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RUSSIA says its 16,000mph hypersonic Satan-2 missile which can fit 12 nuclear warheads and could destroy the UK will go into service within a year.

The Kremlin will also significantly increase the number of test launches of its nuke-tipped rockets in 2022, amid fears its tensions with neighbour Ukraine could spark World War 3.

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And the head of Moscows strategic missile forces Col-Gen Sergey Karakayev vowed to replace the Mach-27 capable Avangard hypersonic gliding unit by the time the West finds an antidote to it.

This comes as images purport to show heavy weaponry suspected to be en route to a military field camp near the village of Klintsy in Bryansk region, some 28 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Vladimir Putin has amassed more than 100,000 troops near the border in a terrifying escalation of hostilities in recent months.

Meanwhile, Russia today marks its annual Day of Strategic Rocket Forces.

Speaking of the Satan-2 weapon, also known as Sarmat, Col-Gen Karakayev said: "Starting from 2022, it is planned to begin gradual removal of the heavy-class silo-based Voyevoda missile system and replace it with Sarmat."

The 15,880mph weapon can deliver between 10 and 15 warheads that weigh up to 10-tonnes to any point in the world flying over both the North and South Poles, say the Kremlin.

It has the capability to use trajectories and unpredictable routes which substantially impede their destruction even by advanced missile defence systems.

Karakayev also vowed to keep developing hypersonic weapons - which move too fast for current missile defence systems - to stay ahead of the West.

He said: "We must understand this and do it and go further with hypersonic weapons.

By the time they find an antidote, we must have found another solution to this.

And today we are working on it. There are developments, there is work in progress.

I think that this task is within our reach.

Moscow also made clear that in the coming year it would launch more than ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) - rockets which can fly across the globe.

This compares with a total of 25 such launches in the past five years, indicating a significant increase.

Western leaders have warned Russia against the strategic mistake of invading Ukraine, threatening unprecedented sanctions against Moscow.

New military movements highlighted by Zaspisky Okhotnika Telegram channel were interpreted as boosting forces with heavy weapons at military field camps near the village off Klintsy.

Tanks are seen being moved by train. Russia has strongly insisted that it is entitled to move military forces on its own territory, and denied it intends to invade Ukraine.

The West has expressed deep concern over the number of Russian forces in Voronezh region.

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has insisted that her country has no aggressive intentions.

We have repeatedly said that on our sovereign territory we have every right to move military units at our own discretion, she said.

But she claimed that NATO is doing everything to destabilise the situation on the continent and undermine the foundations of European security."

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Putins 16,000mph Satan-2 nuke with 12 warheads that could destroy UK to be ready in a year in WW3 fears... - The US Sun

China made its intentions clear when the country's state media said that their troops will "fire on" any US soldiers sent to "defend Taiwan at all costs," as the communist country flies planes around the island's airspace.

On Friday, China sent six J-16 fighters, two J-10 fighters, two H-6 bombers, one Y-8 spy plane, one Y-8 anti-submarine plane, and one KJ-500 spy plane to menace Taiwan's airspace, sparking fears of an invasion.

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan vowed that Washington will 'never allow' a Chinese invasion to take place, inciting the ire of The Global Times newspaper, a mouthpiece for China's Communist rulers.

"Nobody believes the US has the true will to defend Taiwan at all costs," the Global Times wrote, adding that: "The US is far away from 'defending Taiwan' at the cost of a deadly war."

"The US mainly provides military support to Taiwan by selling weapons," the piece went on. "Those weapons are generally destined to be destroyed by the People's Liberation Army as soon as the reunification by force takes place.

"It is credible that the PLA will heavily attack US troops who come to Taiwan's rescue. Such credibility is increasingly overwhelming the deterrence that US troops have."

Tension between Taiwan and China has reached boiling point amid warnings a full scale invasion could take place by 2025.

On October 10, Taiwan celebrated its National Day, just as it has done on the 10th day of the 10th month every year for the last 110 years to commemorate the Wuchang uprising which brought an end to the final imperial dynasty.

The paper said the US involvement in the "Taiwan issue" will only worsen the situation.

