Will there be a third world war and who would win? The latest news of the Third World War as tensions between Russia and the United States over Syria persist

The world is on high alert as tensions between Russia and the United States over Syria are growing stronger.

If you add North Korea's nuclear ambitions into the mix, a total war could be envisaged – but who would win if the Third World War broke out? We explore the options.

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Will there be a third world war?

While the world is under fire from terrorist attacks, escalating hostility between Russia and the United States and repeated force demonstrations of the North Korean regime, a total war may soon be more likely than ever.

Here is what has happened so far:

2018

• November 25 Russia captured three ships of the Ukrainian Navy and 23 crew members sailing off the coast of Crimea.
• June 7th: Vladimir Putin said that the Third World War would lead to the "end of civilization". He said the United States should stop imposing its own rules on other countries and avoid disrupting the strategic nuclear balance in order to avoid that.
• May 24: Donald Trump has canceled a summit with Kim Jong-un, claiming that the North Korean leader had displayed "huge anger and open hostility". This comes after one of Kim's ministers, called Vice President Mike Pence, "ignorant and stupid" for comparing the state to Libya.
• April 21th: North Korea has announced that it is suspending long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site a day before Kim meets his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, welcomes this news, saying it was a sign of "progress for all".
• April 16: Kim Jong-un is worried that Britain moving US Navy ships near North Korean waters is "an act of war."
• April 15th: Boris Johnson defends "the defense of civilized values" with the bombing raids of Syria.
• April 14th: Donald Trump announces that a coalition of US, British and French forces has launched a coordinated air attack. The Ministry of Defense believes that the mission is a success. Theresa May said that there was "no alternative" to the military force. Russia warns that there will be "consequences" after the raids.
• April 12th: The Cabinet supported the British intervention in Syria "to discourage the subsequent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime".
• April 11: The defense chiefs in Russia said they would react "immediately" if their military units in Syria were hit by US air strikes.
• April 11: The Russian ambassador to Lebanon said the US missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launch sites targeted.
• April 7th: An alleged attack of neurotoxic agents in Duma, Syria, is causing 70 deaths and urging Donald Trump to refer to Bashar al-Assad as an "animal" and a "butcher".
• March 14th: Russia said there would be retaliation if the UK introduced new measures and a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Britain should not try to threaten Moscow, highlighting Putin's recent speech in which he presented a range of new nuclear weapons. Trump said the US sides with the United Kingdom.
• March 13th: After the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Prime Minister Theresa May has threatened to carry out various reprisals against Russia.

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2017

• December 26th: After a new round of sanctions, it was announced that Kim was planning to launch a satellite that would mask another nuclear missile test.
• November 28th: Kim Jong-un proudly declared that North Korea was a nuclear state after successfully launching a more powerful ICBM, the Hwasong-15. The rocket flew about 50 minutes and traveled a little more than 600 km before descending into the Sea of ​​Japan.
• October 31st: US and Russian nuclear bombers are flying close to North Korea, while reports in Japan indicate that a nuclear facility under Kim's regime has collapsed with 200 people in the interior.
• October 23: Trump has put nuclear bombers on alert 24 hours a day for the first time since the end of the cold war.
• 21st of October: US supersonic B-1B strategic bombers flew over South Korea as part of an air show inviting Kim to warn the Korean peninsula of the "eve of the explosion"
• October 7th: Trump threatens North Korea in a terrifying way, insisting that "only one element will work" in the case of a rogue state.
• October 3: North Korea has threatened "suicidal" Japan with "nuclear clouds" on hearing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's appeal to the world to heighten pressure on this rogue state.
• October 1st: Trump said that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson "was wasting his time" trying to negotiate with "Little Rocket Man" Kim Jong-un.
• September 26th: North Korea has moved fighters to the coast to intercept US bombers.
• September 25th: North Korea threatened to attack US warplanes and accused Donald Trump of having declared war.
• September 15th: North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Japan and the Pacific, in response to new UN sanctions with its longest missile flight in its history.
• 10/11 September: Two intercontinental ballistic missiles Hwasong-14 were tested with a range of more than 6,210 miles.
• September 6th: North Korea has promised to "redouble" its nuclear arsenal in response to the threat of sanctions and warned the US to face "catastrophic consequences."
• September 4th: US Defense Secretary James Mattis warned of a "massive military response" to any threat from North Korea against the United States or its allies.
• September 3rd: The West wakes up to the news North Korea blew up a nuclear device during a test. The explosion triggered an artificial earthquake six times larger than any previous test.
• August 31: The United States reacted to Kim Jing-a's latest missile attack with a terrifying show of force, dropping huge bombs near the North Korean border.
• August 29th: Officials confirmed the launch of the North missile. The "unidentified projectile" swept over the country before breaking, according to the South Korean army.
• August 28th: North Korea is reported to have fired a missile towards northern Japan. Residents were called to live immediately underground.
• August 15th: North Korea appeared to retreat from an imminent attack saying Kim Jong-un would observe "stupid and stupid Yankee behavior" before deciding whether to shoot Guam.
• August 12th: New satellite images of North Korean bases seem to indicate that the unstable state is in the process of reshaping its sub-fleet of missiles.
• August 11th: The Sun revealed that Britain would play no role in a military strike against the communist state as part of a move described as "weak and misjudged" by the ex-commander of the United States. British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp.
• August 10th: North Korean state media has announced plans to launch four rockets into the US territory of Guam.
• August 10th: Trump said that North Korea "would do better to get in shape", otherwise they will be in trouble as "few nations have ever been". He also suggested that he might not have been hard enough with his previous comments on the rogue state.
• August 8th: Trump warned that North Korea was facing "fire and fury" if it threatened the United States – as revealed by intelligence documents, Kim Jong-un fabricated nuclear mini-weapons to attach to his new rockets
• July 31: It has been reported that Donald Trump was ready to order a military attack on a North Korean nuclear facility hidden under a mountain range.
• July the 5th: North Korea has tested a ballistic missile that, according to analysts, has a range of 6,700 kilometers and allows Alaska to be within reach. Pyongyang subsequently said that it was a "historical" test of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile. Trump responded with a tweet saying; "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?"
• June 13th: North Korea threatened to destroy Trump's hometown of New York after he made fun of the missile program.
• May 5th: Pyongyang announced that it would request the extradition of anyone involved in what, according to it, was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung-a with a biochemical poison
• May 11: The Hermit State has declared that it has the right to "pitilessly punish" any American citizen after arresting a fourth American in early May.
• May 2nd: Kim Jong-un warned that it would be a "child's game" to launch nuclear weapons in Japan – warning that those who tried to fight back and that their supporters would not be safe
• April 28th: North Korea launched a devastating attack on the US Capitol to unleash World War III in a terrifying propaganda film.
• April 19: Vice President Mike Pence warned Kim Jong-a that the United States would "defeat any attack" while he was addressing soldiers aboard a huge aircraft carrier.
• April 14th: At parades marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of state founder Kim Il-sung, a devastating arsenal was presented, including a KN-08 rocket, believed to be able to fly more than 7,000 miles – within range from Los Angeles, New York and Washington. DC But the experts have since wondered if the weapons were genuine.
• April 9th: An American strike force was sent west of the Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula.
• August 17: Pacific business expert warns region is "ticking bomb" with Korea, South China Sea and Taiwan

