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I'm not so sure if I agree. I think WWIII (if it happens in our lifetimes) might be better seen arising from echoes of the Cold War (Western (US) Capitalism vs. anything else). The conflicts of today seem an odd mix of economic and ideological ones. I think WWI and WWII were wars that were in part motivated by visions of future greatness and progress. WWIII might be more about just plain old fear and misunderstanding, like Vietnam and other Cold War spinoffs.
The way I see that it could go down, is that some regional conflict (Iran, Syria, etc.) starts to spread, everyone becomes worried that the next geopolitical structure might be very different, and they dive in just to see that their interests are represented, -if the UN can't prevent it them from doing so, that is. It's so popular to slam the UN as being ineffective. But I see the tangle created by the UN as a powerful force of global stability. As long as China and Russia are in, everything eventually becomes too complicated.