"If the US continues to regard the Taiwan island as a pawn to contain the Chinese mainland and send wrong signals to the [government], then the situation will keep on worsening," it said.

"Resolving the Taiwan question by force will become the inevitable and only choice for the Chinese mainland."

The self-ruled island of Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China (ROC), that exists today formed in 1949 when the government that once ruled the entire nation fled there following the Civil War with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which now rules over the neighbouring mainland, or People's Republic of China (PRC).

Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to reunify the island, by force if necessary, in a speech in 2019.

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While Patty Jenkins Has Now Left Cleopatra, Wonder Woman 3 Is Still Not Expected To Go On Floors Before 2023 ( Photo Credit Wikipedia ; WW84 Poster )

There is of course a lot happening around the two most successful women in Hollywood including Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins. The two have given DC one of its most lucrative and successful franchise in Wonder Woman where Gal plays the leading lady Diana Prince. But while the third part in the trilogy is expected soon, it doesnt seem like it is happening anytime soon, reports say at least till 2023. Adding more shock to Jenkins kitty is that she had to drop out of Cleopatra, that also starred her muse Gadot.

If you are unaware, it was revealed this year itself that Gal is all set to play Cleopatra in a period drama that will feature her as the iconic Egyptian queen in a period drama. Amid all of that with the release of WW84, DC was quick to announce Wonder Woman 3 and Jenkins was back to work as her other film Star Wars: Rogue Squadron also met a uncertain delay due to creative differences.

But now the news says, Patty Jenkins has been replaced in Cleopatra and that doesnt mean things will move faster on Wonder Woman 3, since Gal Gadot is still super busy. Read on to know everything you should about the same.

Deadlines Justin Kroll took to his verified Twitter handle to share the news that Gadots Cleopatra will now be directed by Falcon And The Winter Soldier fame Kari Skogland and not Patty. He wrote, Falcon And The Winter Soldier director Kari Skogland to helm Paramount Pictures CLEOPATRA starring Gal Gadot as Patty Jenkins moves into producing role.

He went on to also reveal that now that Patty is free she will focus on Wonder Woman 3, but that does not mean that the film will go on floors before 2023 considering Gal Gadots busy schedule. Before moving to the above mentioned two movies, she has Disneys Snow White. One thing regarding Patty, while sources say Jenkins is expected to focus on development of WW3 now that she isnt directing this, shooting is not expected to start till 2023 on WW3 at earliest given Gadots busy shooting schedule in 2022 that includes SNOW WHITE, Kroll wrote.

So the wait is just extended. Stay tuned to Koimoi for more information about the same.

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RUSSIA will attack Ukraine unless Nato gives a cast-iron guarantee it will never let Kiev join the US-led alliance, a senior Putin aide warned.

The threat from a top Kremlin adviser is the starkest so far and stoked fresh fears an invasion could drag Western allies into World War Three.

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It comes after Russia massed 100,000 of troops on the border and Ukraine spy chiefs said they believe a full-scale invasion is planned in the New Year.

And today Ukraine confirmed it fired US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles at Russia-backed rebels during fresh skirmishes in the breakaway Donbas region.

Amid heightened tensions, Putin ally Fyodor Lukyanov warned of a new conflict if Nato expanded further east in an article published last night.

Mr Lukyanov - chairman of the Russian Foreign Affairs Council, which advises the Kremlin - also made it clear that Moscow would be seeking more than verbal reassurances from Nato.

He wrote: This recent round of escalation in Eastern Europe showed that the old principles of security on the continent are no longer working.

Russia will have to change the system and draw new red lines'.

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He made pointed reference to a post-WW2 deal between the Soviet Union and Finland, under which Moscow recognised Finlands independence in return for its neutrality in the Cold War.

Chillingly, Mr Lukyanov added that the gambit that led to the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia - when Moscow invaded after claiming to have been provoked - could well be replicated in Ukraine.

Yesterday Moscow accused the US of secretly staging a mock nuclear attack 12 miles from the border "putting Russian forces on alert".

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu also said American strategic bombers had carried out 30 flights close toRussiathis month in a significant escalation.

Ukrainian intelligence chiefs have warned Russia is planning to invade on ten fronts in January.