Who would win the war?

It is impossible to say who would win a conflict.

Donald Trump said his first term as president was to renovate and modernize the US nuclear arsenal, which he now calls "much more powerful and powerful than ever".

North Korea has been relentless in its nuclear tests and it is now believed that this rogue state has missiles capable of striking US territories.

The United States is the only country to own fifth-generation fighter jets – 187 F-22 jets, plus the F-35 that has not yet rolled out of the test phase.

However, Russia is developing a new stealth fighter nicknamed The Ghost and China is preparing four.

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What did Trump and his administration say about North Korea?

Donald Trump wrote a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-a saying that the historic meeting "will not take place".

He referred to "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea, in which she stated that her country was just as ready to meet in a nuclear confrontation as it was in negotiating table.

Trump replied, "You are talking about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so gigantic that I pray to God that they are never used."

But on May 1, after visiting the White House of a top North Korean official, Trump said the meeting would take place.

It was postponed until June 12 after a letter from Kim Jong-un was sent to the president.

What happened in Syria?

Aid workers reported that dozens of people had been killed with poison gas – including young children – as a result of the rebel-held city attack.

According to official sources, at least 70 people died in the atrocity last Saturday, April 7, 2018, in the besieged city of Duma.

Patients showed signs of "respiratory distress, central cyanosis, excessive foaming of the mouth, burning of the cornea and chlorine odor emission," they said.

The statement added that civil defense volunteers found 42 victims among their victims "with similar clinical symptoms: excessive foaming of the mouth, cyanosis and burns of the cornea".

Heartbreaking images show victims with yellowed skin, wrinkled on the ground and foamy in the mouth.

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And on April 12, it was revealed that the victims of the attack had been tested positive for chemicals including chlorine and a neurotoxic substance.

US officials who obtained blood and urine samples from victims would have been "confident" in the information, but not 100%, MSNBC reported.

Duma is the last city of Ghouta-East owned by the opposition, formerly the main rebel stronghold outside Damascus, but now ravaged by a seven-week regime assault.

Since February 18, Syrian and Russian forces have carried out a fierce military attack.

Although no one has yet demonstrated its involvement, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons.

America and its allies would have formed a record of intelligence – including images – that would indicate that the Syrian government was behind the Duma atrocity.

A two hour emergency cabinet meeting of the war in the evening of April 12 encouraged the United Kingdom to join the American strikes against Assad, as a result of the attack.

The prime ministers of the prime minister agreed that it was "vital that the use of chemical weapons is not disputed" at the emergency summit in Downing Street.