender now and we'll give you the antidote. Otherwise most of your your troops will die, a few million of your citizens will bleed out from every orifice and die in the next ~7 days, and we'll win anyway. You have 10 hours to comply.