Inasmuch as the Cold War was Worldwide in scope and therefore a world war, we are already involved in the next one. Iraq is very much an analogue of Vietnam in that respect. We are trying to keep Iran from overwhelming the Middle East. This Cold War II has been going on really since 1979 and the Ayatollah unpleasantness of that year. As with Cold War I there is always the prospect of this all heating up to a full blown worldwide War. There is probably less prospect of that if we take care of Iran massively and finally very soon.
IMHO Germany is the premier land power in Europe at the present time or will soon will be.
Answer to title question: No.
WWIII is underway.
The only way the Russians could even hurt us was if they launched all their ICBM’s today. Without total surprise, we’d crush them in any fight. Our technology superiority gives us a first strike capability that would strip them of their nuclear delivery capacity. Their bombers are jokes. Their nuclear missile subs are no match for Navy. And stealth combined with cruise missiles and JDAMS would destroy the ICBM’s in their silos. More mobile missiles don’t have the range and can be shot down by our missile defenses. Their army is a joke — in Grozny a bunch of Islamic idiots shredded a Russian battalion in a few days. Compare that to US forces who shred Islamic idiots without hurting the civilians hidden aroudn them. Their navy is a rusting radioactive junkpile — useful only for stealing money from India and China. Their air force flies the planes that US made planes have played target practice with for three decades.
Only Serbian idiots think that Russia will come to their aid with anything more than talk.
And no, there’s no way we can blame Serbia for Iran. Serbia would have to actually matter on the world stage. They only matter when they face unarmed neighbors or quiet Austrian princes out on a peaceful drive. They may be the only people that make a Jihadi seem brave and intelligent.
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The first shots are usually fired by the ones who consider it their advantage at the time.
You don't make a convincing case for this. The conditions that caused WWI no longer exist. Kosovo may be of personal importance to you, but it is not the sort of stuff on which world wars are built.
World wars are built on the aspirations of aggressive conquering nations who have delusions of invincibility ... modern countries such as Iran or China can cause world wars; Kosovo cannot -- who would be the opposing sides?
More specifically, the the game that's being played out between these competing forces is the control of Central Asia.
That is, look at Uzbekistan (or Turkmenistan) and the natural resources that are associates with those countries (unlike Kosovo). Obviously, both China and Russia are chief stakeholders in this game as well as the US and the EU. - think about it.
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Another Clinton legacy that nobody ever talks about. WHen will the troops be pulled from that place? Instead of protesting the war/police action at present in Iraq the idiots at code pinky should be protesting over Kosovo.
No. The Arab tribes and their lackeys such as Iran who are trying to get general war going are having no success whatsoever. Nobody else is interested in having a general war at this time.