Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025
Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.
Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an “unprecedented mass deployment” to Europe.
Yeah, like which of the recent events will be in future textbooks as the trigger for WWIII, and how will it all lead back to WWI (like WWII is basically a direct consequence of conditions of pre-WWI and major events related to the war & post-war treaties - WWIII in this config is a consequence of WWI/WWII & the forced hegemony/colonialism of USA that followed).
WW2 happened like 25 years after WW1.
It’s already been over 80 years since the start of WW2, so I’m not sure you can really assume that they’ll be that related.
So what caused WWII?
I assume your answer is ‘one man’?
In the same way “terrorist groups” arent created by the dominant force exerting mass injustice?
There’s no singular cause of WW2. However, in retrospect, many people would say when Germany invaded Poland.
That said, USSR and Finland were already fighting at that point, as well as Japan and China. It’s not a clear line.
Why would you assume that my answer would be “one man”? It was an incredibly complex conflict that was really a collection of smaller regional conflicts with various allies between them.
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Because basically all of those reasons are the same as WWI but amplified by the restrictions (manufactured economic crisis) posed upon Germany at the end of WWI.
That is why I said it can be viewed as the same war.
(Imho - anyways it’s literally just semantics, perhaps propaganda of the victors a bit.)
Much like (the recent-ish) Russia in Ukraine - it’s usually not viewed as two separate wars, one in 2014 & the other in 2022. Bcs it’s the same thing, it was oblivious that it isn’t over & both Russia & NATO/Ukraine have all been actively preparing each year.
Yeah, Japan in China started basically in 31 (13 years after official end of WWI, a much more European thing), whereas Germany’s first foreign move was the military invasion of Austria in 38.