The biggest misconception (or misdirection) about the naming of world wars is that they were “world” because they happened to play out worldwide, over the different continents, implying that it’s like all the world was at war.
This is obviously silly, even for the Second World War: most of the world was actually at war not to mention the first world war was actually largely localized to Europe.
But most importantly, this is self-serving: this silly geographical explanation meant to obscure and hide that those wars were, in fact, world wars, a kind of their own wars, because they were the first wars for world domination.
And this is why we all share collective intuition that there must be third world war. Because there is a shared intuitive understanding that those wars were for the world domination, and in that sense, both of them failed, their objectives weren’t complete: the world remained split. And since the principal players are still around, meaning, the West: both “world wars” were in fact the intra Western conflicts for world domination, and and there direct control over the world actually significantly shrunk since 1914, while sense of entitlement to be the masters of the world has only grown since, one doesn’t even need a conscious thought, it is intuitively clear: they will try again.
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