Is world war 3 about to happen

[Clutteredmind]

No scare mongering
just seen a post that said WW3 is about to happen and the UK will be involved. Something about trump.
is it true

No that was about swimwear not burkas

@Worldgonecrazy oh I missed that what happened

Hope Starmer has the sense to keep us out of war as mentioned above but Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear bomb as he's said doesn't sound like keeping out of the horrors of war Wish we had a prime minister who would protect our country not follow America but it's not looking like that

And a high risk threat. It’s surprising some are after that.

America and Israel both have nuclear weapons, not sure their leaders are the most trustworthy to have ownership of such weapons

It’s actually very likely now. We have to hope that we don’t get dragged into it. Trump is fueling the fire.

Reading some of the comments on here today it seems that plenty of mumsnetters side with Iran. Maybe they should do a bit of research into what it’s like living under the Iranian Regime, how it came to power and what life is like for women in Iran now compared to how it was prior to the establishment of the republic in 1979. Go look up some photos of life in Iran before and after the revolution.

It’s not Israelis or the Jewish people who believe this - it’s some fundamental Christians in the US.

I think it’s unlikely. There have been several serious Middle East wars, and none have come close to breaking out into global conflicts. China, India and Russia are the big players that could tip things over. China has significant Middle East interests, but seems unlikely to pitch in militarily and isn’t currently showing any signs of doing so, ditto India. Russia may well be involved in misinformation and weapons deals with Iran, but they are already engaged in Ukraine and know that expanding that war into NATO countries would result in a concerted response that they would find hard to counter.

Of course, we have a lot of very unstable megalomaniac men sitting on a lot of nuclear weapons, so if any of them push that button we are probably all doomed. But that’s been the case for a while so I choose to hope the threat of mutually assured destruction will prevail.

More chances of getting run over by a bus, than WW3.

No. WW3 would require military conflict directly involving China IMO. As long as China is out of the picture, any “anti-Western” force is lacking a sufficiently powerful (economically and militarily) figurehead to give them a fighting chance. China is not going to ride to Iran’s rescue at the expense of its obliterating its own economy and possible complete social upheaval. If China was as hawkish as some of the right wing Western propagandists like to suggest THEN the world really would be fucked.

yep. I’ve seen many strange posts lately in support of Iran. On here and online. Many of them written by pro Palestinian demonstrators. It’s another way to hate the Jews.
What a weird world we inhabit.
Odd people on the internet presenting a sympathetic, idealised picture of Iran, a dangerous regime which actively abuses women.

Only two ways this ends. Iran accepts its lesson. Iran gets battered a bit more and then accepts its lesson. I expect the Iranian regime is just trying to balance “losing face” vs the danger of the public turning against the regime as more of their cities get destroyed by US/Israeli bombs.

For some time, I’ve been reading about something happening in the news and thought to myself it’ll be studied in a history lesson one day.

I'm certainly a lot more nervous now, with a child in the military.

But I'm trying to reassure myself with the fact that Iran doesn't have many friends. China, Russia etc might make sympathetic noises or slip them some money in much the same way as Western countries have supported Ukraine, it's not the same as actually entering a war by sending in troops.

Are you capable of doing your own research?

Agree with you both. Mn has so much of this.

Everything on this thread is opinion, so sources aren't even particularly relevant.

In other contexts, sometimes it's valid to ask something asserting a fact what their sources are. If they can't back it up, they may have no leg to stand on. (Though I firmly believe you can usually find sources that support most anything you want, and I know that I sometimes got my information long ago and would have to look up the sources again. I might not be able to be bothered).

More likely many people just think further discussion was the way forward rather than an Israel/US military attack. Armed intervention is all well and good but one day one of these good old US Middle East military interventions will spiral and we will have a massive clusterfuck on our hands. The Iranian regime might be terrible and unreasonable but their displeasure at being bombed by a Western power 7000 miles away for having the temerity to want the same weapons (in much smaller quantity) that the invader and their best buds neighbour has isn’t that crazy.

if things carry on the way they are then yes, probably.
I really doubt it will be nuclear war though. Or world war as people imagine it when they think of world war.

But things will get worse, will get more tense, we will not be able to ridicule the very idea that we may not be completely safe in our little democratic bubble.

Russia and china will probably team up a bit more. the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that. Im not sure what if anything north Korea would or could do but who knows? He's crazy enough to do anything.

War in the west in this day and age is unlikely to be all bombs and hand to hand combat. When it comes to attacking the west at least, bombs would be part destruction part willy waving. cyber attacks can bring a country to its knees far faster and more completely than bombs.

tbh if we'd just open our eyes we'd realise the world is already at war and has been for some time. It's just that people still think of ww1 and ww2 when they think of war. It doesn't have to look like that for it to be war. also for some people if it isn't affecting them then it isn't happening.

I honestly don't think we'll have conscription or nuclear bombs or anything like that. War will look different but if people think war cannot happen or in some ways isn't happening already, they're fools.

US involvement in Afghanistan worked so well to improve the lives of women long term didn’t it? Look how free the women are there now! ….oh wait?

it isn’t support for the Iranian regime to say that western intervention is highly unlikely to affect real change for Iran and is more likely to lead to disaster. There’s no easy answer to this but it’s utterly naive to accuse posters who disagree that you can bomb your way to peace of supporting the current Iranian regime.

I’m not certain how bombing them will improve matters for women.

Its always men, isn’t it.

China has no interest in bombing countries 1000s of miles away. It’s unlike the US in this regard where it seems it is virtually a national pastime. If China does at some point become a major player in a global conflict it will be because US military aggression left them with no choice.

@Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast
So you’re envisioning something like the Cold War.

In other matters it will spell the end of the internet as we know it, not that it’s stayed the same for 10 consecutive years yet. Silver linings and all. Maybe.

It's not impossible. The UK doesn't have special immunity. But I think it's unlikely at the moment.