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Au contraire, WWIII will absolutely be a continuation of WWI, as basically all of today's geopolitics can be traced to the bungled armistice. Turn on the news. Mid East...N. Korea...Afganistan...Any country in Africa. All of these places were granted sovereignty in the aftermath of the First or Second World War without regard to ethnic or political differences. Convenience ruled the day, and it has come back to haunt us; I'm afraid will continue to do so for some time.
The name of the war is an interesting topic. Obviously, WWI (or First World War) wasn't used at the time that war was being fought; it was called by most people the Great War. In the book Europe's Last Summer, the author makes the case that WWI and II aren't properly even separate wars; WWII was just the conclusion of the Great War, which had gone cold in the 20 years since the Armistice, and he therefore detests the name WWII, since it makes one think that the two can be considered separately. I would consider them both the Great War, but make the distinction of The Kaiser's War and Hitler's war, since it was they who instigated.