Has World War III Already Started?

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video & for the free product! Head to keeps.com/ryanmcbeth to get a special offer. Individual results may vary. Are we fighting World War III right now? The argument can be made that the current global conflict, particularly centered around Ukraine, shares many characteristics with past world wars-multiple actors, new weapons systems, economic warfare, and pervasive propaganda. The conflict, which arguably began with Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, has seen the West's response largely in the form of diplomatic and economic measures, avoiding direct military confrontation. An avoidance which is built on the presumption of nuclear weapon use. However, use of nuclear weapons is unlikely due to the significant strategic and political repercussions. This new modern warfare is increasingly fought in cyberspace and through media. This new type of warfare aims to influence minds, shape perceptions, and create divisions through misinformation and fear. We are already fighting World War III whether you like it or not. For uncensored video, check out my substack at: ryanmcbeth.substack.com Like my shirts? Get your own at: www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/ryan-mcbeth Want a personalized greeting: www.cameo.com/ryanmcbeth Watch all of my long form videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLt670_P7pOGmLWZG78JlM-rG2ZrpPziOy Twitter: @ryanmcbeth Instagram: @therealryanmcbeth BlueSky @ryanmcbeth Reddit: /r/ryanmcbeth Join the conversation: discord.gg/pKuGDHZHrz Want to send me something? Ryan McBeth Productions LLC 8705 Colesville Rd. Suite 249 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

[@stevenobrien557]

"The 80's called, they want their foreign policy back" - Barrack Hussein Obama

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@camelfilters3224]

Cover M.A.D for those who are still worried about a nuclear war. People may know about M.A.D but may not know the extent of which it will be used should say someone like Putin pushes the button. And why it's importance is what helps keep people like Putin from ultimately pushing the button. If you've covered it already disregard this post. Lol

[@bragebh7122]

Isn't every point in your analysis a closer match for the Cold War? I can see the point of going for the controversial claim to make people take the assessment seriously, but doesn't an impression of intellectual sloppiness just undermine your credentials long term? If the claim is that this conflict has the potential to become WW3 and that in retrospect an argument could have been made for it having already started, well, 1. is that an interesting point to make, and 2. doesn't that still match the Cold War better - it could have gone hot?

[@patrickweaver1105]

With only two nations on the battlefields? Nope. By your criteria Korea was WW III and Vietnam was WW IV

[@Repoman46]

A hair growth commercial in the middle of a WW3 video is peak end-of-days vibes

[@Jside68]

The only thing missing is the "Would you like to know more" button at the bottom!

[@little_lord_tam]

Its just like a cartoon, its insane

[@absoluteapricot]

The transition was beautiful. It's like an episode of Fallout.

[@nullstyle]

Exactly. Sheesh

[@mightybagrutlord]

Nuclear war and capitalism. Bioshock it is.

[@AndrewFischer-sz5cb]

> WW3 started > Buy this hair product

[@OutsiderLabs]

Ever noticed how good men looked in WWII? War and style go hand in hand, just ask Hugo Boss

[@randominternetuser2888]

​@@OutsiderLabs Seems legit 🤷

[@1adamuk]

Yeah, says it all about modern times doesn't it.

[@xuko6792]

Well, whenever world is going to end, you better go out with bangs, innit?

[@openmythirdeye]

Has info wars vibe😂...next up grifting bone broth

[@anzelmasmatutis2500]

3:46 Russians intentionally OMIT 1939-1941. Their "Great Patriotic War" starts in 1941 when Germans "unprovoked invaded" peaceful USSR, who was enjoying benefits of their cooperation in 1939-1941.

[@drewmalesky9869]

The historical blinders of Tankies and Russians is actually impressive. They think Poland is very ungrateful that the USSR "saved them". They've actually said that to me.

[@SVSky]

@@drewmalesky9869 "laughs in Katyn"

[@Leonard-nb7jk]

Tankies casually ignoring the winter war😂

[@111076tom]

​@@drewmalesky9869 who are "they"? Mother Russia and her mother? Katyn sure was a lesson for the smart polaks. Especially that president that thought he was going to travel to Moscow to "celebrate" the massacre...

[@bowathand]

You'd think the toppling of power structures would expose systemic weaknesses but here we are again, gulping down another load of angry swindling disifnormation

[@callenclarke371]

Fun fact: The term 'World War II' was first used in 1919. It was used by Time Magazine in _June_ of 1939, before the War itself actually started. So World War II was referred to as such even before it began, though not necessarily by all parties.

[@georgipetrov3147]

Thanks

[@littlerage4u799]

change title to "Has Minecraft World War III Already Started" to trick youtube

[@zaqwsxcde54321]

we have seen the same Minecraft vids ;)

[@BuddhaAfterDark]

Hermitcraft specifically, that courthouse b00 made is gonna go nuclear ☢️

[@firghteningtruth7173]

This is a good point.

[@lostpony4885]

I am afraid to look that up sounds like major rabbit hole

[@BuddhaAfterDark]

@@lostpony4885 hermit craft? Nah it’s just 10 seasons of 27 minecrafters building amazing things in survival mode. Each creating 1 30ish minute video per week for the past 10 years so maybe about 9,000 hours of content :)

[@hangingtreegg]

as an american, this is eerily reminiscent of the asian and european conflict in the 30's. what looks like a spectacle today could be in our back door tomorrow.

[@daneaxe6465]

Two years ago it was apparent to me that all the preludes of WW2 have been following the exact same patterns (in 2022 to current) of the USA western Europe and Russia, Japan and Italy. Well, the new Axis is already formed and functioning as in aggressive actions and threats of war against their neighbors and the neighbor's friends. Even Putin is doing his part imitating Hitler in lockstep with Hitler's behavior, military ignorance and micro-managing military decisions down to company level. Maybe its a dictator thing that they cannot see how they are repeating history step for step. Its crazy. Never thought I'd see history repeat itself in my lifetime.

[@LolUGotBusted]

Time Magazine decided not to make Trump Man of the Year this time. 1939 was a little bit too embarrassing for them

[@chandlerwhite8302]

@@LolUGotBusted Your President again on January 20th. Deal with it.

[@Alexey1967]

Не совсем. Уже заложены две ядерных бомбы с помощью носителя Посейдон вдоль восточного побережья Соединенных Штатов. Цунами 500 м дойдёт до Кордильер. Я думаю что тоже самое будет сделано и в районе тихоокеанского побережья. Причём очень удобно. Мы можем вооружить северную Корею. Поэтому вы можете не волноваться. Всё в порядке. До вас война дойдёт в самом лучшем виде. Вместе с волной 500 м. Ну в этом есть свои плюсы. Обвинять будет некого. И некому.

[@Alexey1967]

In your home .

[@derekcox6531]

In 2014 the Canadian PM said publicly that Russia would not stop and sent military trainers to Ukraine at that time as I recall. No international leader can use the excuse that “we didn’t know” every NATO country knew. They just chose to poke their heads into the sand and say “LALALA WE CANT HEAR YOU”….just like in 1939.

[@swaggery]

No country wants to fight an overt war until it has to.

[@TheDaveRout]

Not the baltic states, they’ve been shouting loudly for years

[@jennysue601]

Merkel didn’t dug her head into sand but into a certain lower body part of putin. Giving weapons for 125 million dollars to russia after crimea ‘14, increased the gas dependency to absurd levels, vetoed Ukraines Nato membership 2008, and allowed russia to build ns2 with money, special permits and against US sanctions. Total russian sub. If she would be still chancellor, Ukraine wouldn’t even have received the famous 5000 helmets.

