Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
TBH, as far as a lot of this WW3 talk is concerned, some people believe that the 20+-year-long 'War on Terror' (post-9/11) has technically been WW3 (and still is).
And as mentioned above, this Ukraine conflict did technically begin back in 2014, but it's coverage was kept relatively low-key in this country for the most part. As well as the Salisbury poisoning incident back in 2018 (which I believe was an isolated incident and not directly linked to what's going on right now, plus wasn't actually intended as a full-on attack on the British public per se), there was another likewise incident back in 2006 that was perpetrated by Russians, of which I don't recall the media making that big a deal of at the time, despite happening about a year after the 7/7 attacks, which were still of course fresh in many people's memories at that time.