Last week, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in the next five years, and said we are moving "from a post-war to pre-war world".

The head of the British Army said UK citizens should be "trained and equipped" to fight in a potential war with Russia, describing those living today as the "pre-war generation".

General Sir Patrick Sanders' comments prompted anxiety about conscription - something Britain's former top NATO commander General Sir Richard Sherriff said it was time to consider.

Sir Patrick added that the war in Ukraine was a "pressure point" and added that "we cannot afford to make the same mistake" as our predecessors who "stumbled into... ghastly wars", such as the First World War in 1914.

Meanwhile in the Middle East, UK and US forces have launched airstrikes on Yemen in response to the Iranian-backed Houthis' attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Sky News spoke to experts about whether World War Three is a possibility - and if we really are living in a "pre-war world".

Here's what they had to say...



moar

Probably

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@eagarminuteman

we're still gonna be battle buddies when we get drafted for WWIII, right?

JLP3:  does this mean Lujan's not coming?

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Every western leader today is a dickless cowardly leftist.

Any country with Empirical aspirations knows that and are planning their moves accordingly.

Shit we can bring her along, she’ll make sure the MRE is ready when we’re done clearing trenches in the Ukraine.

Sure sure, but will it be at a time and manner of our choosing?

There's always a death ray or a battle cruiser or the threat of WWIII, we just need to make sure that people don't know it and can go about their everyday lives.

I’ll give it 96 hours.

How does one become an expert at world war three?

Possibly, it's how they would integrate the illegal migrants. Plus, it's a windfall for the defense sector and not just that but for those playing the market.  

You see the war would require either conscription, which would be very unpopular or the acceptance of illegal aliens into the military. After that  selling the public on granting citizenship to not just those who serve, but all illegal or at least the children (the leftist NGOs have purposely brought in a ton of unaccompanied minors for that purpose)..  

Chaos is a ladder that the insidious use to climb to power. It is very good at breaking political deadlock and shaking up the status quo to allow for manipulation.  

Hell, why do you think all the wealthy are building bunkers and apocalypse compounds?   We'll have some kind of Black Swan event in the next five years.

Wow...I mean wow.

It's a definite maybe. It's fun speculating about it until the wrong politician gets offed and suddenly you're dodging mortar fire, staring across noman's land and praying you don't have to go over the top

By reading the dozen threads about in the GD.

If you haven’t already, there’s no time to waste in acquiring a taste for human flesh.

After hours in the Senate hearing room.

[very enthusiastically]  Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?

No.

Its Groundhog Day, muchacho! Its the day for breaking long term cycles.