[@Sir_Godz]

and sholtz is still doing that

[@Happyman28778]

To be honest it was mostly a inconceivable idea I don’t know how old you are but I’m 21. When I was a kid it was a near constant conversation about how pointless NATO was and how it was slowly coming apart starting with Turkey in the Middle East at Odds with the US while nations like Germany denied to send troops to Iraq . At the same time this was the absolute height of what was termed “long peace” it was so ingrained in people that the places you had war was Middle East. And the idea that Europe would come to war? That idea was about as believable as Jesus being reborn in Springfield Mississippi. You also had Poland and Hungary at Odds with the EU and Russia frankly biggest conflict with America was mercenaries engaging US soldiers. World of 2014 was completely alien to 2024 in many ways. The US was war weary and beginning to question everything it was doing while also in middle of a conversion of conventional to asymmetrical warfare. All in all the response the west gave was completely predictable Edit: the comment regarding Germany not sending troops is only meant to give an example of a common conversation point in the discussion of NATOs waning relevance in the 2000s-2010s. The German government had very good reason behind the decision to not send troops as the American justification for war being WMDs was not then or after given any credibility or evidence)

[@BigDaddyGAO]

World peace is probably impossible. Either the global foreign policy is to counter every aggression, or things like Crimea will happen and embolden the aggressors. However, most civilian populations refuse to accept the cost and energy needed to be so proactive, especially in seemingly endless peacetime.

[@Imperator_Prime]

It's impossible as long as people keep simping for social formations conducive to hierarchies of dominance, like capitalism or aristocracy, and for the kind of antisocial psychopaths who climb to the top of them, turning them into theatres for reifying their own power. The best hope for any peace is in the *victory* of an ideology of rational, compassionate, collectivist egalitarianism that stigmatizes egomania and selfishness-- that purges or quarantines narcissistic *assholes* from society, so that they can't manipulate opinions to normalize and celebrate their vices (like our culture absolutely does, captive as it is to capitalists). But sooo many *have* accepted those vices as normal, worthy of celebration, idolizing "winners" and "success" without a second thought for the collateral impacts of a "winning" narcissistic psychopath's "success," that it's a real uphill battle to deprogram these normies of their sick idolatry.

[@cizeek9748]

Peace is not the natural state of war, it has to be constantly and actively sought after. I personally think this will take a while for society to fully understand (citation needed, not my words... I think it was said as a quote on Matt Colville's video on politics of Peace/War)

[@RichRobinson]

I think we genetically engineer out the primal aspect of our psyche that leads us to wage war. I don’t see any other way around it.

[@silverbird425]

the only way to get people to not kill each other is . . . . SPACE ALIENS! Deathworlders will unite against xenomorphic threats long enough to stop killing each other.

[@Jefffrrry]

Pretty spot on. Either we truly stand for what we believe and that means getting our hands dirty again from time to time. Or we will just sit idly by as pieces of contries are stolen by various dictators, till war actually comes to us sooner or later by those very same embolden dictators. And then it will once again depend on who we elect as our leaders, whether a bunch of Chamberlains and Quislings, or a Churchill. And the longer the war in Ukraine has been going on and the more I see so many Westerners calling for peace at all costs (easy for them to say when they pay neither with blood, nor with territory), the prospect of another round of appeasement is sadly very real.

[@phillipdixon5733]

Georgia gets no mention in media. Armenia and NE Syria also invaded, yet again no complaint from the UN or activists.

[@fiachramaccana280]

I strongly support the UN and I complained at the time..... Stop blaming the UN for things that have nothing to do with it....

[@phillipdixon5733]

@@fiachramaccana280 Yet the UN supplies funding to Aid agencies into Gaza and elsewhere, has peacekeepers and has a security council to sanction and condem countries for invasions etc. My collegues lodged complaints to the UN about the invasions and attacks upon civilians and their infrastructure, but unless they are Gazan, I guess they don't matter. Turkey even works with ISIS, yet resolutions in the UN were passed to sanction such countries. But, hey they aint Israel🙄. The UN is corrupt.🤮

[@noco7243]

​@@fiachramaccana280 the UN isn't to blame for these conflict. I agree. However they ARE to blame for doing NOTHING to end them.

[@rustomkanishka]

Georgia folded very soon. It usually takes weeks, even months for momentum to build for the UN to care.

[@fiachramaccana280]

@@rustomkanishka the UN = an assembly of all sovereign countries. You might as well complain about all the people living on your street having a group meeting. Or the last time you went to a restaurant with 20 people and tried to group order........

[@zacappleton474]

Another important precursor to WW2 wasn't just the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but also Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 - effectively challenging the League of Nation's ability to prevent or mitigate the conquest of territory and political change by force of arms. With that failure, the 1938 Anschluss and Sudetenland annexation, the 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland, and then the formal conflicts we recognize as 'the Second World War" followed.

[@GafferBob]

You also should include the proxy war of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

[@a5cent]

To some extent it comes down to definitions. Would we have called it WW2 if only the earlier incidents you mentioned had occurred BUT Germany/Russia didn't invade Poland? It's impossible to really know, but I strongly suspect not. That is why I don't think it makes sense to declare any year except 1939 as the beginning of WW2. For the same reason, I also don't think it makes sense to say WW3 may already have started in 2022 or 2014. If it had started we'd all know for sure. You can't not notice a WW3. However, we are on a slippery slope towards that outcome.

[@toddapplegate3988]

Yes all of the above and more.

[@johanj3674]

So once again back to 2014 then?

[@thomasbest8599]

Land grabbing by individual nations. Notice they allied with each other and then the Allies and them had a tussle . All over the world. Innocents like New Guinea and many others , suffered immensely.

[@hawkeye2816]

Korea, Vietnam, USSR in Afghanistan, most conflicts since WWII also share a lot of the characteristics you describe. I don't strictly disagree that this looks like a world war, but warfare has looked broadly like this for the last century or more with how interconnected the world has become. Economic and political pressures, propaganda, new technology, these have been pretty prevalent everywhere this whole time.

[@LukeTEvans]

yeah.. the career korear was was tough

[@LukeTEvans]

i sherved in career

[@splashafrica]

We have 4 active proxy wars right now Israel Iran russia and the EU the DRC mess continues as is tradition by now and sudan is also risking to turn into a multinational war with everyone qd their mother picking a side from the sidelines only Myanmar seems to be heading towards a conclusion but the politics of that is not yet known so we could be looking at a Somalia situation with regional war lords and splintered state control

[@Alexey1967]

Идеальный вариант это то что Россия фактически обломала Соединенным Штатам зубы. Вы уже не можете применить силу на ближнем востоке. Вы уже не можете применить силу в Южной Америке. Вы уже не можете применить силу в Африке. При этом долларовая зона сокращается. Особенно хорошо что недавно были уничтожена нефтедоллары. Саудовская Аравия не стала продлевать, благодаря поддержке России и экономическому сотрудничеству с Китаем соглашение Соединенными Штатами у продажи за доллары. Ясные дело что Китай не станет рисковать и поставлять оружие не станет помогать антиамериканским военным силам. У России таких проблем нет для нас Соединённые Штаты никто. Поэтому в соединённых Штатах будет скоро большая инфляция. давление американского долга вы не выдержите. И содержать армию примерно за 1 000 000 000 000 $ в год вынес сможете. У вас и так бюджеты дефицит годовой примерно 2 000 000 000 000 $. Таким образом Соединенные Штаты не смогут содержать свою армию. Станут постепенно миролюбивыми. А когда у вас начнётся экономический коллапс то многие штаты посчитают более выгоднымвыйти из состава Соединенных Штатов. Ну конечно был такой пример 160 лет назад. Но с большой вероятностью сейчас это будет легче. И войны не будет. И тогда никакой мировой войны не будет.