Brigadier General Budanov saidthe invasionwould begin with air strikes and shelling following by an attack from the air involving up to 3,500 paratroopers and special forces, reportsThe Military Times.

It would then be followed by a mass assault across the border, amphibious landings in Odessa and Mariupol, and a smaller invasion from neighbouring Belarus.

Russia has always denied any aggressive intentions towards its neighbour - branding the latest reports as "hysteria".

President Putin described the troop build-up as a deterrent against a renewed Ukrainian government offensive.

Several ceasefire breaches have been reported in the eastern areas of the country held by Moscow-backed separatists.

Kiev confirmed for the first time it has deployed the US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles in the ongoing conflict.

General Budanov claimed they have also been used against Russian forces, who are suspected of making incursions across the border in support of the rebels.

He said the rockets have a "significant psychological deterrent value making Russians think twice about attacking."

Nato said it is prepared to help its allies.

Brigadier General Simon Doran, of the US Marine Corps, said of a potential Russian invasion: We exist to be ready at all times.

He told The Daily Telegraph: Hopefully, were not only deterring potential adversaries, were also reassuring all of our partners and allies that if called upon, we will be here.

We are absolutely ready to combat any aggression from anybody globally.

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World War 3 is an online multiplayer tactical FPS set in a modern, global conflict. An exciting WW3 themed game set in the near future. The game is developed by The Farm 51 and published by My.Games, which has recently announced Closed Beta Test for the same. Smooth but ravaging combat, exciting weapons and gadgets, and most importantly, compelling tactics are needed to overcome any pesky scenarios in this all-out warfare experience.

World War 3 Closed Beta Starts on November 25 at 13.00 UTC / 14.00 CET / 05:00 PST, while its preload option should become active later today, November 24.

The Closed Beta Test is just around the corner, and as a celebration of the upcoming event, the developer has posted a new trailer showcasing WW3s excellence. You can find the trailer below:

World War 3 is an online multiplayer tactical FPS set against the backdrop of a modern global conflict. Team up to outgun and outflank the enemy in thrilling tactical skirmishes waged across real-world locations like Warsaw, Berlin, and Moscow. Customize your perfect loadout from a huge weapons arsenal, then deploy vehicles, gadgets, and drones, and call in strikes to seize the advantage.

Some of the games features:

TEAM-BASED ONLINE MULTIPLAYER ACTION

Hit the battlefield with up to 40 players in two core game modes. Unleash your arsenal in Tactical Ops, where two teams of 20 must attack or defend capture points in fast-paced skirmishes. Team Deathmatch is a classic FPS mode thats an action-packed, 10 versus 10 race to victorywork together to plan tactical strikes and full-scale assaults to score the highest kill count!

ALL-OUT WARFARE

Use every tool at your disposal to win the fight. Get your boots on the ground as an infantry soldier, drive around in tanks and vehicles, utilize drones to survey the battlefield, and call in tactical strikes for maximum damage.

PLAY YOUR WAY

A huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, drones, artillery, and airstrikes are at your disposal. Create your perfect loadout, and choose from hundreds of combinations of unique weapon components and cosmetic customizations to make it personal. Your vehicles, tactical gear, and uniforms are all fully customizable, so you can really make your mark on the battlefield.

WORLD AT WAR

Fight under the flag of real-world countries as you battle through stunning maps, featuring realistic geography and incredible levels of detail. Take the fight from the streets of Warsaw, Berlin, Moscow, and Polyarny, to the outskirts of Smolensk and beyond.

PLAYABLE REALISM

Every shot counts. Discover realistic gameplay features that enhance immersion without impacting combat, including an advanced ballistics system, full-body awareness, vehicle physics, and extensive customization.

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MOSCOW has accused the US of secretly staging a mock nuclear attack on TEN bomber planes 20km from their border "putting Russian forces on alert."

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the Kremlin had noticed a significant increase in activity by American strategic bombers, which he said had carried out 30 flights close to Russia this month.

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He claims that is 2.5 times more than the same period last year.

Shoigu complained of what he said was a simulated US nuclear strike against Russia earlier this month.

