Could WW3 happen this decade?

[Scofield]

Iran killed an American contractor. We sent an airstrike to the militia who killed the contractor. The militia then attacker our embassy in Baghdad. We then sent an airstrike to the leader of the Iranian military. Both countries have said severe threats to each other with implied war.

Realistically, could Iran and the US go to war, and could WW3 start? The US literally killed a high ranking leader of a country, which is how WW1 started (the assassination of Franz Ferdinand), and, as the UK has the same view on Iran as the US, and the US has lots of NATO allies, whereas Iran is backed by Russia and China, could other world powers be brought in, sparking WW3?

 

[something]

As a bulgarian I will say:

It's going to be the same old story if a war brakes out
US: they have nukes and chemical weapons
Insert arab country: no we don't
US invades
no nukes found
oh well we might aswell use their natural resourses for our slowly diying economy. After all they were terrorists.

We must really look into the definition of terrorism, in my mind US is as guilty as Iran in most cases some even surpass them all like in the case of Iran flight 655, where they shot a airliner and returned as heroes before realising what they did.

 

[nick.]

don't think so.

 

[Jace]

UK prolly won’t do a lot so I’m good lol

 

[Royhb]

The countries that you stated do have alot of power which is true but no one will do anything due to the inevitability of a Nuclear war where everyone will basically get blown up and no one will win, so the likely hood of anything happening at all except from little strikes is very low

 

[Valentino]

This has been going in for ages between Iran and the US, one does one thing and the other retaliates. If anything a proxy war could spark up between NATO-backed insurgents and the Iranian government supported by Russia but I doubt there will be any major conflict between NATO and the east.

 

[Bobby Kurosaki]

If something does happen a war won't last long with how strong weapons are nowadays

 

[Tyro]

Iran and the US have been at very tense odds for almost 30 years now, it's the shame shit and it won't change until Iran decides to have another revolution. In terms of WW3 don't even bother considering it, the media is overreacting to get views. Long story short Iran isn't gonna do shit, they are a torn terrorist sympathizing country that is all talk. They got what was coming to them and they will learn.

 

[Sokolov]

No world war, all the US would need to do if Iran declared war would be to strike the military facilities, naval and air assets + maybe some oil fields... The regime will collapse and the people will over throw the government. Iran is literally surrounded by US bases, no land invasion would ever take place imo.

Iran is a bottom fragger, Russias Boats keep catching fire, China can't even sail into pacific without be scared off.

!ban "Iran" 0 "Malicious Activity & IRL Threats | No appeal"

 

[itz_coffee]

https://imgur.com/im9set8

 

[Scofield]

A war is now inevitable. Both sides don't want a war. However, Iran stated that they definitely use a military retaliation on the US. The US said if they do that, America will attack the 52 sited 10x harder. Iran said if America just takes the L, there will be no further retaliation, and if the US hits back, all iranian gloves will be off and it will be war.

Unless the one of the leaders back down, which won't happen, it's gonna be extremely hard to break the chain of events that I stated.

 

[Tyro]

Iran does NOT have any modern or effective nuclear weapons, they have a nuclear program. But it is still in its infancy, although war is a possibility it will NOT be nuclear, so we don't have to worry about that. Our airforce can strike anywhere in the world, we could literally drone strike their whole government rn if we wanted to, they do not know what they are playing with tbh.

 

[Sokolov]

Iran's likely gonna use the nuke as a deterrent, its only just gone public that Iran is starting up its enrichment plants again... Even if they manage to create one bomb which will likely take months if not years it would basically mean Irans inhalation if they tried using it, not that they likely have any delivery vehicles that could reach the US mainland and nuking a Nato ally would bring an even bigger shitstorm to their door.

Thanks to their latest news about starting up the enrichment plants again, the US has some pretty clear targets to destroy, cruse missiles would do pretty good in their terrain if they US would consider a preemptive strike to disable Irans capability.

Side note, the NZ government here is said to likely withdraw our whopping 45 personnel from Iraq.

 

[Knight]

A war with Iran is an impossibility at this point. The country boasts a significant military and extremely favorable geography towards defense, not to mention a population of over 80 million, over 60% of whom are younger than 30. It has an outdated, but formidable defense industry which would largely be immune from US strikes, both due to their large number and underground fortifications. Iran is armed with a large number of asymmetric weapons that would make direct invasion a pain, including a large arsenal of fairly modern surface-to-air and ATGM systems. Sufficed to say, with hundreds of thousands of frontline troops (and many more in reserve), they represent a considerable threat. Our drones are clearly vulnerable to Iranian cyber incursions, as they have demonstrated at least twice now, hijacking two different drones, not to mention they are insufficient against conventional air defenses, even outdated ones. You cannot win a war in the air alone. The more than 50 cruise missile strikes against a Syrian airport were largely for show, and people often underestimate the value of airpower alone.

The fact is, troops on the ground will always be necessary to win a war, and it is here where Iran will have considerable advantages, being a defender with some of the best defensive geography in the world, a very young population, and an adequate domestic arms industry. Moreover, we cannot afford a war with Iran. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US trillions, with little to show for them, and those were fairly low intensity insurgencies. The US would obviously decimate Iran in a conventional war, but at costs we cannot afford and over a war that would drag on for sometime. America is casualty averse, and I don't see the military supporting the idea of a conventional conflict that could cost us the lives of tens of thousands of young professionals. Perhaps the most important point: Iran represents zero conventional threat to the US.

 

[Shadexz]

Tbh if there was a world war again it would problably play out, iran claims to have an amazing military but honestly they don't and the US military would problably win, the uk will honestly try not to get involved china and Russia will stand down and WWIII over within a year

 

[Franklin]

america will nuke iran and win

 

[Salvatore Tortellini]

*France surrenders*

 

[thekylevanhorn]

https://imgur.com/im9set8

I like how there is no Branch on the uniform bc if there would be it would be a federal offense