[@gergomarton5194]

Avarage Russian worldview. ​@@Alexey1967

[@imghoti]

That Dr Strange love insert was PERFECT!

[@scottstebbins2841]

Let’s not forget that the Russians and Germans were allies and both invaded Poland

[@111076tom]

Like we shouldn't forget how the Poles invaded Russia together with the Zaporozhian Cossacks... Or how Napoleon thought walking on Moscow looked like a good idea. Or the unreal level of evil the genocidal nazis unleashed on Russia after Poland was divided. Or how the UK and the French were the ones advising the Poles not to come to an agreement with Hitler on the Danzig-problem. As if the Treaty of Versailles wasn't bad enough. (Germany wasn't finished paying for WW1 until june 2011...) Funny how the Poles got played by London in the exact same way the clown was in april 2022...

[@vxathos]

...and whose proto-states cooperated to break up the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth 229 years ago. A state which was, funny enough, modern poland, the baltic states, and (part of) modern ukraine.

[@111076tom]

@@vxathos "polish-lithuanian commonwealth"? LOL. Even the pacifist Swedes humiliated that "commonwealth", and helped Peter the Great create his empire. Don't build an arena between Russia and Germany and expect them to not use it...

[@LukeTEvans]

yeah and one ruled poland for centuries and the other wanted to eradicate a whole country...... and remember if the russians didnt step in themselves then you leave the people eradicator one position closer....

[@nopedope454]

​@@111076tom tell me when the fuck the swedes were pacifist in the 1600 and 1700s

[@bt7843]

Ryan, I read that Russia AND Germany started WWII when BOTH countries invaded Poland. They were at peace with with each other before and after the Poland invasion. Actually, France and Britain can be held responsible, too. Both countries had treaties to stop German aggression, but they BOTH turned a blind eye when Germany broke various treaties and moved militarily into the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. THEN, Germany and Russia jointly invaded Poland. Usually, you are much more precise.

[@Ayem427]

Arguably WWII had already started when the Japanese kicked off their invasion of China

[@nuclearwinter1984]

You need to read more.

[@bt7843]

😂😂😂

[@sircuffington]

I was wondering when he was going to mention the amount of pandering the U.K. and France were doing when Germany was building a massive military, invading it's neighbors, and potentially starting skirmishes in Poland.

[@user-uu2xr3po4v]

yes, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

[@vbcountryboy]

I’ve been fighting it mostly figuratively but sometimes for real since 2008. I lived in Ukraine pre 2014, went back 3 times to volunteer. The Russians began 2014 sometime in the period 2007-8. Ask me how I know. They declared kinetic war when they microwaved US military/Intel inside USA around 2020, at that point it’s not debatable, if you 300 our guys inside our territory with DE weapons that permanently wound you, you’ve gone kinetic. Russia went kinetic on USA then in my opinion.

[@111076tom]

And all the while the US has decades of being best in the class. Your wrath is justified... How dared Putin put an end to the empires plans to crush Syria? After all, he accepted Yugoslavia and Libya. Why not Syria. Bad bad Putin, not listening to Victoria Nuland...

[@eel845]

Also in 2008 was the second Russian invasion of Georgia

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

go listen to tucker carlson interview with putin, he openly states its his responsibility to restore the borders of the soviet union.

[@vbcountryboy]

Absolutely, that should have been a heads up to everyone. I was i Ukraine when it happened. I happened to attend a Ukrainian military cadet symposium that some students (like ROTC) were going to. It was a Ukrainian lt general or something talking about the Ukrainian plan to defend Crimea, i was like cool ill go (in retrospect probably should not have) but was surprised to see the whole thing was orientated around a surprise NATO attack on Crimea. It was like a time machine back to 1989. I literally looked around for surprised faces when Nato strike fighters from Italy and Turkey bombed Dzankoi etc. The conel responded with naval infantry and air force movements from Russia to reinforce (and help Ukraine) l got a few mean mugs from assorted dudes for looking around in a “is he serious” but anyway my first thought was oh boy they are fucked. I asked through my friend in the QA what if Russia attacks not NATO? Second mistake. Anyone people genuinely laughed. 1) It was obvious to me that Russia was coming 2) i better run after the seminar. Anyway the context of this was Georgian war, moldova leaving communist rule, transniester issues and also gas cutoffs and the naval base lease. I remember thinking that Russia must be spending a lot of money to influence the military and mvd. It was either that or Ukrainians were stupid, which i knew for sure they were not. Influence operations were obvious. Football thugs spray painting anti nato pro CISM stuff, aggresive dudes in g-wagons etc. Few listened to my warnings. They said would USA invade Canada? As analogy. Anyway, influence ops are real and dangerous. Lot of people died through bias. Russia and China don’t think like we do. Its all or nothing with them. Might is always right, etc

[@meatrealwishes]

@@vbcountryboy China, apparently, tries to avoid wars by first using business scams. But their main focus is Russia right now. Putin’s playbook calls for breaking china into 3 pieces and annexation of some territories. Meanwhile, Xi wants outer Manchuria back. Honestly, Europe would have acted like Russia if there was no NATO.

[@JohnSmith99562]

Ryan, I'm digging the Dr. Strangelove bit.

[@akizeta]

I hope there's more than just those three seconds. Enough for a short, at least.

[@111076tom]

If you behave, maybe you get to come on his moon...

[@goforsteve3042]

3:53 Germany and USSR invaded Poland! Don’t forget the Molotov-Ribentropp pact! People has to know that! Russia facilitated the WW2 and after that played the victim and victory show.

[@uioplkhj]

France and Britain snubbed Stalin. Kinda pragmatic for them to ally with the Nazis.

[@111076tom]

"Russia facilitated the WW2" U mean by laying her borders totally naked and inviting the germans to annihilate millions in 41-42? U mean it was their goal to lose +20 MILLION people?That playing the victim-card after losing 14200 ppl PER DAY for 4 years is perhaps a little whiny? The Sovjets lost more men in any given month of the war than the US or the UK (aka as "the winners") did in the whole war. How strange they haven't forgotten this miniscule detail in their history. How strange that they still are so fearful of national-socialists and German tanks. Whiny Russians.

[@Chiefmane1]

@@uioplkhjthe small mustache guy said Usa & Britain chose the wrong side

[@LukeTEvans]

imagine the times western european countries shook hands and then divided up countries in asia and africa.. i guess they arent white people, those things dont start ww3

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Fake

[@MrDubyadee1]

Actually the fighting in asia started with the 1931 invasion of Manchuria by Japan. It was a failure by the world to substantially respond that led to the events causing WWII. I recommend "The Limits of Foreign Policy" by Christopher Thorne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972, 1973 (American edition).