He said: "The defence minister underlined that during the US military exercises 'Global Thunder', 10 American strategic bombers rehearsed launching nuclear weapons against Russia from the western and eastern directions.

"The minimum proximity to our state border was 20km."

Shoigu said Russian air defence units had spotted and tracked the US strategic bombers and taken unspecified measures to avoid any incidents.

His ministrys TV channel Zvezda interpreted his comments as him saying: NATO activity dictates the need to maintain nuclear forces on combat readiness.

The Pentagon has hit back insisting its drills were announced publicly at the time and adhered to international protocols.

This comes at a time of high tension with Washington over Ukraine, with US officials voicing concerns about a possible Russian attack on its southern neighbour - a suggestion Russia has denied.

Moscow has in turn accused the United States, NATO and Ukraine of provocative behaviour, pointing to US arms supplies to Ukraine, Kiev's use of Turkish drones against Russian-backed separatists and NATO exercises close to its borders.

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Pentagon spokesperson Anton Semelroth said: "These missions were announced publicly at the time, and closely planned with Strategic Command, European Command, allies and partners to ensure maximum training and integration opportunities as well as compliance with all national and international requirements and protocols."

Top Russian and US military officers, Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, spoke by telephone but neither side disclosed the contents of the conversation.

Global Thunder, which this year put US nuclear-capable B-52 bombers through their paces, is the US Strategic Command's annual nuclear and command exercise designed to test and demonstrate the readiness of America's nuclear capabilities.

President Vladimir Putin referenced the apparent episode last week, complaining of Western strategic bombers carrying "very serious weapons" close to Russia.

He said the West was taking Moscow's warnings not to cross its "red lines" too lightly.

Shoigu made the comments in a video conference with Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe. He said that US bomber flights close to Russia's eastern borders were also a threat to China.

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"Against this backdrop, Russo-Chinese coordination is becoming a stabilising factor in world affairs," said Shoigu.

Russia and China agreed at their meeting to step up cooperation between their armed forces when it came to strategic military exercises and joint patrols, the defence ministry said.

Earlier this month, Russia warned relations with the West are almost at boiling point as tensions mount over migrants at the Poland-Belarus border.

With Nato and Russian forces playing cat and mouse games, Putin has said he would simply destroy any country that encroached on his countrys territory.

Recent days have seen US officials warnRussiamay beplotting an imminent invasionofUkraine, with the Kremlin massing100,000 troops on their border.

And Putin's regime has been accused of stoking the unfolding migrant crisis between Belarus and Poland andeven sent their own nuclear bombers into the area.

Belarus - dubbed Europe's last dictatorship - has been accused of "weaponising" migration against the EU sparking atense stand-off along their border with Polandwith troops on both sides.

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Lionel Blair - winning smile

I may have discovered why only 14 per cent of the 691 million lateral-flow tests issued to test and trace Covid 19 have been forwarded to the NHS.

I did my first Covid-19 test a few days ago. It proved negative but as a good citizen, I did as the authorities ask and went online to register my result, encouraged by the notes with the test which tell you you'll need the identifying number on the plastic test strip. What the notes don't tell you is that in order to register, you'll also need your NHS number (the one you can never remember) and your mobile-phone number (ditto).

If you stick with it, hunt those numbers down and report the result, 24 hours later you will be rewarded with an email and text both telling you: Your coronavirus lateral flow test is negative. Which is precisely what you told them 24 hours earlier. You begin to understand why so few people report their results.

Test and trace is described as the flagship of the NHS Covid-19 programme. The lesson of history is that flagships get sunk.

Incidentally, isn't it scary how far you can shove the test straw up your nose? I assumed the mild resistance I encountered was my skull.

I wrote some time ago about the well-recruited Territorial Army after the Second World War. Having been conscripted to fight in that catastrophe, why would so many ex-squaddies volunteer for the TA? An old sweat writes to explain. If you chose the right TA unit and gained a trade (in his case as an ambulance driver), you might get a cushy number in the Third World War. I joined the TA, he explains, because if there was another war, I didn't want to go back in the infantry. All is clear.

