don if Putin started a conquest across Europe trying to put the Soviet Union back together by military force (Which he has stated he wants to do) that wouldn't turn into a World War?

There are some factions (of a sort) of modern historians, who would like to rename the World Wars we've had, with some saying that the worldwide conflict of Empires, centered around France and Great Britain in the 18th Century (of which our little rebellion in 1776 was a small backwater conflict), should be called World War 1, with the Napoleonic portion being lumped in with all that. That would make the one that started in 1914, World War 2. And some see the rise of Naziism and the attacks of Japan, as extensions of that war, rather than being part of an all new conflict, so that what we call WW2, would become the "post-Armistice continuation" of the 1914 war.

Other conflicts have ALWAYS been occurring, with how they are named, often having more to do with local politics than anything else.

Plenty of people died during that thing we called the Cold War. Most were hidden from both sides, again for political reasons. Viet Nam was called A Police Action by some, more because they wanted to pretend we weren't really at war, than anything else.

you should stay away from the liberal websites, don... that not what Russia is doing at all...

so,what is the KGB-Colonel doing then?

are we on the verge of another world war?

This is one of those "it depends on what you mean" questions.

For the most part, I'd say no, in the sense that there's no reason to think that any of the larger countries are about to march their infantries into some one else's country.

But you can also look at the facts that China seems to be looking to expand it's military presence in the Pacific, and push back against the long standing US military presence there. And Russia under Putin certainly seems eager to overrun Ukraine and try to reestablish the old Russian Empire.

One thing that makes it extra hard to be sure of anything, is that there are a lot of heavy duty political interests here in the US, for whom the ability to scare Americans into THINKING we are about to enter a huge war, pays tremendous dividends in power and money. And of course, various "news" media outlets benefit every time we all get upset at the same time.

It's already started. We lost our chance to end it when the US left Iraq. Now it will spread like the disease it is farther than WWII. The radical branch of Islam is on one side and the rest of the world is on the other.

They start it we'll end it.

Actually could see Putin pulling a Hitler and trying to retake all of the countries formerly in the USSR and more honestly.

Plenty more Ethnic Russians in the Baltics,Finland and other Independent Sovereign Countries!

World wars are described by Wikipedia as "a war involving many or most of the world's most powerful and populous countries. World wars span multiple countries on multiple continents, with battles fought in multiple theatres."

If those same parameters used to categorize past conflicts as "world wars" were used to describe conflicts today WW3 may have started years ago, especially if the internet were to be considered a "theater" in which attacks are conducted.

playing nice, making the world a better place...

You forgot trying to remain calm in the face of all the saber rattling and provocation from that idiot in the White House and his little puppets in England and France.

you're preaching to the choir... the US does more damage to other nations than Russia or China combined...

And how does this relate to WWIII? Are they secret infiltrators?

Think,Al,think!
Was basically the start of the last one!
Hitler and Stalin played the Ethnic Game!
Sudetenland,Poland,Danzig,eastern Poland,Karelia,Baltics,you name it!

That would be your version not mine!!! I would suggest you think as your premises are in error.

There are many factors you choose to ignore for the convenience of explanations offered by the supposed victors at the expense of some 72.5 million that died.

Really had nothing to do with Hitler and Stalin playing any ethnic game, the real game was much more sinister than that.

First, Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information for any declaration. Just a collection of thoughts of many on the internet, does operate nicely as a source of details that can be used to start research.

But as to the internet as a "theater of war", that is an interesting concept but how can one justify it? While it can be used as a nuisance, I can't see it as an act of war. Care to clarify?

It's already started. We lost our chance to end it when the US left Iraq. Now it will spread like the disease it is farther than WWII. The radical branch of Islam is on one side and the rest of the world is on the other.

I think the war we all should brace up for is Islamic fundamentalism on a global scale.
Take a look at the terror groups that had emerged in recent years:
Boko haram in the Northern Nigeria/Western African Axis,Alshabab in the hone of Africa,Alqueda and the deadliest of all now ISIS.
Common interest could unite these groups and all other groups. Book Haram already pledged allegiance to ISIS.
Other groups could still emerge in the future.
This might be the war.