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Old 11-30-2011, 12:52 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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The 1st World vs. The 2nd & 3rd World
who would win?

2nd & 3rd world together have like 6 times more people than the 1st world.



Northern America (USA, Canada)

Western Europe (Nordic Countries, Ireland, United Kingdom, Benelux
Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Iberia)

South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand


VS.


Latin America

Eastern Europe (Poland, Former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia,
Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Balkans)

Continent Africa

Continent Asia (Except South Korea & Japan)
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Old 11-30-2011, 01:06 AM
 
Location: In the heights
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Why would anyone want to make these divisions and ever have this happen? A true total war with so many countries with nuclear and biological weapons means fairly complete annihilation of all civilization--no one wins. We all simply die.

Minor tangent--how exactly would you have former Soviet satellites side with the hardline ex-Soviet States? That would be crazy.
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Old 11-30-2011, 02:32 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Minor tangent--how exactly would you have former Soviet satellites side with the hardline ex-Soviet States? That would be crazy.
Under pressure from the rest of the 2nd & 3rd world.
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Old 11-30-2011, 03:28 AM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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I would include Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia and perhaps Croatia and Czech Rep. in the "First World" category.

This is all hypothetical of course (because there is no way that countries like Poland, Ukraine or the Baltic states are going to side with Russia in a war) but if such a war would break out today, I think it would be won by the First World. The only real threats from the 2nd/3rd World are China and Russia, and although they are capable of causing severe damage, I don't think they'd be able to stand up against the combined forces of the US, Canada, EU, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
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Old 11-30-2011, 03:54 AM
 
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I guess it all hypothetical to say all this. There's no guarantee about any category being dominated by the other. If all countries start fighting there would be no value of money and then I guess the people who are already adapted to live in rough conditions would win.
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Old 11-30-2011, 03:58 AM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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If you want to go hypothetical, USA alone would make every 3rd world country dissapear within a day.

Although, I'm not sure USA would want to bomb the country to its north
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Old 11-30-2011, 05:04 AM
 
Location: Venice Italy
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You did not give alternative, I would have proposed a search on those who are able to give more love, even eliminating the kind of ranking that you did on the first second and third world...l feel that it smells a lil bit ..........



of course to you ...op
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Old 11-30-2011, 05:48 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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The US, UK, and France could shower the whole world with thousands of nuclear bombs.

But then again, so could China and Russia.

Still, I think Western armies (including South Korea and Japan) are more technologically advanced, more up-to-date weaponry.. and the British SAS are arguably the best trained military service in the world

I think the first world would win for sure.

By the way, I could consider Slovenia and Estonia to be first world, they are classed as developed countries by the UN.

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Old 11-30-2011, 06:27 AM
 
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I guess we have all the drones, nukes etc that can take out masses of people.

They have a younger population already used to tribal warfare with lots of ak-47s


I suppose we can see the likely result in the Middle East. Jews= 1st world, Palestinians= 3rd. The Palestinians will win because they dont have to play by the rules like the Israelis and breed a lot faster.
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Old 11-30-2011, 09:50 AM
 
Location: In the heights
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Mutually assured destruction by nuclear weapons did not cease to exist just because we stopped talking about it. There is no winner--all of civilization is pretty much gone.
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