Are We in World War III, and Just Don’t Know It? The world's mood has shifted, and so has the conversation.
When US President Donald Trump blustered about World War III in a White House exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year, it was easy to dismiss as typical Trumpian posturing.
But as we've watched the globe lurch from one crisis to the next – the ongoing wars in Iran and Ukraine, the escalating tensions between the US and China – that phrase has taken on a new resonance.