So for a while I've been pondering a World War Three timeline but the scope of it is beyond my capacities to create.
I was hoping to gauge interest for a cooperative timeline with some broad outlines:
I was hoping to gauge interest for a cooperative timeline with some broad outlines:
- The war starts between 2028 and 2030.
- The war is a result of several conflicts snowballing into each other and becoming one conflict later on.
- The United States President from 2024 to 2026 is Donald John Trump. From 2026 to 2028 it is JD Vance.
- A Democrat wins the 2028 Presidential Election. Undecided on who.
- Russia defeats Ukraine with a conditional surrender in 2025 or 2026 after breaking the last of Ukraine's defenses in the Donbass.
- The West largely abandons Ukraine by 2025.
- Putin dies in 2026 and Russia has a ultranationalist and militarist take charge after a few years of power jockeying.
- Iran has nuclear weapons by 2025.
- Kim Jong Un dies before 2028 and is succeeded by Kim Yo Jong.
- The sides are roughly the stereotypical Eurasian powers of at least China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran vs at least NATO + South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Israel.
- The war is NOT a repeat of World War Two; neither side can force an unconditional surrender on the other.
- NO generalized nuclear exchange.