User blog comment:Eastward Expansion/What do you think the Future will bring? (Book Review part 1)/@comment-1650675-20100729200533

And as to WWIII, I'm thinking US and Russia(and possibly India) vs China. Think about it. China has an amazing appetite for oil (at the rate of their industrial expansion, they would need to build 3 Three Mile Islands every year!!). Russia has enough oil to supply themselves for quite a while, and the US is actually pretty friendly with Arabia and Kuwait. China, on the other hand, has only Sudan. China, if it has any sense of self-preservation, will need to secure much of the middle east if it wishes to continue as a world power. The US would defend it's interests in the Near East tooth and nail, while Russia is going to want to keep hegemony over Central Asia. China is gonna have to confront one of us in the near future if it wants to survive. I doubt they would win, considering that Russia hates (and fears) China far more than it hates/fears the US, and I really think the EU would help us out, considering they rely on Eastern oil as much as we do. India as well, because them and China are gonna confront each other sooner or later.