[Jedi Master Pikachu]

World War 4?

What about World War 3?

The Cold War was not World War 3.

World War 1 and 2 cost the lives of tens of millions, each, and the theaters covered large portions of two continents (Africa and Eurasia). They are not very comparable to the Cold War, which, while long-lasting, did not take nearly as many lives due to war, nor devastated cities and countries close to the extent that the two World Wars did.

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The above is opinion, and you may have--and are free to have--another one. So don't get angry that the opinion here is that the Cold War does not deserve to be called a World War.

The war against islamofascism could become World War 3, but if it already is, then it is at the Japan just starting to invade Manchuria stage.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The two questions were rhetorical.

[Biggirl]

But one of the features of the Cold War was what was called “the proxy wars”. Also there was the buildup of the nukes between the USA and what was the old Soviet Union.