[dragonwriter]

My fear isn't that we are “sleepwalking into WW3“, but that the world is deep into it, but large parts of it are making it worse, in the long term, by denial of that fact.

OTOH, I also desperately want the denial to turn out to be correct.

[unfocussed_mike]

You're in very good company.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-...

Fiona Hill (without question the smartest person in the room on this topic) says that we're already in WWIII, in the sense of a global spread of conflicts with a handful of competing power centres.