WWIII

well, the pieces are falling nicely into place.

in this corner, the good guys: Well established countries looking to protect their interests. fat cats and "sophisticates," depending on who you ask.

In the home corner: Japan, Israel, The U.S., Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and a spattering of tropical island-states with hot chicks. The U.S. after all owns all the countries it's aligned with, except maybe for Japan, but they have an interest in shmushing the missile threat from across the water.
missiles in your soup.

Excessive force?

i don't think so.

And in the visitor's corner, the rogue-states with nothing left to lose. The underrated and unrespected. Russia, China, North Korea, and Palestine, Iran, Egypt. Remember, Iran and China are newly best buds since the chinese need a big oil supplier and conveniently, the US doesn't much like to buy Iranian oil. Of course, it's hard to say what Iran will do in any situation, since they're basically the crazy guy running around with the hand grenade. Same with Russia- they've found a good customer in china, where as the "established" countries are only interested in reducing oil consumption.

Of course then there's india, which could be a big swing state for either side. Unfortunately, they're only interested in boosting their own economic status and could probably do just fine by themselves while we're destroying everything. If pushed to chose, they'd probably have to side with the economic super powers, unless they saw some overwhelming evidence that one side had a clear advantage over the other.

either way, this is cool.