WW-III

LonesomeWanderer
Oct 10 · 3 min read

the year is 2024. There has been no US elections, which is okay since much of the humanity has been destroyed anyway, and for the first time in history, the critics are unanimous in their decision that callousness and jumping to conclusions is at fault. you see, for the world, everything started with the east Asian fiasco. a single group of people living near the eastern border-town (Hamdardabad) of Pakistan mistook wailing sirens to be a warning of a nuclear attack. commonsense would have prevailed, but sadly, the group of people were influencers and “journalists” covering the spectacle of annual goat-milking festival. as for the siren, it was just announcing the start of the evening azaan, and it promptly malfunctioned after starting off pitch-perfectly. as it kept on wailing ominously, journalists panicked and broadcasted the breaking news. again, the pandemonium it created could have been avoided, if not for a single cow, 250kilometers away, close to the western border town in India, GorurmanshoKhaina. It had a bloodied thigh, presumably because it twisted its leg walking on the cratered street, but the people took offence. You see, harming a cow is sickening and is punishable by death, of an unrelated and unlucky human. and with the news of doom spreading like wildfire on the TVs, the angry mob felt its their duty to save cow (and their religion). They promptly picketed near the border, and Indian army had to open fire blank rounds in the air. well, shots fired, tanks deployed, missiles flying, you know how it goes.
it could just have been a brown bloodbath, but china promptly decided it has to take action against western imperialism. and to some extent they were right. India technically lied west of some cities in china, including Beijing (Hong Kong doesn’t count). So it secretly sent a couple missiles flying towards some “important” cities in India, and unfortunately, one of them landed in TelAviv. which would have been okay, iron-dome and all that, but, because of the reckless barrage of rockets just having been pelted at it, the system was re-stockpiling and was freshly out of anti-missile missiles. many countries in Europe took offence by this egregious act of hurting Jews again, and decided enough is enough, and Moscow must pay its price. US, under Trump, at first vehemently tweeted that this is unacceptable, hashtags flew hot right left and..well there’s no center but you get the gist. they promptly sided with the Europeans again by keeping their doors locked tight shut and donating overused piles of clothes and garnished mac-n-cheese at them for most of the war, until the worst happened. The president died. Well, he had a heart attack and succumbed to it like a fly in a storm, but to everybody, it might just have been the “others” who were behind this. Conspiracy theories usually die a quick death in America (what??) but this one struck a chord and GIs and their Joes leapt into the battlefield after most of the other continents were already burning.
And that’s the history of WW3. It ended, as all wars come to an end, with nobody really “winning”. And here we are. No flying cars or all-day long, no need to recharge every 5 minutes mobile phones. Just vast emptiness.