Why there will be no World War 3!

Prateek Singh
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
4 min readJan 21, 2020

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World war 3

World war is something to not joke about. But don’t worry there will not gonna be a world war 3 at least with weapons. Yes, As per my theory world war 3 will happen but not with the weapons & you will also think the same as you read further.

In the current world, technology is so advanced and weapons are so destructive. If we start a world war, within two days, the world would become extinct to live. So how we fight in the future? Let’s divide the 20th & 21st century into three parts.

1: 1900–1950: Era of war with weapons

Atom Bomb Impact

In this era, the world fought the war with dangerous weapons and ended up with the use of the Atomic bomb on Japan(1945). After this episode, all the countries realized that if this continues, extinction is not far. So world war 2 comes to an end after that.

2: 1950–2000: Era of Cold war

US vs USSR

If you don’t know about the Cold war, the Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II. The history of the conflict began between 1946 and 1947. The Cold War began to de-escalate after the Revolutions of 1989. In this era, countries fought with conspiracy against enemies, Assassination of world leaders, and small wars like India vs Pakistan, Korean freedom war, etc which were destructive to millions of people but not as destructive as World war 1 or 2.

3: 2000–2050: Era of **** war?

War of New Century

The biggest question in the 21st century is the alternative to fight a war. World war happened a long time ago and the cold war also ended up with the revolution and globalization. The main reason behind the ending of world war 2 was destruction we created as humans. We were destroying our own world. Technology advanced like a boom and now we have 1000 times more powerful weapons and destroying capability. So, World war with weapons is not a choice today when so many countries have nuclear power. It doesn’t mean war will not happen, War will be there against terrorists like in Syria, Kashmir, Pakistan, etc. But it will be bilateral or a joint operation by 2–3 countries on a terrorist entity. So, World war 3 will not happen in the future? No, It will happen and countries will destroy their enemies but it will be called TRADE WAR. A trade war is an economic conflict resulting from extreme protectionism in which states raise or create tariffs or other trade barriers against each other in response to trade barriers created by the other party.
Currently, the USA vs China trade war is in limelight. The USA government is imposing tariffs on China and banning its product in the market which is causing huge financial loss to China. In the next 50 yrs, we are going in the era of global trade, Startup, AI, Online market and when our life will be surrounded by all those things and every country economics and finance depends on the trade.
There will be only one way to beat everyone by leading the trade market. You can feel the air of trade war in the global community. Countries making new ways to make trade possible if some country bans its trade route, For eg: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. China is making a way to join its land to the Gwadar Port for onward maritime shipment to Africa and West Asia. The US-China trade war is just an example between two big countries, there are a lot of things happening in the world which will lead us to trade war.

“We are not happy with the US-China trade frictions but … you need to plan for the next 20 years. Whatever the US will do, we will have our solutions, based on our principles. No matter what you say, how angry you are, President Trump doesn’t know about that.”- Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

So, After reading these 3 eras, now you can understand why there will be no World War3 with weapons. World war 3 will happen but the new means of weapon which is a trade & it’s going to be a trade war.

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