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Title basically says it all. Would it depend if it was the US, Russia or China starting it?

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Russia and China being allies is a given. Iran and the DPRK will be on their side too.

Israel, the USA, Japan, and parts of Europe will no doubt be on the opposite side, with the more sensible parts of Europe staying out of it.

India I have no idea, they're nominally a USA ally, but I could also see them trying to stay neutral.

China world no doubt take the opportunity to reclaim the island of Taiwan.

I imagine a lot of Arab states would try to remain neutral at first, but Israel would probably take the opportunity to invade the rest of Syria, at which point some may be dragged into the conflict.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No, the US will not be on the side of Europe.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

India US relations have gone cold since Trump. Particularly with the +25% tariff for buying Russian oil which they perceive as unfair since

  1. India followed the US in sanctioning Iran in 2019 which is why they increased purchases of Russian oil.

  2. The West had set a price cap on Russian oil after the Ukraine war as everyone understood that completely banning its purchase would drive oil prices up undesirably.

  3. The Biden administration was explicit in acknowledging and accepting that India buy Russian oil. It was seen as necessary to stabilize the market.

  4. China buys more oil than India from Russia and faces no specific additional tariff.

  5. The EU continues to buy gas and the US buys uranium from Russia (which also allows them to continue to finance the war).

  6. The IMF (which is seen as an American/Western institution) continues to bail out Pakistan and the peception in India is that some of those funds will reach non-state actors who will perpetuate violence in India.

There are actually more reasons but India recently hosted Putin for a state visit and rolled out the red carpet for him. India and Russia have historically had good relations (the Soviet Union used its UN security council position to support India against postcolonial Western interference on several occasions) but this was friendlier than many were expecting and it is in large part due to the current US administration being inconsistent on trade policy and incompetent at diplomacy.

India's official stance is 'strategic autonomy' or multialignment but at least right now it seems to have more friends in the East than in the West.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for the info, I didn't realise India-US relations had become quite so dire.

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russia attacks EU, US stay neutral, US stay neutral, China leverage on Russia being busy to invade Eastern Russia, the conflict spread to former colonies where Russia, China, France, UK are already in cold war. Meanwhile, Turkey finally attack Greece, and Iran takes the opportunity gain influence most likely with their spy network.

As usual, America stays neutral, until US get dragged in the war (Taiwan or Israel) while Argentina wait for the last day to formally declare war. Not sure whether Japan would invade China or take back the Sakhaline island

TL/DR : Russia/Turkey/Israel versus EU/China/Iran.

As you see I am absolutely not an expert

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

WWI started with the assassination of a national leader that most people had never heard of, but it dominoed throughout the world into a conflagration that killed millions.

A nuclear war is more likely to start like that. Some dumb country gets their hands on a nuke or two, and what fun is a shiny new toy of you can't play with it? Once one goes off somewhere, it could spread fast, as nations either defend themselves, or seek revenge.

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Basically the movie House of dynamite

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, that's the thing. We had WW3 in the 1970s. Hitler came back, and he was riding a dinosaur, and Ghengis Khan was disco dancing the night away!

But you never heard about it because we have time travel, and decided that was a stupid timeline.

Oh, also, none of this timeline exists either. We deleted from existence in 2012.

The real timeline? Bernie Sanders won the 2016 and 2020 elections. Covid was a much easier thing to stop, because people got vaccinated.

And Dorritos bought Taco Bell, and IMMEDIATELY went bankrupt.

See? Everything is actually better now. You just never got to experience it.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Doritos did actually buy Taco Bell, in a sense.

Edit: that link still makes you do some digging, but here’s the Taco Bell part

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

America vs. the rest of the world is what it’s shaping up to be.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Nah, USA will team up with Russia

The rest of NATO will be on one team

As for China... probably just take taiwan and ignore the other theaters

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