No great powers have declared war, but they have conducted various acts of war, what else would you call them, against other powers and each other, for several years now, cyber attacks, etc., on each other's home territory IT installations.
No one acknowledges this, but that is war. The fact that someone fails to declare war in advance is nothing new. The attack on Pearl Harbor was covert to the extent possible, back then. That did not make it less an act of war for not having been announced in advance.
When you have great powers attacking and infiltrating each others' security apparata themselves, that is war.
When you have great powers attacking and infiltrating each others' security apparata themselves, that is war.
There are military conflicts now everywhere among various combatants within and across civilizations.
That is a globalizing state of war. That is why I call it WW IV.
Also, I consider the first true world war to have been The Seven Years War. It was largely a civil war of the West, but global in scope, thus world war 1.
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