Way back in ye olden days I knew a chorus girl who became one of the Lionel Blair Dancers. As a result I encountered Blair, who has died at 92, a couple of times. He was fun and his dancers clearly adored him. At one of his shows I attended, some heckling drunk in the front row made a homophobic remark. Blair who was a straight family man, told him with a winning smile: Don't bandy words with me, I'll crucify you. The heckling stopped.

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TAIWANS president has admitted for the first time that US troops have been on the island secretly training its military.

Tsai Ing-wen was speaking as China said American planes and ships carried out 2,000 spying missions against Beijing, amid rising fears of war between the two nuclear powers.

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Authoritarian China considers Taiwan part of its territory and has vowed to reunify the island state with the mainland, by force if necessary.

The secret presence of the US has raised eyebrows as Washington does not recognise the island as an independent nation.

America does not have a formal defence pact with the island and is deliberately ambiguous about what it would do in the event of a Chinese invasion although its generally thought the US would come to its defence.

Asked in an interview with CNN how many US troops were in Taiwan, Tsai replied "not as many as people thought".

"We have a wide range of cooperation with the US aiming at increasing our defence capability," she added.

When asked if she was confident that the United States would help defend Taiwan if necessary against China, Tsai replied: "I do have faith."

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China meanwhile has said US warships and planes carried out 2,000 close spying operations aimed at its forces this year.

The targets include Chinese controlled islands and reefs in the South China Sea, as well as the coastal area of the Chinese mainland, the South China Morning Post reports

The details were revealed by Cao Yanzhong, a researcher with the People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Science at a recent conference.

He said the spying missions raised the prospect of war.

"The high frequency of such close reconnaissance endangers China's sovereign security and heightens regional tensions, which will inevitably trigger firm opposition from China and undoubtedly increase the risk of gunfire," he said.

US reconnaissance planes, ships and submarines have also been carrying out more operations to monitor Chinese military air and naval bases on the islands and near the coast.

China has also accused the US of disguising warplanes as civilian aircraft for close-shore reconnaissance missions.

Recent weeks have seen Beijing send record numbers of warplanes in to fly close to Taiwan in what are seen as invasion rehearsals as it threatens to strike any time.

In response, Tsai has said the island will never bow to Chinese pressure and its leaders say it is preparing for war.

Taiwans disputed status stems from the Chinese civil war, which was fought between 1946 and 1949.

Former Chinese mainland president Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters fled to the island in 1949 following the Chinese Communist Party victory.

The island of 25 million people has since developed its own democratic identity and party of current President Tsai supports moves towards full independence which Beijing says will trigger war.

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US secretly training Taiwan troops and conducted 2,000 spy missions in China sparking WW3 fears... - The US Sun

The 20th-century was certainly a bloody one. Over the course of two world wars, tens of millions of people were killed, countless economies collapsed, and some of the world's strongest empireswere brought to their knees.

These wars shocked the world so much so that most of the rest of the century was spent attempting to prevent such a thing from ever happening again. But have such provisions been enough to stop a third world war? If not, what could cause World War III? Let's explore.

War is, sadly, part and parcel of human history. As far as we can tell, humans have been at it for as long as our species has existed on this planet and animals were in conflict before us. Some of the earliest evidence of warfare was unearthed in Kenya, where anthropologists uncovered remains of people who had died violently sometimes between 9,500 and 10,500 years ago - the earliest scientifically-dated evidence of organized human violence.

War could be a consequence of our biology, or a completely human construct initiated and maintained by organized societies. Like most things in life, the true underlying causes are likely a combination of the two schools of thought.

The triggers for war are pretty diverse but generally center around some common themes like the need for resources, conflicting ideas, expansion of territory, revenge for perceived wrongs, frustration with the status quo (i.e. revolution). The two major world wars of the 20th-century include some aspects of all of these, with the complication that WW1 was largely seen as an unsatisfactory end to the burning pressures between interested parties.This, according to some, laid the ground for WW2, and, to a certain extent, continued into the Cold War and beyond.

Today, the world is a different place, at least on the surface, compared to the 1940s. However, people, and by extension nations, can have a very long memory.And we've had some very close calls since the end of the Second World War like The Korean War,The Berlin Crisis of 1961,The Cuban Missle Crisis of 1962, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, to name but a few.

