It’s not a real world war unless it comes from the Germany region of Europe. Otherwise it’s just sparkling slaughter.
As I see it, WWIII started with the Nakba.
Don’t you know? It’s only a World War if Europe is at war. Israel and the US can be at war with half a dozen countries and that’s just business as usual!
I think we can do away with the version numbers, it is more of a continuously developping project of trying to kill off the bad half of humanity and then steal their shit.
*other half…
The other half is always the bad half because those who would halve humanity need a common enemy to exercise the power of this halving to begin with. It also doesn’t matter which half you’re in, that’s always going to be the good half, unless yoi’re a traitor of course. Or a nihilist, in which case both halves bad.
How many independent conflicts intersecting with various allied factions need to exist before it constitutes a World War, I wonder.
Not a real world war without rationing.