All is possible. Depends on which group they want to prop up with the stuff
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Right. WW3 is coming, soon. Or is it already here?
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WW3 already started via attacks upon Ukraine and Middle East. China and US cannot fight directly and so are fighting via proxies. They cannot declare open conflict because in the case of US it would paralyze so many large US corporations via the Trading with the Enemy Act. Days before the Ukraine invasion China and Russia signed a treaty guaranteeing mutual support of their ambitions in Ukraine and Taiwan. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/russia-and-china-unveil-a-pact-against-america-and-the-west Iran and Russia are only still viable economies moreover capable of significant military aggression because of Chinese enabling ongoing trade (primarily but not only oil/gas sales) despite US sanctions in the case of Iran going back more than a decade. China is openly challenging US hegemony and it gets cheap oil and captive markets for many of its manufactured goods into the deal while US pays a high price to support Ukraine and Israel. Losing/surrendering the oil resources of Iraq is another US loss in this unfolding war between USA and China over global resource hegemony.
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By this definition WW3 already happened during Cold War, when USA and USSR were fighting via proxies.
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Had WW2 begun when Hitler invaded Poland? Britain was not yet involved. Did WW2 only begin after Pearl Harbour? It can be argued China and Japan begun their respective roles in WW2 in 1937 with Japans brutal invasion of China upon the Nanjing massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre My argument is that at the very least least for Russia, Ukraine and Israel and multiple combatant groups aligned against Israel in the Middle East, WW3 has begun...and they are all only able to engage in such conflict on such a scale because they are backed by either China or the USA.
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My argument is that at the very least least for Russia, Ukraine and Israel and multiple combatant groups aligned against Israel in the Middle East, WW3 has begun...and they are all only able to engage in such conflict on such a scale because they are backed by either China or the USA.
And how exactly this differs from USA vs USSR proxy wars during Cold War?
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When I meant WW3, I kind of meant an all out war. Not small skirmishes.
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I would not call Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan small skirmishes.
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Yet China still hasnt made a move on Taiwan?
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