Whispering Death
Active member
We've gone through three world wars, two hot and one cold, and we are not in the midst of the fourth world war on terror.
But what will World War V look like? Here's my take.
I do not think the U.S. will play a major roll in WWV. I think that after the breakup of the soviet union there is still a good deal of the power pie that still no one occupies. At the same time there are a lot of new up and comming powers all growing more powerful. So I think the next world war will occur when two of these newer powers begin to bump into eachother on the power pie graph. Who are these up and comming powers all trying to match the US? China, Russia, India, and some sort of EU (maybe not in its current configuration).
Why do I not think America will be directly involved? America has not grown, in my opinion, into all the power that it could have. America, to me, apears to have struck a ballance between enough power to keep the world from screwing with it but without over extending itself like imperialist England for example. So if we envision power as a finite resource, America currently has as much as it wants but there is still power out there that no one yet owns. I envision the problem will be the fight for the #2 spot in world affairs and that will be akin to world war five.
But what will World War V look like? Here's my take.
I do not think the U.S. will play a major roll in WWV. I think that after the breakup of the soviet union there is still a good deal of the power pie that still no one occupies. At the same time there are a lot of new up and comming powers all growing more powerful. So I think the next world war will occur when two of these newer powers begin to bump into eachother on the power pie graph. Who are these up and comming powers all trying to match the US? China, Russia, India, and some sort of EU (maybe not in its current configuration).
Why do I not think America will be directly involved? America has not grown, in my opinion, into all the power that it could have. America, to me, apears to have struck a ballance between enough power to keep the world from screwing with it but without over extending itself like imperialist England for example. So if we envision power as a finite resource, America currently has as much as it wants but there is still power out there that no one yet owns. I envision the problem will be the fight for the #2 spot in world affairs and that will be akin to world war five.