Poll: Which People Think WWIII is Coming Soon?

(Spoiler: Practically everyone, everywhere.)

This is a fascinating, if depressing, survey done by IPSOS and made into a nice, if depressing, graphic by the folks at Visual Capitalist.

There are many observations that can be drawn from this information but my mind goes to all those billions of people paying half their lifetime production in mandatory taxes to be “kept safe” by the nation state they happened to be born in realizing, when asked, they don’t feel safe at all.

And the vast majority of these poor souls will be bystanders in countries that never provoked any trouble. Although, you could tell the 77% of Romanians who are worried about WWIII that maybe their country shouldn’t have joined the most belligerent military alliance on the planet. (NATO) But, of course, decisions like that are socially engineered in ways those voters don’t even realize exist. (If they even get a vote.) That’s also why 64% of people, on average, believe their own country should spend more on the military.

Speaking of social engineering, I’ve spent the last few months in the UK and there are so many talking heads lamenting the UK’s paltry military spending they are now on the TV more than dog food commercials. (The British Army Has Shrunk to its Smallest Size Since the Napoleonic wars. Note: The above linked article makes no mention of how many nuclear warheads and atomic subs the Duke of Wellington had at his disposal to deter Napoleon. But, hey, more money!!)

None of us knows the future and I’m sure the sane among us want no wars anywhere. But I believe that, unfortunately, most people think exactly what they are told to think. And right now they are being told WWIII is more likely than not to be just around the corner.