[@user-lt6gh7eL27]

Back when I was 9, I was told by one of my teachers, a vet who at least served in the ARMY during the war in Afghanistan (he said he’d be in command if there were ever a chemical attack or something), that WW3, if it ever happened, would be mostly virtual. Had no idea what he meant when he said that at the time, and he was my favorite teacher ever, I used to play COD black ops when I was that age and when he told us to draw on the backs of the tests when we were done, I drew some zombies and a swastica; I didn’t even know what Nazis were or what they did at the time, other than that they did a lot of stuff during a war and tried to make zombies lol. My teacher, instead of writing me up and calling my parents, decided to read a book that I am unsure of the name of now, but we did a month long lesson/reading group on it, and after that I felt horrified that it happened, horrified that I drew the swastica, and horrified that I didn’t know already. Moral of the story, more than 10 years ago a wise man taught me more than any other teacher could in less than a year, and he also gave a prediction that very much held up pertaining to one of the biggest events I and the rest of humanity will ever experience. No idea why, no idea how, but I now fully understand and agree with what he meant. I have heard it 100,000 times since then, and the first time I heard it I didn’t even have the capacity to process what he meant and thank him for his brutally honest insight.

[@skytron22]

Good lord that was a bunch of nothing. Conclusion? WW3 will be virtual. That was such a wise tidbit of information that it’s stuck with you so deeply for the last 10 years?

[@DaveHalsall3018]

I’m still pissed about 2014. Why did we under react to that annexation. They went all in and I don’t know why we didn’t call their hand back then. 🤨

[@Madara8989]

Because everyone was still scared of Russia's military capabilities. We didn't learn how bad a state the RU military was until they failed to take Ukraine despite the smaller nation. Now everyone knows that Russia is on their last foot and the other lions are starting to notice it limping

[@oveidasinclair982]

The reason...Obozo was the president

[@mattmelton7389]

I find myself wondering how long the current pattern of appeasement and cronyism has been active. It'd be interesting to see if that was a primary reason.

[@SVSky]

@@oveidasinclair982 exactly.

[@etx8920]

​@@oveidasinclair982you na zis are so pretensious 😂

[@bizikimiz6003]

I grew up behind the Iron Curtain. In my history book, the Second World War started with the annexation of Austria, but it also mentioned in fine print that it is valid to date it as early it as the Second Sino-Japanese War that started in 1937, and some people connect it to the invasion of Manjuira or even to one or other event in Korea; however, connecting it to the annexation of Korea in 1910 is perhaps a bit too early a date. Also, later dates can be valid depending on our point of view and research interests.

[@DaFinkingOrk]

Exactly. There was no clear starting date, it just stacked up and escalated bit by bit over years until it reached a peak, then after a few years it finished, and in the time after that there was massive upheaval, the fall of empires and rise of new ones, and a new - very different - global order. A new cold war or uneasy peace replaced the old ones that everyone forgets about (like Britain-Germany, which had been going on for several decades really, like Russia-USA has been now).

[@NinjaSushi2]

1910 would place WW2 before WW1. lol

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Some historians consider WW1 and WW2 as one big conflict

[@pharlan777]

ww3 in the title? KZbin demonetizing this video in 3, 2, 1...

[@Eh-Mungu-Nguvu-Yetu-q8p]

😂😂😂 funny

[@fredbyoutubing]

Don't know, I got adds galore on it.

[@johnshite4656]

@@fredbyoutubing I wouldn't know, I use Brave Browser and ad blockers. Why don't you?

[@Time_Traveling_Corgi]

​@fredbyoutubing of course, you got more ads, YT may disagree, but they still want their cut. . . And his.

[@rafale1981]

Nope, its the shower scene 😉

[@stormthrush37]

While I personally think supporting Ukraine is good, I'm not sure calling that proxy war WW3 is the necessarily the best because Russia is no longer a world-spanning superpower; its economy is the size of Spain. Where you may have more of a case is a certain former President who stands a very good chance of winning again who has previously praised dictators including Putin and is now openly advocating for dictatorship here and is making arguments for it in front of the Supreme Court. The real danger to the US is not Russia, not cyber attacks, or even nuclear weapons, but the battlefield of the mind - the idea that dictatorship is now in the range of acceptable political discourse here in this nation, as long as the candidate has _my_ party affiliation, is unthinkable, and yet here we are.

[@Dunelover-xi8cs]

The Russo-Ukrainian war is to the 21st century, what the Spanish civil war was to the 20th century. A place where weapons and tactics were tried out and refined .

[@gerarddelmonte8776]

My analysis is that WWIII is not one huge cataclysm, but a series of congruent regional wars all feeding off general instability, worldwide.

[@jeffho1727]

A new 100Years War??

[@111076tom]

Have you started on the trilogy?

[@AngelSonevski]

That is not how world wars work

[@DawidEstishort]

30 years' war 2: electric boogaloo

[@martinwebb-jy4im]

AKA the Jackpot

[@user-McGiver]

"'Scare tactics only work on the frightened ones!''... never forget that too...

[@3_character_minimum]

Also works on people with something to loose.

[@NullHand]

​@@3_character_minimumEveryone has at least their life to lose. Which makes the current Global Gerontocracy so hard to predict. When everyone in power is already through 90%+ of their life expectancy?????

[@OutsiderLabs]

@@NullHand If this is WWIII most 18 years olds are also through 90% of their lives

[@johnshite4656]

@@OutsiderLabs America had really low casualty rates compared to the other countries involved in WW1 and WW2. It's one of the reasons the US was so strong economically compared to others after the wars. And of course the US avoided most of the worst fighting by putting boots on the ground only at the very end. Most 18 year olds in the US will live on to become total losers, have no fear.

[@Aconitum_napellus]

​@3_character_minimum Like their hair?

[@stevenobrien557]

Could it not be argued then that the start was Bush II not standing up when Russia sliced off parts of Georgia p?

[@JoeBlow-fp5ng]

Why would the US have to defend Georgia?

[@jakeroper1096]

@@JoeBlow-fp5ngwhy is Putin allowed to invade Georgia? We only care our enemy doesn’t get stronger.

[@Sgt.Hartman]

Yeah its not really fair to blame Obama LOL.

[@arthurstember6572]

Or Obama not standing up when Russia annexed part of Ukraine, which they had a treaty to defend

[@criticalcharge8172]

It’s the same as saying that appeasement before WW2 was the start of WW2.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

After reading Jacobsen's book, I didn't feel afraid of Russia. If anything, I wanted us to be stronger.

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Ryan.

[@dunkelsteinen1747]

I'm liking the video so far Ryan, just a little historical critique. Instead of linking WW1 to Alsace Lorraine, you should have linked it to the Austrian conquest of Bosnia. It closer affected the start of the war by mobilising Serbian nationalists, of which Gavrilo Princep was one, while Alsace was taken decades prior from a nation who did not ignite things per se. As well, I would argue WW2 started in 1937 with the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, helping to clarify how smaller conflicts can add up to greater ones, because that war directly was part of the greater conflict of the Second World War if albeit a single theatre. I also appreciate not going to hard on the political digs when you brought up the statement by Communists in Chicago. On one hand you could have gone further, but on the other I think you also realise that there's a decent amount of people on the right who have been dupped in this situation like MTG in Congress. Now it's less about politics and more so the depth of the politics. An example, I'm against invading any countries for anything other than self defence, so I wasn't a huge fan of Iraq or Afghanistan. But that's also why I'm pro-Ukraine in the current conflict.

