[ WP ] World War III has started for the most mundane reason you can think of .

Excerpt taken from James K Sullivan's `` History of the World, The Third World War'' 
 
 Editors Note: This title is not to be confused with Anderson Williams' same titled work regarding the mass economic trade wars between Central America and East Africa in the late 2030's 
 
... In hindsight it seems to be a rather silly way to start a war, and change the shape and nature of the world. But in some ways, it was almost inevitable. 
 
 Economic downturns in the early 2000's had caused most of the'developed' world's economic powerhouses ( USA, China, India, England, Russia, etc. ) to lose momentum, or backslide. This was further compounded by the rise of ISIS ( later IS, and later the Caliphate ) and their control over the flow of oil from the middle east. 
 
 Although the discussion ( and later creation ) of a separate land for the native Kurds in the region to act as a buffer, and the eventual stabilization of both Syria and Libya did help to ease tensions in the region ( authors note: these three events will both be covered further in chapter 9 ), the world's economic situation was never truly as golden as it had been less than 20 years prior. 
 
 Examining ways to try to improve the situation, world leaders gathered in secret in Bern in 2014 to try and figure out a way to get their economies back on track. And it was there that they hit upon a most ordinary way to try to bolster their economies: war. 
 
 In the late 1930's the German and American economies were initially aided greatly by the advent of the Second World War, and it was this example which was touted loudest as the primary reason why they needed to start a war, and soon. 
 
 The greatest division came with who would be the primary aggressors, and who would be the `` victims''. Fortunately for them, as they saw it, they had situations which had been fomented for many years: both the conflicts in the Middle East, the unstable political situation in Ukraine, and the constant issues between India and Pakistan. 
 
 All that remained was to light a spark...
