Are we on the early stages of World War 3. (Poll)

[EricHiggin]

rapsuperstar31 said:

LegitHyperbole said:

A Cold War. Indeed. But I can't see how it stays cold when land is a the center of the issue, it's not like the cold War in that regard, they're not civil wars. These are wars for land outside of the countries pursuing these conflicts, they can't stay cold. If Taiwan is the next on the list of invasions the best we can hope for is for it to be fought in the air and sea. 

Humans have change quite a bit since WW2.  What large scale wars have China fought and won lately, do you really think China wants to test their inexperienced army in a WW?  The UK has completely changed from a hundred plus years ago and are pretty peaceful people.  All of the USA allies are peaceful for the most part, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, most of Europe, Japan etc. (not so much Israel).  China and the USA depend on each other so much for trade, that neither will ever want war with each other.  Anyone that would try and attack America in the USA would lose, it's too big.  Same with China, if anyone tried to attack China on Chinese soil they would lose.

Both the US and China would be darn near impossible to take, but while China could almost never reach America to invade, America could get close enough to China. At the very least, with most of China's population and infrastructure being in the south and east portion along the sea, America could cause plenty of destruction, enough to stall China entirely for a decade anyway, if not more. America wouldn't even need to touch soil to deem themselves victorious.