I love when I bring up the growing tensions in the South China seas, people are like "whatever, nothing new."
My bet stands firm that the South China Sea will be the flashpoint for WWIII. Likely within the year. Certainly before 2031.
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I agree that region will play a key part. But I think that the domino that sends the rest falling is going to be Canada annexing Greenland. Nobody is expecting it, and it won't be long before Greenland is actually green so it makes sense from a territorial perspective. But the sudden shift is going to make Great Britain nervous, and they'll take Iceland in response as a buffer against Canuck imperialism. While they're distracted in the north, Argentina will be all "fucking FINALLY" and take the Falklands. China of course will have taken Taiwan by this time and things will be very chaotic.
But while everyone is busy stealing land, pointing fingers, and disseminating misinformational propaganda, Antarctica will have had enough. Sayonara, big-ass ice shelf. Hello, ~1m (or more!) sea level rise. Suddenly those islands don't seem so important.
In any case, King Trump/Biden the First will seize the opportunity and invade Antarctica, treaty or no, as recompense for Florida, the Mississippi River delta, and most of NJ. Which will turn out to be very prescient when it's realized that the frozen (for now) fresh water is more valuable than the oil they went after in the first place.
You know... When Trump talked about buying Greenland everyone was gobsmacked.
My, admittedly uninformed take, is that Putin wants the US, and Greenland... And Canada. Because that's like >50% of the land on earth.
That's about as deep as I thought about it.
6th front of WW3 in antarctica...ugh...
The new North African campaign.
haha, I was thinking about that exactly.
I strongly doubt it will be within a year
Trump is pro-China so if he wins then no retaliation will occur and Europe will be busy with Russia
If Biden wins then they can just wait
India is the only nation that can put up a fight there and they don’t care about the other countries