And fears of a new world war are growing. According to some recent studies, nearly half of all millennials believe they will see the world plunging into a world war within their lifetimes.

While we cannot be precisely clear what might trigger WW3, there are some pressure points around the world that some think could kick things off.

First popularized by the American political scientist Graham T. Allison, many believe that another massive global conflict may happen in only a matter of time through a phenomenon called the "Thucydides Trap."

The premise of it is that throughout human history, there is a tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power for regional or international hegemony. Today, that would apply to the growing power and influence of the People's Republic of China and the decline of the power of the United States.

The term was coined in reference to the ancient Athenian historian and military general called, funnily enough,Thucydides. In his view, at the time of his writing, he suggested that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta was inevitable because of Sparta's growing anxiety over the growth in Athenian Power leading up to the conflict.

In Allison's view, of the 16, or so, times that a similar scenario has arisen over the last 500 years, the outcome has been an outright war in 12 cases. In the other four cases, he notes, was avoided through either some imaginative statecraft or pure chance.

For example, one of the case studies that did not end in war was between the rising United States and the British Empire at the turn of the 20th-century. The United States would ultimately surpass and replace the British as a dominant global power but as an ally of Britain, not an enemy.

While this theory, of course, has its critics, it is a compelling argument and one that may predict all-out war erupt as China's economic and military power continues to rival that of the United States.

Taiwan is something of unfinished business for the Chinese Communist Party. After the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s, remnants of the defeated Kuomintang(KMT) controlledRepublic of China (ROC) took refuge on the island, where they maintain a form of self-determination separate from the mainland.

The People's Republic of China (PRC), to this day, considers Taiwan as part of China and does not recognize the legitimacy of the ROC. If China decides to invade the island, this could, some fear, trigger a chain of events that could escalate very quickly.

The PRC has been taking particularly belligerent actions recently, including violating Taiwanese airspace, which some analysts think could be a sign of things to come very soon.Of course, other parts of the world could also equally be the kindling for a new world war Iran and North Korea being key areas to keep an eye on.

The world's population is around eight billion today. This is set to grow to at least almost 10 billion by 2050 if current trends are maintained.That's two billion more mouths to feed and water. While some are confident technological improvements and management strategies can handle it, others are concerned that this might reach a tipping point in which demand outstrips supply.

If the pessimists are right, water and food shortages will likely not be taken lightly by much of the world's population. After all, food scarcity was one of the major triggers for the French Revolution.

Many compounding issues, from environmental issues, water-hungry industries, and poor resource management from governments, may create a perfect storm where food and water supplies will not be able to keep up with the rising population to come.Not to mention the potential impact climate change could have on extreme weather events and droughts.

If this prediction is correct, then we may be entering a period of increased civil unrest, revolutions, and, perhaps, state-on-state struggles for control of basic commodities. It is not difficult to see how this could trigger a global war the likes of which we've never seen.

But, experts are more confident that intra-border conflicts will be more likely. If that is any encouragement to you?However, this doesn't need to be the case. Technology could rise to the challenge as it often has in the past. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.

Not a day goes by that some financial expert appears on our screens, or in the press, about an impending economic collapse "worse than ever before." This is nothing new, and such predictions are usually overplayed or unfounded.

However, they have happened before, and do occur in ominous, almost predictable cycles roughly every decade or so. But when they do happen, instability tends to follow in its wake.

While never usually the primary cause of global conflicts, events like depressions create the kind of social unrest that can lay the foundations for war. Around the world, many governments have turned on the printing presses to try to spend their way out of the crisis which will have serious consequences in the near future.

How this manifests itself in the global economy is yet to be seen, but it's not looking good so far.

Our modern electronic world would not be possible without some key resources critical for making many of the electronic devices we use every day. From smartphones to your internet router, and everything in between, they all need basic electronic components to actually work.

Pretty much all electronics require a good deal of mineralraw materials and chemicals that, if supply were to dry up, would pretty much bottleneck electronic production. Typical common key resources include materials like copper, lithium, tin, silver, gold, nickel, and aluminum.