[@111076tom]

So you think it was fair game for the Nuland-junta in Kiev to use cluster munitions in Donetsk 10 years ago? The fact that you "enlightened and exceptional" undereducatet Americans are still floating is a miracle...

[@dunkelsteinen1747]

​@@111076tom I don't, nor do I agree with Ukraine changing its language laws, or putting troops too close to civilians as per the Amnesty report from a couple years ago. This doesn't mean that I then support an invasion a decade after the fact that kills hundreds of times the amount of people. This whole situation is at Russia's feet, including Ukraine's reactions. If you want things to get better, have the Russians leave. And it's a bit ironic you would call Ukraine a junta despite having a change of presidents and political elites with each election since Euromaidan, yet Russia has been headed by the same handful of oligarchs and KGB agents since the end of the Yeltsin regime. One is clearly drifting into a more democratic way of doing things, the other is the same Russia as before the Soviet Union, just with oligarchs instead of nobles.

[@declanclaus6681]

Well thought out comment. The point about the Chicago newspaper is really good.

[@JustinianCharter-ie9bk]

​@@111076tomRuzzian spoted

[@111076tom]

@@dunkelsteinen1747 You speak as if nothing happened in that decade. You speak as if Kreml has done nothing but lean back and then suddenly attack. You speak as if Nuland telling the world about the 5 billion dollars spent in Ukraine pre 2014 doesn't matter. Russia is the same as the Sovjet Union!? Are you trolling? What is the tax rate in the US? What is the tax rate in Russia? Russia us less socialists than the US. U speak as if you were a child.

[@TriplicateTrey]

This is a good mix of education about current and previous events, as well as a good antidote to fear mongering.

[@111076tom]

😂 Are you talking about the fear monger himself? Educational? Sure, if you are in high school...

[@i-love-comountains3850]

​@@111076tom Ok, Ivan.

[@i-love-comountains3850]

​@@111076tom😂 Ok, Ivan. Sure.👍

[@111076tom]

@@i-love-comountains3850 What an NPC answer. Washington bots are so depressing... Why not just stay up in the "co" mountains?

[@robertstan2349]

everyone was expecting mushroom clouds and the immediate end of civilization. it's hard to get through to these folks and make them understand that that isn't how it has been playing out

[@stevenobrien557]

Things could escalate quickly from a relatively benign point

[@brianhirt5027]

God, I know. I can't even begin to calculate how many hours i've burned trying to walk a general public through realistic expectations. A huge chunk of it is absorbed by having to repeat myself explaining the changes to nuclear strategy first,.

[@danielmartin7838]

Chinese military doctrine calls it “unrestricted warfare”.

[@111076tom]

​@@brianhirt5027but u guys still want to play an away game in Russia?

[@MMDCLXVI]

I would ask, what is a realistic look at WW3? I mean, I can't help but feel anxious about the possibility of a nuke war and whenever the news talk about it, it's just nuclear ths nuclear that.

[@teblack2]

If WW3 is around the corner, “keeps” is the least of my concerns hahaha

[@jasperlilienfeld505]

I disagree with Ryan’s view on this and here is why. This is a topic I’ve thought about at length and discussed at length with my university lecturers and friends. Both World Wars were characterised by rapid technological development and multiple actors on both sides. BUT they were also characterised by long fuses and political pressure to go to war years before war broke out. The current conflict does shares those characteristics but it doesn’t share the domain aspect that Ryan outlined. A World War needs multiple concurrent theatres of conflict. Right now it is limited to just one, Russia and Ukraine. The war is the Middle East is yet to involve another country. China hasn’t invaded Taiwan. We are firmly in the built up period. Global war is coming but it’s not here yet. The political pressure to go war is there and it is bubbling. But it hasn’t reached crisis point.

[@pippy6677]

I always appreciate the clarity and the grounding of your analysis. Thank you.

[@89RASMUS]

I think the atomic question is put a bit wrong. "Can Russia use a nuclear weapon and get away with it?" would seem a better way of putting it. If Russia would use a tactical level nuclear strike in Ukraine, would NATO really step up to counter that, or just try to downplay the matter fearing a larger strike on its own territory?

[@willpugh8865]

Everything you said is very very true, but a lot of it applies to a ton of conflicts since ww2. There were Chinese working against the soviets just like US in Afghanistan in the 80’s , Russians and Chinese helping the NVA in the 50’s 60’s 70’s while French American Australian etc etc fought against them. I would say the qualifier for a World War™ would be combat on most domains.

[@piotrr5439]

12:19 nukes could also be used to destroy civilian population's morale..... you forgot that or that is not true?

[@KillerBD]

I love how Russia just invaded Crimea for no reason in 2014. Literally everyone in Ukraine was busy celebrating Democracy and Freedom, they were about to be united with the EU and join NATO. By mere luck while on vacation: Victoria Nuland and John McCain even handed out cookies and coordinated with the event organizers to prepare the Rada for Democracy! Soooo close! But just like H1tler, POOtin couldn't handle the threat of Freedom, Liberty, and Pride Flags right on his border. So he sent in his orcs to stir up trouble and interfere in Ukraine's democracy! Just like POOtin stole our election in 2016 with trump!

[@KillerBD]

Slava Ukraini!

[@QwoaX]

We are kind of in a superposition of two states right now. WW3 has both started and not started depending on whether it turns into a global material conflict or not. Wagner in Africa and South America could play a role, West Taiwan vs. Taiwan, Iran vs. Israel and Saudi. Russia in Europe, whether it turns nuclear or not, should be a curbstomp given how much Russia is worn down already. That wouldn't qualify as a "world" war but as a European war.

[@insanetrickster]

"We are kind of in a superposition of two states right now. WW3 has both started and not started depending on whether it turns into a global material conflict or not." This is perhaps among the most erudite summations I've read about this point in time. This encapsulates my view too.

[@mw9297]

Talking about nuclear exchange like it nothing. Half the modern world would be vaporized.

[@QwoaX]

@@mw9297 At worst, Russia would be able to punch a hole into a couple of cities, nothing civilization-ending and I doubt this war would go nuclear. Putin wants his daughters and himself to live and not evaporate and he knows that Nato, as long as a war stays conventional, will be surgical and show kindness towards the Russian people once they surrendered as the US did with Germany and Japan after WW2, which yielded them some usefull allies. So there's no reason for Russia and Putin (plus whoever needs to greenlight a nuclear response) to go nuclear. Whether Putin, his family and all the oligarchs get to keep their position of power and stolen wealth is a different story, maybe one that the Russian people themselves have to decide...

[@thadisturbedone1606]

​@mw9297 we have systems in place to shoot down nukes. It's not like every or even the majority would hit major cities. And in a few years the falloutbwould dissipate

[@totalNERD-eo7wx]

@@thadisturbedone1606 Assuming missile shields will work so well is a bad move

[@chrisrolfe4630]

Awesome clip Ryan...facts, thoughts, perspective...

[@sirshauniv511]

We've become too complacent and ungrateful for what we have to realise what is unfolding right in front of us. When we can't be bothered to fight, what hope do we have?

[@probablynotanagent5594]

Why fight this fight at all is the real question? If we lost Alaska. We would probably want that back when we were doing alright again. Not our circus

[@sirshauniv511]

​@@probablynotanagent5594I have no idea what you're trying to say.

