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In reply to the discussion: Please, NO. [View all]H2O Man
(74,829 posts)isn't in the name ..... we could call it "Alfred" if we want. Rather, it's in what the name implies.
"Perpetual war" is the military-industrial state pumping lots of investments into the domestic and foreign economies/lands, but makes the greatest financial profits by maintaining either a cold war, or relatively small, controllable warm wars. The concept that "WW3" communicates is a larger, wide-spread. inter-related hot war. Historically, these types of wars (and I'm not referring only to WW1/2) cause the economic and political collapse of empires. When an empire spreads its violence over too great an area of the world, it loses all "wholesome" control over the application of the destructive forces it unleashes.
That, I believe, is what was meant by saying it could start WW3.
Peace to you, my Friend.