"A world war is an international conflict which involves all or most of the world's major powers." Says Wikipedia.
What about these? :
Afghanistan - not settled Irak - not completely settled Libya - not settled Syria - not settled Mali/Central Africa Republic/some other African countries attached to former French colonial territory that now has to fight every now and then with the African branch of Al Quaida or the Islamic State - not settled Armenia - Azerbaijan - not settled (only frozen at the moment) Balkan states - nothing left behind from the destruction of Yugoslavia solved (conflict only rests because of the locally-present KFOR troops)
Growing or existing political tensions which every now and then are getting fueled:
Saudi Arabia - Israel - Iran China - Taiwan China - Japan - US Grusiya (Georgia) - Russia Greece - Türkiye Türkiye - Kurdish people Baltic States and Poland - Russia DPRK (North Korea) - South Korea The whole so-called "Western community" consisting of merely 24 countries in the world - Russia Western community (some more openly, some less frankly) - China US - China US - Russia Islamic State - rest of the world (especially the Western part of the world)
Wars already taking place openly:
Saudi Arabia - Yemen - open war with no end in sight yet Syria - the radical Islamist groups haven't been erased completely from the territory yet (and from the whole Middle East region) Ukraine - Russia - with strong background support from NATO countries (esp. the US, Poland & the Baltic states) for Ukraine; and limited assistance from Iran, Syria & the DPRK for Russia
If taking all that together, or just overseeing it on the world map - that's a whole lot of potential left for escalation, and if just parts of that should happen, there is no question anymore about if being a world war because is is one. The point you might not see from your US-socialized view is: World Wars didn't only mean "war between world powers" but also "war over a large scale of territory of planet earth".
WWII set Europe from Lisbon to Moscow and the Bosporus in flames, Hitler even tried to get support for his "final solution of the Jewish question" at the Grand Mufti of Palestine, and then on the other side of the globe, it set Japan to China and the Korean peninsula and Japan all the way down almost until Australia and to the East to Pearl Harbor in flames. Adding the various endeavors of The Third Reich and fascist Italy in Mostly (North-)Africa to "gain new living space". (e. g. Italy was in Libya).
The whole world was practically involved in any of the activities of the powers who were attempting for world domination and the way of life they deemed as "the right one".
And that's the picture that I see coming together here in the rpesent too. Lots of tensions, some on a local base, but even more with the potential to expand to general conflicts that will safely involve bigger "players" too. Why is that? Because the US-dominated world has reached the point of overextension. There is no more space to grow into other than to steal another party's share of the cake in order to increase one's own overall share of it. In a physical world with limits, this is the way things become sooner or later. All the terrotories have been defined, but the territories under one's own control don't offer enough material for growth anymore. So there is the need for expansion against someone else's will - in order to generate new growth. And those areas still not harvested by the mighty and powerful of the US circles lie in Central and East Asia, which have raised up under the star of Communism in the last century and founded their own circles of mighty and powerful people.
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What about these? :
Afghanistan - not settled
Irak - not completely settled
Libya - not settled
Syria - not settled
Mali/Central Africa Republic/some other African countries attached to former French colonial territory that now has to fight every now and then with the African branch of Al Quaida or the Islamic State - not settled
Armenia - Azerbaijan - not settled (only frozen at the moment)
Balkan states - nothing left behind from the destruction of Yugoslavia solved (conflict only rests because of the locally-present KFOR troops)
Growing or existing political tensions which every now and then are getting fueled:
Saudi Arabia - Israel - Iran
China - Taiwan
China - Japan - US
Grusiya (Georgia) - Russia
Greece - Türkiye
Türkiye - Kurdish people
Baltic States and Poland - Russia
DPRK (North Korea) - South Korea
The whole so-called "Western community" consisting of merely 24 countries in the world - Russia
Western community (some more openly, some less frankly) - China
US - China
US - Russia
Islamic State - rest of the world (especially the Western part of the world)
Wars already taking place openly:
Saudi Arabia - Yemen - open war with no end in sight yet
Syria - the radical Islamist groups haven't been erased completely from the territory yet (and from the whole Middle East region)
Ukraine - Russia - with strong background support from NATO countries (esp. the US, Poland & the Baltic states) for Ukraine; and limited assistance from Iran, Syria & the DPRK for Russia
If taking all that together, or just overseeing it on the world map - that's a whole lot of potential left for escalation, and if just parts of that should happen, there is no question anymore about if being a world war because is is one.
The point you might not see from your US-socialized view is: World Wars didn't only mean "war between world powers" but also "war over a large scale of territory of planet earth".
WWII set Europe from Lisbon to Moscow and the Bosporus in flames, Hitler even tried to get support for his "final solution of the Jewish question" at the Grand Mufti of Palestine, and then on the other side of the globe, it set Japan to China and the Korean peninsula and Japan all the way down almost until Australia and to the East to Pearl Harbor in flames.
Adding the various endeavors of The Third Reich and fascist Italy in Mostly (North-)Africa to "gain new living space". (e. g. Italy was in Libya).
The whole world was practically involved in any of the activities of the powers who were attempting for world domination and the way of life they deemed as "the right one".
And that's the picture that I see coming together here in the rpesent too.
Lots of tensions, some on a local base, but even more with the potential to expand to general conflicts that will safely involve bigger "players" too.
Why is that?
Because the US-dominated world has reached the point of overextension. There is no more space to grow into other than to steal another party's share of the cake in order to increase one's own overall share of it.
In a physical world with limits, this is the way things become sooner or later. All the terrotories have been defined, but the territories under one's own control don't offer enough material for growth anymore. So there is the need for expansion against someone else's will - in order to generate new growth.
And those areas still not harvested by the mighty and powerful of the US circles lie in Central and East Asia, which have raised up under the star of Communism in the last century and founded their own circles of mighty and powerful people.