World War 3 Happening: In the past decade, political and military tensions have exploded. The war with Ukraine, growing China-Taiwan tension, and Iran-Israel’s June 2025 missile war have all raised a spooky question: Have we already begun to witness the beginning of World War 3?
The most concerning news has originated in the Middle East. In June 2025, Iran retaliated against Israeli air raids with a record barrage of more than 150 missiles and drones. It incited military threats across the globe and compelled friends and adversaries to take defensive positions. Elsewhere, NATO strides on rising presence in Eastern Europe, while China ramps up military pressure in the South China Sea.
As opposed to the past world wars, this era of conflicts isn’t dominated by soldiers and tanks. Cyber war, AI-based propaganda, and economic sanctions are at the forefront today. Nations target other nations’ infrastructure in cyberspace, employing information manipulation and internet propaganda to defeat foes without ever discharging a single bullet.
Social media is saturated with WW3 jokes, memes, and conspiracy theories half hilarious, half nervous. Where younger generations employ satire as a tool of coming to terms with uncertainty, trending viruses such as the so-called “Pentagon Pizza Index” (a conspiracy theory connecting late-night pizza delivery with national security events) demonstrate how much digital culture is an index of public fear.
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As combat intensifies, no world war is formally declared. But the potential is wildly volatile. Experts caution that a single miscalculation in a delicate area can soon turn into a world war. Diplomacy is still an option, but international confidence is thinning.
Though the world is not technically at war in a third world war, all of the indications of a new, very subtle global war are everywhere. Either by means of cyberwars or in fact by resort to violence, the threat of mass war is closer than it has ever been in the last forty years.
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