What would a third world war really look like?

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Just watching the 10 o'clock news on BBC1 and it would appear any strike on Syria by the US (+ UK and France) might lead to a 'strong response' from Russia. Even a Tory MP stating this could easily switch from a Cold War to a Hot War with Russia.

So if Trump and friends launch a strike in the next 48 hours what choices do Russia actually have? I'm assuming/hoping it won't be nuclear and all-out war - but maybe an attack on foreign interests leading to a proxy war? I'm beginning to wonder how far this thing can go.
 
Russia attacks any of nato it’s nuclear war and end of the world as we know it.

“I know not what weapons world war 3 will be fought with, but world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones”

Saw that quote in a CoD4 loading screen and it’s stuck with me since I was a 14 year old.

To summarise it’s really not good news.
 
Syria already is largely a proxy war these days, I don’t think things will change even if the US overtly attacks Syrian forces directly in a minor fashion. Full scale invasion will never happen so I don’t see Russia doing anything.
 
personally i don't think there'll be full scale nuclear war.

all the countries powerful enough to get that kind of ball rolling properly are all too cognisant of the consequences and will try anything they can to avoid it.

even if trump and putin are crazy enough to do it, the regimes of both countries are bigger than 1 man

the worst case for nuclear war is some nutjob with a nuke (hence why everyone's tetchy about nk because kim's just crazy enough to actually launch)
 
We're far more likely to see extreme cyber warfare than anything involving nuclear weapons.

Imagine for example an attack on a nation's banking institutions and stock markets, causing financial meltdown
 
trigg_27 said:
We're far more likely to see extreme cyber warfare than anything involving nuclear weapons.

Imagine for example an attack on a nation's banking institutions and stock markets, causing financial meltdown
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Or nuclear power generation - causing an actual meltdown

Though modern designs are meant to 'fail safe' as it were
 
Mason- said:
Russia attacks any of nato it’s nuclear war and end of the world as we know it.
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Not really. If it comes down to it and article 5 is enacted causing all of NATO to get involved then any Russian aggression would be easily kerb-stomped by the combined might of NATO conventional forces. If nuclear weapons are deployed and are used then it would be more than likely Russia using their tactical nukes. If they ever do that though, well yeah....
 
VincentHanna said:
I watched Threads as a teenager and it scared the absolute crap out of me.

It would be horrendous

But we were told Hilary was the warmonger?
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I remember Threads. Bizarrely and rather specifically, the melting milk bottle and a woman wetting herself while looking at a mushroom cloud! Will stay with me forever! There was also an old film called Day After Tomorrow (something like that) which was more about survivors in the US. Both frightening. To be honest, I can't decide which is the lesser evil, nuclear war or conventional with all the misery which goes with it (conscription, POWs.. general devastation) as opposed to being reduced to ash in seconds (bar the unfortunate few).

What a glum thread for a late Monday evening.
 
The most depressing thing I ever saw about the aftermath of a nuclear attack was an animation called When the Wind Blows. So sad and, at the time, shocking...yes even worse for me than Grave of the Fireflies. No one would win in any real full scale third world war involving nuclear weapons, so I'd guess the logical forms of attack would be destabilisation using cyber terrorism.
 
Tauren said:
is nuclear war really a possible outcome ? :/ I mean. Is anybody actually dumb enough to start the ball rolling.
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i suspect not, before the internet it was easy for the propaganda machine to convince us that those capitalist pigs/commie cowards were fundamentally different people who really did all hate us.

nowadays the world's too connected (at least the areas of the world who matter in terms of nuclear capability) and the will of the people just isn't there.
 
lunar said:
We have World peace due to nuclear weapons. It is a deterrent, which inhibits a full scale war.
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I think it's a bit of a stretch to pin peace solely on nuclear armaments. I'd like to think that we've come along a fair way as a global community. Sure, there will always be disagreements, but the might is right viewpoint surely isn't the way most powers think these days.
 
Threads is an all time classic, when the wind blows and the day after tomorrow are also great and well worth watching.

Thing is Russia knows they would get humped in anything other than a nuclear war so its all talk and bluster, cyber warefare would be where they turn if the west decides it really has had enough of assad and obliterates his infrastructure and fighting force with a rain of cruise missiles.
 
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