[@DaFinkingOrk]

We need to build something worth fighting for, that's got to be the first priority. Then people will happily fight (happily is the wrong word but you get the point).

[@sirshauniv511]

@@DaFinkingOrk And therein lies the Catch 22. We can't be bothered to fight if we don't have anything worth fighting for, but we never will have anything worth fighting for if we can't be bothered to fight for it. Thanks to how much we take our luxurious lifestyles for granted, this simple logic loop could well be our undoing.

[@brucebr1037]

​@@probablynotanagent5594 Learn some history. Or just watch this video more carefully. These fights don't stay local. Dictators are never satisfied. Plus we live in an interconnected world, virtually and physically. Major chaos will cause effects everywhere. We need to stand up and stop this now.

[@BadDadio]

Yes, we are fighting WWIII. Your analysis is spot on. The Crimean invasion gave the green light to Russia.

[@SCYTHE2525]

That was fire. Keep it up! I believe your argument is sound and your rationale strong.

[@jamesreyes4184]

Man Ryan what a great video!!! Thanks for all the work you put in on a daily basis to help fight the spread of misinformation . Luv ya

[@Chilly_Billy]

I think this is mostly an exercise in semantics. If the current war in Ukraine is WW3, why was not the Korean War? It involved multiple countries, most of whom had to no direct irons in the fire. They nevertheless fought openly (both Koreas, several UN countries and China) or covertly (Soviet Union). IMO, the Russo-Ukrainian War is just another regional conflict. A big one, no doubt, but certainly not WW3 in the sense most people would define such an event.

[@mariuso0o0o0]

It could also just be another crimean war (no pun intended)

[@NX4.6GT315]

Can you be quiet...... We're trying to convince people that war with Russia is a good thing.

[@zachowon]

Korea was a single theater. It was only in Korea. WW1 and WW2 were all over the world. Key diffrence

[@delfinenteddyson9865]

I have to say I like the definition of historia civilis the best: he defined the world wars as great power conflicts. So you would need at least two great powers to start something of that scale.

[@LukeTEvans]

@@NX4.6GT315 i usually gamble in something that holds value.. not toilet paper like the paper money we hold..

[@dw5523]

"BRAIN!" "Yeah?" "A new Ryan McBeth video dropped, but I've got work!" "Then I guess work can wait." "Oh yeah."

[@christerjonsall5415]

Soo... When I saw Brain mentioned my mind went "conversation between Pinky and Brain". Correct, yes?

[@brentmartin6833]

Narf!

[@InderMand79]

Well done sir 🙌

[@HNH421]

oh i know Americans have a brain - it was the bit , where he seid Americans' have minds, i was sceptical about 🤔- the rest of the info seemed true

[@76hkh]

Lets take a look at Russia's situation: >exhausted most of its modern equipment and relies on supplied or stored outdated gear. >so many young men had died that grandpas will have to fight nato if that ever happens. >Russia's allies without china are mostly second-third world countries. I think it is safe to say without a nuclear war they don't stand a chance against economically and technologically superior west

[@Ananda72]

More parallels with WW1, the return of trench warfare, and the development of drones first as recon, then as bombers dropping explosives on people parallels the development of the airplane

[@aa5df]

Oh man! The Dr Strangelove spoof was both brilliant and awesome! Well done!

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

Glad you liked it!

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

@@RyanMcBethProgramming go listen to the tucker carlson interview with putin, he openly states its his responsibility to restore the borders of the soviet union. we are in a 1938 moment before ww2 where germany is invading czechoslovakia for their number 1 arms industry with the promise they wont invade other countries in the future. emboldened with czech arms the germans invaded poland and started ww2 shortly after.

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

@@RyanMcBethProgramming did you hear at st petersburg conference, putin spilled the beans but likely on the low side russia taking 5k kia a month?

[@alinaanto]

Fantastic content! I appreciate every video Ryan puts out, but this one was outstanding!

[@Sarahredzoee4]

Great video Ryan, thank you so much❤

[@FlyingScot57]

An educated and reasoned discussion. Thank you, plenty of points to argue/discuss but you make a compelling case based on facts and not emotion. Keep up the good work

[@RMA_DNA]

Being on Seb Gorka show is not a flex. It actually makes me a little dubious. Food for thought 🤔 💭 Glad you included the clip. Sadly insightful

[@TheAviationJason]

Most your content is great, this one was especially fantastic. Very informative. 👍

[@luminyam6145]

That video was really thoughtful and excellent, thank you.

[@remembertostayhydrated]

Thank you!

[@ToMgRoEbE]

The logical flaw to your argument is that any American that comes to his or her own conclusion that continuation of this war is not in our best interests is able to be dismissed as an American that fell for the Russian propaganda. De-escalation smearing is a great to keep us on the escalation ladder to oblivion.

[@notfound379]

Thank You Ryan. Stay the course.

[@michaelstewart8098]

As always extremely informative and honest love these videos.

[@lennytheleopard]

Thanks for this

[@stephenlane3099]

The war is also moving into Africa and France.

[@111076tom]

France already lost Africa. Wagner isn't dead just because Prigozhin got a new identity...

[@drewmalesky9869]

...and the Middle East. Possibly east Asia.

[@drewmalesky9869]

​@@111076tom lol. I think you need to change out your foil hat, the CIA already degraded your current one. 😂

[@111076tom]

@@drewmalesky9869 THAT is all you got!? U child... My hat has a deeper analysis than you brain. That is sad. (Not for my hat).

[@a5cent]

​@@111076tom lol That tinfoil hat must be super heavy. France didn't occupy Africa, so they can't "lose" it. Duh. At most they can lose influence, and that has certainly happened. Let's cut the drama queen no sense.

[@Bota367]

Dear Ryan, I really like your content. Please elaborate why Korean war is not WW3, Vietnam war WW4, Soviet Afgan war WW5. We can put in Arab-Israeli wars also in WW category. Proxy wars of great powers should not be labeled as World wars, same goes for Ukraine war from 2014 until today 😊

[@AG-iu9lv]

The cold war never really ended.

[@CAStone-kq4md]

Yes . Let’s get some tacos and corona,beer .

[@BackYardScience2000]

Corona? 🤮

[@CAStone-kq4md]

@@BackYardScience2000 Start getting reacquainted with the cheap stuff . Trust me .

[@CAStone-kq4md]

@chrismeister2554 Silly Wabbit . Nothing is real , it’s why we drink !

[@papamurrth1]

Been saying it since February 2022 and have been called hysterical

[@giovanni-ed7zq]

its not ww3 yet. its more like 1938 where germans want to take czechoslovakia for their number 1 arms industry in the world with the promise they wont invade other countries in the future. if the uk and france had said no and backed the czechs then ww2 would not have started.

[@frankschwarz408]

Would it be safer to say we are fighting a new cold war instead? I think most casuals like myself imagine world war 3 has official started when US troops are fighting either Chinese or Russian troops directly, and not through their proxies. Let me know what you think.

[@Bleilock1]

Imho thats perspective of ww2 starting with germany invading poland But the way i see it the ww2 started with spanish civil war, sino-japanese war and italian invasion of ethiopia The american chinese war might very well be on its way

[@ejdo9989]

I agree. Thanks. Your analysis is incredible.

