The Road to World War Three

[cryingfreeman]

why would the tptb want ww3 there would be fuck all left to lord over

You're assuming the Cold War doctrine of MAD remains valid. It doesn't though. Modern warheads are of the kilotons range, not Cold War megatons.

What TPTB want is a revolution in political thinking worldwide - at the level of the general public. The best way to do this is a nuclear war because nothing, not even a cataclysmic pandemic, has the dramatic political capital of mushroom clouds towering above a nation's cities.