Assuming everyone not listed stays neutral and is not attacked, where is the war? The old WW3 scenarios were based on the idea of a land invasion of Germany. Assuming that China N.Korea, Iran & Russia are the aggressors, the issue would be primarily decided by the navies or through strategic bombing since they share no common land borders. This is assuming no nukes are used, this seems to pretty lopsidedly favor the US, UK and Australia.

 

Now if we have Iran invading Iraq, and invading Afghanistan along with China, N.Korea invading South Korea along with China and possibly the Russians, and China deciding that if they are going to go to war with the US anyway, they'd might as well invade Taiwan too, that would be different. Russia would presumably use their navy to contest the US from intervening by interdicting the US Navy. Though conceivably they could try to stage an airborne or amphibious assault on the UK, that seems...problematic to say the least.

Define "win".

 

As much as Russia hates the Chechens, do we really think they'd work with Iran? N Korea is practically ready to collapse militarily. China is dreaming of becomming a superpower again, and they remember that military might is based on economic might and the war that is being described here can only hurt that economic might. Russia didn't fight WW3 when it was still a Soviet Union with an ideological imperative to make the rest of the world a workers paradise just like it was. Iran has a highly educated population and their political leadership knows that they have no hope in a symetrical slugging match, so if they are going to fight it is going to be an asymetric jihad, which Russia and China will want no part in.

Each of the proposed enemy countries has a different victory condition, and they are not compatible which is why it won't happen. China : Return to a super power status (which they have been off and on throught most of human history). Iran : Worldwide Shia Islamist state (China and Russia aren't going to participate in anything that advances that cause.) Russia: Probably more wealth and power for the folks in charge. N. Korea : get by a little longer without colapsing by extrorting/begging cash and supplies from their neighbors and the US.

 

Isn’t it obvious? In a war like that it would go nuclear and the USA currently owns more then 50% of the world’s nuclear arsenal. We'd win but at enormous cost, unless we finish our missile defense systems.

naaa I actually think that the second group would win. This is because Russia and China have pretty high populations and military especially Chna and Russia has lots of land power. Even though North Korea cant be the biggest help they can still support the group in things like troups and small weapons. And last but not least Iran would OWN everyone cuz they will fight until the very end. Iran easily took Iraq even with the Americans help to Iraq its the US that cant handle Iraq now

 

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