[@twallen44140]

Applying the same rationale I think you could (rightly) characterize the cold war as World War III; just war in another guise than we may traditionally think of it. The cold war certainly played out in the same theaters you identified. I am a little more worried that weapons of mass destruction might be used for their psychological effect more than for their tactical battlefield effect. A small nuclear weapon used by any side would certainly lead to expanding the conflict, so it seems like false flag attacks would be one risk. Any nuclear attack (an overt one where the attacker takes responsibility or a covert one where the attacker blames the other guy) would intimidate and frighten the civilian population to a point where it might break the will of people to fight. Everything you said in your video absolutely makes sense. It's just that the informational and psychological theaters seem like they would provide the justification for resorting to attacks that are more spectacular if less valid from from other tactical perspectives; seems like the events that started GWOT are an example.

[@robotsweee]

Excellent product transition Ryan 😄

[@noco7243]

Submarines were invented during the Civil War.

[@rolfoliversen5821]

It is great to hear this prospective. History and critical thinking, the knowledge you share is greatly appreciated. Thank you Ryan.

[@adamsmith-bg5wq]

I'm not sure about this definition of World War. WW1-2 were fought by multitudes of countries with 10s of millions of boots on the ground and people dying on several continents and oceans. Those wars were fought by a good proportion of the world's population over a good proportion of the world. So far, the kinetic war is Russians and Ukrainians fighting each other mostly in Ukraine. And I don't think fighting in the information space fits with most people's conception of "World War" or else we'd have been fighting world wars ever since the dawn of time. Though I don't think we're currently anywhere near anyone's definition of World War currently, the pieces are in place for a July Crisis if other countries(China anyone?) get involved in a kinetic war in other theaters.

[@EndingSimple]

Only Ryan would use World War III as a lead in to a male pattern baldness product.

[@tristant1385]

They both involve fallout.

[@MrJDFallon]

@@tristant1385😂

[@Dave-om6nd]

Yup, Ryan is one of the few that gets it. Thank you Ryan.

[@JoeBlow-fp5ng]

Get's what...Besides paychecks from Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics?

[@Dave-om6nd]

@@JoeBlow-fp5ng Go touch grass.

[@KanjoNights]

While they do share several characteristics, I think the one stark difference between the current conflict and a World War is the scale. World War II engulfed multiple continents and 70 total nations took part in the conflict.

[@dlmcnamara]

Yes, it lacks the “world” aspect. WWIi had theaters across the world (Atlantic, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the med, Africa, se Asia, china, pacific). So far it’s just been Russia w/ indirect support against Ukraine w/ indirect support fighting in Ukraine snd Russia, and the Black Sea. There’s not even multiple nations providing combat troops on either side (yet)

[@toddapplegate3988]

Yet is very relevant.

[@urbanarmory]

It's just getting started. Look at all the countries currently threatening military action or currently aligning themselves with Russia/China/Iran, or against them. Right now, most of the world is picking teams.

[@zerk813]

@@urbanarmorythough those nations lack any international capacity. They can protest and support all they want. But they don’t have the capacity to put troops abroad.

[@veronicamaine3813]

Well we could say we are at the point where German took Czechoslovakia in WW2. Not technically seen as part of WW2 but the point where the war was inevitable.

[@FreeFallingAir]

Thanks Ryan, Keep on keeping on man.

[@jerrycoob4750]

Here's my take: We're definitely _not_ in WW3 right now, but we're getting close to that precipice. The world right now is in a period of proxy warfare of equal scale and intensity to the Cold War. Russia attacking democratic Ukraine with China's help and America helping Ukraine defend itself; the campaign against American interests in the Middle East fought by Iran's proxies; and, though not a conflict zone yet, the tense military standoff ongoing in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. You might call it Cold War Two. In my mind, for a World War to be a World War you need multiple great powers with global interests engaging in direct warfare against one another: WW1 was fought between the Entente and Central Powers in Europe and their colonies, WW2 involved damn well nearly every country on Earth, and a Cold-War-Gone-Hot WW3 would've been fought between the transatlantic NATO and the Eurasia-spanning Warsaw Pact. I think what's going on right now is that a lot of Zoomers are waking up to find a period of intense global competition and international warfare that my generation never grew up in as post-Cold War kids, and so don't quite know what to make of it yet. But only if we see _direct_ Great Power-on-Great Power warfare - whether Russia attacking NATO or China launching a naval war in the pacific - _then_ the Third World War will have started.

[@CMB21497]

I love it Ryan. Dr. Stragelove! You make a great Peter Sellers. I hope you're wrong and once again, we can "put the genie back in the bottle".

[@Jhossack]

Great doctor strangelove. You got game

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

Thank you

[@magnettilemanalt]

History is defined by the victors you can spend hours and years of your life, trying to define wars and situations. In the end it doesn’t matter. The victor will just tell the history of books when it started.

[@unixsocks]

Because we only have one source of history and history isn't constantly evolving to become more accurate

[@joemerino3243]

@@unixsocks It's clearly not becoming more accurate. Almost all history humanity has ever known is lost forever. What do you know of the great empires of 500,000 years ago? What of their stern emperors, their beautiful princesses, their brave warriors? What of the intrepid explorers who first laid foot to Australia, Sri Lanka, England? Their names are gone, their deeds forgotten.

[@unixsocks]

@@joemerino3243 civilization didn't exist 500,000 years ago

[@ΘΑΝΟΣΠΑΠΑΣΩΤΗΡΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ]

Pretty sure they don't exist that far back​@@joemerino3243

[@johanvanbeek7138]

Extremely well thought out Ryan.

[@DavidKoppana-iq8jr]

Excellent analysis and historical perspective thank you very much Ryan.

[@Andrew-ih2gz]

I'm glad I don't care about my hair thinning. Dad never cared, grandpa never cared. It's just something I have to pay to get rid of periodically.

[@tenchotenchev5606]

I'm not balding but really struggle to find why hair thinning could be an issue to someone. Just shave, it's much more comfortable and practical anyway. Plus if you get ripped you look more badass.

[@Andrew-ih2gz]

@@tenchotenchev5606 yeah, to me, hair is something you have to pay to get rid of. Lol. If it ever gets bad enough, perhaps I will buy a razor for it.

[@111076tom]

That is why your grandma and mother is better on radio than TV...

[@denniscasey986]

09:37. Scott Ritter seems to be doing this.

[@mikes.4136]

The male pattern baldness got me, too. 😢

[@Vaderoid]

One of us! One of us!

[@111076tom]

Hence the overt jealousy of Putin. So transparent...

[@khulgarulfsson8067]

Apparently, red (650nm) light can stimulate hair growth. Not entirely sure if it helps MPB, but maybe try googling it. There are several studies with red light and hair growth.

[@Schizohandlers]

Norwood reaper...

[@ermcm3]

WW3 would include cyber, information and economic warfare domains. I've been saying for a while that WW3 started with the Stuxnet attack. Russian and Chinese disinformation campaigns attempting to meddle with American elections since at least 2016 would also be included.

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

Great content, Mr. McBeth. Thanks.

[@Nordy941]

WWI begins in 1871 WWII begins in 1919 WWIII began in 1946 Turns out war never ends..

[@Critissimus]

Not sold Ryan. While this could be a precursor to ww3, not enough actors are officially in the conflict (declared war or active combat presence). Even Russia is not fully on a war footing, so no ww3 until multiple nations are in. May happen, but I don't see Russia pulling anyone else into active conflict.