The pressure on these resources is also being accelerated with the global push to decarbonize and switch to renewable technologies and electrically power vehicles too.

Some of these key resources, like lithium, for example, are not universally abundant or available, and maintaining access to them has become something of a national security issue for many nations. One particular place that has some of these materials in abundance isAfghanistan.

The long-overdue and sadly controversial, withdrawal of the U.S. and international forces has put some serious doubt on the future control of these materials. If access to these materials is hampered artificially in any way, this could cause some very serious tensions around the world.

Perhaps enough to trigger a devastating global war?

Throughout most of human history, mass migration has been the result of, not the cause of conflict the Hunnicinvasions of the 5th-century being a prime example.

But some have warned that the kind of mass migration we have seen over the last decade or so could set the scene for conflict in the not too distant future. Some even believe we are only just entering an era called the "migration wars."

The reasons for these large-scale migrations vary from civil wars to environmental disasters or economic desperation. And these issues are likely only going to get worse as populations rise.

In recent times, the ongoing war in Syria has resulted in tens of millions of refugees seeking safety in neighboring countries and in the West. Often taking incredibly perilous journies over land and sea to do so. But, it's not just the West being affected.

Since 2017, around half a million Rohingya people have fled persecution in Myanmar to seek relative safety in neighboring states, notably Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Mass migration is also becoming an issue for Western Africa.

The problem is also being accelerated by technology as access to information of the quality of life, or perceived quality of life, in other parts of the world, are now readily accessible.

Such large influxes of new people cause understandable trepidation and very real pressures on the infrastructure and economy of native populations.This can lead host nations to intervene overseas in an attempt to curb the flow of refugees. While this can be done peacefully, it is all too often violent.

Such interventions run the risk of sparking something much more serious. Not to mention making the problem worse.

We can never know if another world war is on the cards or not in the near future, but rest assured the world has gone through many trials and tribulations in the past. Only twice (arguably once with a two-decade ceasefire) has this led to an all-out war.

Some of the potential causes highlighted above can be resolved peacefully. After all, Einstein is credited as once poignantly saying "Ido not know with what weaponsWorld WarIII will be fought, butWorld WarIVwill be fought with sticksand stones."

Food for thought.

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World War 3 tensions continue to rise as China threatens Taiwan with "doomsday" and reportedly has soldiers on "high alert".

A week after China vowed to "fight to the death" for control over Taiwan, its state-run newspaper has added that Beijing's military is "ready to fight any time".

China trying to "reunify" with Taiwan could spark a third world war if the West rallies together to defend the island 112 miles from China's coast.

Taiwan broke away from the Communist state for independence in 1949 but now faces an apparently determined President Xi Jinping, who sees reclaiming the island as a huge political victory.

Chinese defence ministry spokesman Tan Kefei told The Global Times that the military is on "high alert" and "ready to fight any time".

America has accused China of destabilising the region with a series of military drills it considers to be a deliberate show of intimidation over Taiwan.

Dozens of warplanes have recorded soaring back and forth over the island's air space as have 'rehearsals of a full scale invasion' been carried out with mass beach landing operations, The Sun reports.

Tan Kefei refuted the allegations yet reiterated that Taiwan belongs to China and everybody else needs to back down and let the 'reunification' happen.

The spokesman told The Global Times that the US is "confusing white with black" and "external interference" would be beaten back.

Tan also warned Washington to "stop any form of official contact and military relations with the island".

Another article published by the Communist Party's media mouthpiece said that Taiwan faces "doomsday", describing the island's relationship with the US as "the last madness".

The Global Times reported: "The hope of a peaceful solution to the Taiwan question is declining sharply."

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It continued: "The mainland has to consider how to safeguard the national sovereignty of China and resolve the Taiwan question once and for all by force."

The piece quoted President Xi condemning Taiwan for resisting China's attempts to take back control of the island.

Xi said: "Those who forget their heritage, betray their motherland, and seek to split the country will come to no good end," and "they will be disdained by the people and condemned by history."

A blacklist of so-called secessionists has been drawn up by China to bring "very small group of extremists and vicious politicians" in Taiwan to justice, The Global Times reports.

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