WWIII will not happen the way you think, it's already happening to some extent. The difference with before is that the EU is largely pacified, the middle east

WWIII will not happen the way you think, it's already happening to some extent. The difference with before is that the EU is largely pacified, the middle east only cares about Allah or not Allah, Russia cant invade its own backyard and is running out of teenagers to butcher. This leaves the US, India and China as the trifecta of dangerous war machines. China I think will prefer to lead internal struggles against common cold variants to "win" victories and softly annoys the two others to keep them at bay - the party doesnt care about the country, only its own survival, India has only an interest in border conflicts with China and doesnt have the ability to succeed at any serious escalation of violence so will always avoid them, and stay unaligned with the US. The US, you included as it s mostly americans proposing ideas of "world war" out of nostalgia for their golden past, has lost enough goodwill to be left alone before it can escalate, but is still trying hard to destabilize China - which means they care less about peace than removing the single party which annoys them to no end. I dont think we'll fall in the american trap, but who knows, the military complex pressure is so high they have to fire all these guns at some points to build new ones. Hope they stay at invading poor countries all around that have no chance to defend themselves.