Third Earthen War
2,026 CE
2,030 CE
Second Earthen War
- Algeria-Morocco War
- Invasion of Egypt
- Great Palestinian War
- Fourth Indo-Pakistani war
- Invasion of Iran
- NATO invasion of Russia
- Second Arab Spring
- Battle of Taiwan
Western Bloc
- and others...
Axis of Resistance
- and others...
Global
Very high
Very high
- Nakba
- Darfur genocide
- Indiscriminate bombing of Muslim nations
- Indo-Pakistani nuclear exchange
The Third Earthen War, contemporarily known as World War III, was a conflict that spanned much of Earth from 2,026 to 2,030 CE. It came 81 years after the Second Earthen War, thus seeing the deployment of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), drones, and electronic computers. It was, by then, the second deadliest war in human history, with over 100 million deaths, most of them civilians.
The war pitted two international coalitions against each other: the Western Bloc, made up of global hegemons, and the Axis of Resistance, comprising nations that suffered under Western imperialism or were its main economic and military rivals. The leading members of the West were India, Israel, and the United States (US), while those of the Axis of Resistance were China, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia. As the Third Earthen War raged on, some states changed sides, especially in the Middle East. Kurdistan and a host of Israeli political parties fought both the West and the Axis.
History
Background
Americas
Europe
North Africa
Middle East
The Nakba and Arab-Israeli Relations
For over a millennium, the Middle Eastern region of Palestine was the melting pot of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. At the very end of the 19th century CE, the Zionist movement, aiming to create a Jewish ethnostate, sent European Jews to colonize Palestine. To further their goals, they pitied Palestinian Jews against Palestinian Christians and Muslims, disrupting interfaith harmony in the region. From 1,917 to the late 1,940s CE, they had the British Empire’s support and committed terrorism almost every day, stirring up resistance movements. Though Zionists had to face Palestinian guerrillas as well as nearby Arab armies, in 1,948 CE, they expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Only two disconnected portions of Palestine were not in Zionist hands: the Gaza Strip and West Bank, respectively assigned to Egypt and Jordan. The remainder became Israel that same year. Palestinians who survived the ethnic cleansing, otherwise called the Nakba, either forcibly converted to Judaism or took refuge outside Israel, mainly in the unconquered enclaves.
Decolonization following the Arab-Israeli war of 1,948 CE raised the fighting spirit of the Arab states once more, especially that of Egypt and Syria. In 1,958 CE, they united into the United Arab Republic (UAR) amid the growth of pan-Arabism. In June 1,967 CE, the UAR and its allies fought another war against Israel. Within six days, the Zionist state had destroyed their air forces and reached its greatest territorial extent, occupying the Sinai Peninsula, Palestinian enclaves, and Golan Heights. They attempted another war in October 1,973 CE, which, unlike the previous one, ended in a ceasefire, but changed nothing regarding Israel’s military dominance. The Arab states abandoned pan-Arabism and instead normalized relations with the Zionists, whose state began to receive heavy financial aid from the US shortly thereafter. In turn, they distanced themselves from the Soviet Union and aligned with the West. The oil reserves of Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were used to power the West and enrich the ruling class of these countries, making them unequal and highly repressive.
Humanitarian conditions were extremely poor in the overcrowded camps of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, despite Egypt and Jordan seemingly favoring the plight of Palestinian refugees. Israel’s occupation of the enclaves in 1,967 CE worsened their situation, as it began to colonize their land and surveil their population. Between 1,987 and 1,993 CE, Palestinians launched the First Intifada, a mostly peaceful uprising against Israeli colonialism. It was violently suppressed and saw the Oslo Accords, in which Israel worked with Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian political party Fatah, to create a proxy government over Gaza and the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA). It partitioned the West Bank into Areas A (under full Israeli control), B (under joint Israel-PA control), and C (under full PA control). They were the apex of Zionist apartheid, and although Area C existed, the Zionists frequently subjected it to human rights violations. After the Second Intifada of 2,001 to 2,005 CE, Israel evacuated its Gaza colonies but erected a wall around the West Bank to compensate. In 2,008 CE, the Zionist state blockaded Gaza, limiting the influx of essential products into the enclave.
The Arab Higher Committee, formed in 1,936 CE, was Palestine’s first resistance group. In 1,947 and 1,948 CE, it fought the growing Zionist militias, but failed to stop the Nakba and was disbanded in the latter year. In 1,964 CE, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in Egypt. An alliance of Palestinian political parties, three of them—Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)—joined it within five years of its existence. To direct the world’s attention towards the Palestinian struggle, they often attacked the Zionist state abroad. In 1,975 CE, Israel invaded Lebanon, a major base of PLO operations. While very destructive, the invasion failed to defeat the PLO. During it, two Islamist resistance groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), came to be in Gaza. Following the Oslo Accords, the DFLP, Hamas, PFLP, and PIJ drifted away from Fatah. Hamas took control of Gaza in 2,007 CE and had earned over 40,000 fighters. On October 7th, 2,023 CE, the group, its allies, and Palestinian civilians breached the Gaza border. The resistance also captured various Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials. In response, the Zionists enacted the deadliest phase of the Nakba, reducing much of the Gaza Strip to rubble and killing a million of its residents via bombardments, executions, poisonings, and starvation.