[@JBS2018]

It doesnt need to be to that level to have it be WWIII. This time period (2014 - present) will be considered the early war years. Much is yet to come and it has indeed started.

[@steveherje4025]

Russia is on a full war footing. How the mighty have fallen.

[@silverbird425]

@@JBS2018 agreed

[@АлексейЛипов-с2р]

Now that North Korea is there, what’s your take?

[@AJ1770s]

By your logic this is technically world war IV because the Cold war was world war III

[@LukeTEvans]

give it time.. ww4 is fought with sticks and stones... because we wont even have the pleisicine stone culture our ancestors had... just fumbling with garbage left behind until it rusts away until what survives evolves back into some new beast

[@LukeTEvans]

and the uncontacted tribes will take who knows how long restablishing tooled humanity

[@AJ1770s]

@@LukeTEvans ?

[@RapidAssaultEuro]

I disagree with this video. Whilst regional conflicts can conflagrate into global conflicts, it's difficult to draw the line of when that occurs, except by looking retroactively. If the war in Ukraine ended today, would we say "oh thank god WWIII is over!" ? Of course we would not. There is just not the large scale fighting or dying across multiple fronts or continents, that was set by the previous two precedents. Might this become WWIII? Yes, but that's only making a prediction of what might happen in the future. Right now China is only posturing, and Iran is mostly fighting by proxies. The criteria about new technologies being used, that happens in every war when new technology is available. Finally, one of your main points is that the West is in an information war with Russia. Von Clausewitz once said "war is an extension of politics by other means". My opinion is that information war is firstly part of politics, so by calling it war you are diluting the meaning of what war is, fighting and dying on a large scale. Influence operations seems like a better term to me.

[@Pirojok92]

Speaking of Nuclear strikes... Many Ukrainian civilians believe that Russia could actually use nuclear weaponry against Ukraine at some point. While you counted almost all the possible reasons, you still missed one more important way of using the nuke, though. It's called 'terrorizing the population and breaking their morale'. If a nuclear missile could hit a major Ukrainian city, it would deliver a serious wound on the society and show Russian domination. At least in the eyes of Russian military. And if you consider that as an unlikely scenario, I can bring you an example of what's happening right now, when Russia bombards Ukrainian infrastructure, trying to leave Ukraine without any electricity whatsoever. Since majority (if not all) military production and/or army bases are supplied with generators, I personally don't see any other reason than terror. And again, in this case majority of western countries, or NATO, or UN, or whatever else organizations are there, will unlikely to deliver a mirrored hit. Sanctions? Yes, sure, but nothing more serious, unfortunately. The majority of western politicians are too afraid to escalate the situation, without understanding that by showing no response they're EXACTLY escalating it. But yeah, this is just my 5 cents here...

[@Deltarious]

As someone who has studied both world wars I think you're flat out wrong about your conclusions here. We don't consider the formal start to either world war to be until the direct (or *proximate* ) cause of the war happens, the thing that sets all the events in motion wherein all the sides after the event immediately begin the inevitable process of joining the war, formally, and in short order. Kinetic actions do *not* immediately need to follow (See: phoney war) but formal commencement of military hostilities in some regard *does* What is happening now would be more akin to a combination of the buildup to WWI and a new cold war. If formal hostilities between major powers haven't started yet and you consider the start of WWIII to be 2014 then you are just flat wrong about the start of the war, as it would commonly be known by history. You literally even touch on it yourself when you explain how there was *buildup* to WWI ("sowing the seeds"). I am confounded as to why you cannot, or will not, apply this to your own examples. You do it *again* with WWII when you talk about how "there was technically fighting going on in Asaia for four yeas" Have you not stopped to ask yourself *why* we don't consider that the formal start of the war? Why we don't count things like the Japanese invasion of Manchuria? Or the Spanish Civil War? Do Korea and Vietnam not count? Especially if we are going by your 2014 criteria? Why not? What makes these different? Is it because they did not ultimately end up escalating further? It really feels like your definition of a 'world war', or at least what constitutes the *start* of one is pretty busted and you need a better one, unless you want to dispute when the other world wars started, which go ahead, at least you will be consistent then, just other people will not share your definition. "Information warfare" has existed almost as long as land based warfare, even things as simple as demoralising the enemy, hiding your numbers are information warfare, it's just that we got much more advanced with it. Serious attempts at information warfare were made before WWII began to affect the convictions of the allies who did not want to go to war again- it worked, it's called appeasement. We still do not consider that the start of WWII, nor should we as while yes it is an 'attack' nobody declared formal (or kinetic) hostilities over it, an option which was always available to them, just as it is now. WWIII has not begun yet. The conditions for it to begin *may* exist, but there has yet to be an obvious trigger, and the war in Ukraine certainly would not be counted as the start of it, but perhaps a cause of it, this conflict *could* escalate...into a new conflict, distinct from the parameters and motivations that lead to the war in Ukraine. I think you would perhaps do well to speak with some game theory polysci type guys, the people who do the *actual science* of war and look at it by the numbers, I think that might change your perspective quite a bit, especially since it is backed by peer reviewed evidence and it tracks onto reality very well. William Spaniel is one such guy (with a PhD) who also happens to be on YT P.S. the start of WWI can be slightly debatable depending on what you want to define as the true start, i.e does an action that leads to an inevitable declaration of war count, or does the declaration actually matter more? but it is commonly considered to either on 28th June with the assassination, or 28th July 1914 with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, not August 1st. It didn't become a *world* war until later, but it was the start of the exact same conflict, they were not distinct.

[@andreibarbu6029]

The argument you make feels out of place, and I found out why. You accidentally or intentionally used a logical fallacy, you misrepresented what made a world war a world war, it wasn't the new technologies, multiple participants or use of propaganda, if that was the case we would be at the billionth world war, it was the total implication of multiple nations from every single continent. After all, we don't call the cold war, or the Vietnam war, world wars, just wars. So what do we have now then? We are still sowing the seeds for the world war that is to come. Also, the invasion of Crimea and the current war in Ukraine are not the same conflict, they are related and a continuation, but not the same. As before there are many examples of connected wars being separated, there are two Balkan wars for a reason.

[@mumbairay]

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[@LukeTEvans]

i guess your just another belligerant... no matter what you call your self, your a belligerant..

[@LukeTEvans]

because of your actions... if i had a family are they now belligerants?

[@bobster852]

A lot of historians consider the invasion of Manchuria as the start of WW2. That particular attack, started by a false flag where some japanese soldiers planted a small explosive that did nothing, next to their own train in order to justify an assault on the local chinese forces, bears a lot of similarities to the 2014 attack by Russians. The key difference in Manchuria was that it was the army forcing the civilian governments hand. One could argue that the Japanese military _was_ modern and effective, unlike Russia. But both countries had and have clear economic shortcomings in being able to maintain long term operations. The Japanese did eventually seem to grasp this issue, but chose to solve it in the stupidest way possible, attacking the US. The Russians got the the stupid decisions much earlier and decided to burn up all their strategic investments, stored material and volunteer soldiers as soon as possible. Zerg rush FTW.

[@lucemiserlohn]

12:50 - Nuclear weapons have a sixth use case, destroying electrical infrastructure and computerized networks. A seventh use case would be area denial use (rather short term, though) to channel enemy movement in your favor. Not a very efficient use, but still, against large scale movement pretty effective (but not without side effects, for sure).