[puppypower]

I think the most likely cause of WW3 would be the power grab, that is being set up by the manmade global warming/climate change scam, if it is successfully implemented.

Say enough people are frightened enough to support the climate change scam, to where now all the governments of the UN are able to politically justify the commandeering of the energy industries. Unless you can afford to pay the carbon credit extortion tax, which does not change the carbon balance, one is left out in the cold.

In the cold, citizens and industry must look for their alternatives through a crony capitalism based renewable energy exchange, whose products are all over priced, even though supplemented by the governments via higher taxes. The result will unprecedented inflation as people get shafted. Many accept this because it is the lessor to two kill; starve or drown.

The result will be a decline in world wide industries, especially in the first world countries, due to large scale costs and inflation. How do you sell steel if it costs $1/pound in energy. This will lead to large scale layoffs, in all industries. The governments can no longer afford to maintain unemployment benefits, due to the ever widening loss of tax revenue. Printing and borrowing money is not possible since all governments have the same needs. They will all decide the best solution is to raise taxes even higher, to buy some time, only to kill the industries on the margin.

To meet the needs of the social demands for cheaper energy, a fossil fuel energy black market will appear, to compete with the inefficient government crony capitalism. They will charge high prices by modern standards, but it will still be cheaper. The governments will not like the competition and will increase their police crack down, trying to enforce it monopoly policies, with more and more otherwise honest citizens treated like criminals.

Before long there is a world wide outcry, due to the deprivation and injustice, to overthrow the oppressive governments, whose leaders still live like Kings, based on the original carbon credit scam, and the continued  kickbacks from their crony industries. The citizens in America will take the lead, since the right to bear arms will allow them to form militia and fight in mass. People will fight hard when they have little to lose but a lot to gain.

The government soldiers military will gradually begin to empathize with people. The will cause the tide to change leading to the overthrow of the corrupt governments and the all the scam artists leaders shot or hung. Finally, people will understand why the founding fathers of democracy wanted limited government.

This would make a good book.

[Arthur Geddes]

Tyrant/cohort B.S.; the political machinations of the Knights of Columbus or the Freemasons or the Orange Order or whatever other tyrant/cohort structure you care to name.

Always the same manipulative politics.

[wolfekeeper]

The thing that will cause WWIII may already have happened: the 2008 banking crisis.

If you think about it, WWII was caused by the effects of the Great Depression. Hitler got into power by promising to sort out the economic chaos that that caused, and we all know how that turned out.

So, now all it would take is some ideologue to get into power somewhere in the world and start an invasion; the economics is set up for people to be unhappy enough to vote them in.

I'm sticking with my answer, but I'm further specifying the ideologue to be Donald Trump getting into power.

I'm still sticking with my answer, but Trump is looking less likely, an ideologue will need to appear from somewhere else. We're right in the heart of the most dangerous point in time, very right wing people are gaining political power; if BREXIT is the least of the idiocy we have to face, I will be sooo happy.

[IAMREALITY]

Trump.  Next Question.

Ahhh dammit, just realized there was a page 2 lol.  Guess others got to it before me hehehe.

So I guess if I was to give a non political answer (since thankfully, there are at least enough Americans left who aren't dumb enough and self destructive enough to ever vote for that bloviating windbag that it ensures he'll never see the inside of the WH), I'd have to say my first guess would be Water.  Before long, water will be more valuable than diamonds.  To go along with that answer, my next would be overpopulation.  Yes, I think there are those in power who are in the know, who pull the strings of the world and we are but puppets.  I don't think overpopulation will be the trigger, I think overpopulation will be what causes the powers to be to recognize that it is time for another large scale war, this time bigger than any before it, to help cull the population.  In fact, some could say that such controls on smaller scales are already taken place constantly, where plots are put in place intentionally, or left alone intentionally, or fomented intentionally, for sake of population control.

A third guess might be a global scale catastrophe that causes a collapse of global central government overall, leading to voids of power and the needs of the powerhungry to fill it.

[syhprum]

There is some evidence that Hitler had some Jewish ancestry that by Nazi standards would have lead to his classification as non Aryan.
This would explain some odd facts such as how his Chauffer could seduce his first mistress yet survive!

[Robcat]

An accident

[alancalverd]

There is some evidence that Hitler had some Jewish ancestry that by Nazi standards would have lead to his classification as non Aryan.
This would explain some odd facts such as how his Chauffer could seduce his first mistress yet survive!

The rumours are probably mythical but as with Trump, Blair, Bush, and every pedophilic priest, politician pop idol or  other discredited scumbag you can think of, the rules do not apply to the Blessed Leader.

[smart]

A staged conflict featuring unarmed civilians and fabricated riots caused by the stolen US elections could be disguised as a massive coup d'etat by the military.

[smart]

The stolen elections in the US could well spark a global war with Russia: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3833941/Russia-orders-officials-fly-home-relatives-living-abroad-tensions-mount-prospect-global-war.html