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Are We Heading Toward World War III? | Heni Ozi Cukier | TED

In this urgent talk, political scientist Heni Ozi Cukier analyzes the social, economic, political and military conditions that preceded the last two world wars, revealing how historical patterns and today’s geopolitical shifts may be pointing us in a dangerously familiar direction. Connecting past and present, he challenges us to recognize the warning signs — and…

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In this urgent talk, political scientist Heni Ozi Cukier analyzes the social, economic, political and military conditions that preceded the last two world wars, revealing how historical patterns and today’s geopolitical shifts may be pointing us in a dangerously familiar direction. Connecting past and present, he challenges us to recognize the warning signs — and act before it’s too late. (Recorded at TEDxLisboa on March 15, 2025)

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27 Comments

  1. @morchangstudios

    October 16, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    We are already in it

  2. @leosmi1

    October 16, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    GUYS, THIS IS A RIGHT WING BRAZILIAN HISTORY PROFESSOR.

    • @elimgarak3597

      October 16, 2025 at 4:27 pm

      Oh, thank you. As we all know, that automatically invalidates all of his arguments.

    • @jameszhou162

      October 16, 2025 at 8:57 pm

      We got the clue from his all villain countenance 😂😂😂

  3. @DANTAS-p8l

    October 16, 2025 at 3:27 pm

    Grande professor

  4. @adamhinde9538

    October 16, 2025 at 3:38 pm

    In times of economic crisis, they take you to war. We are already in WW3

  5. @derekpashko3444

    October 16, 2025 at 3:50 pm

    So many bots on here.

  6. @lai52001

    October 16, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    It’s one of the worst TED

  7. @weirdothings8672

    October 16, 2025 at 4:02 pm

    All world wars are ongoing.

    Flying missiles will just end one by one.

  8. @blackpearl1-477

    October 16, 2025 at 4:09 pm

    It’s as they say. WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones. It’s best to avoid WW3 from happening.

    On the other hand, it could be the very thing that will stop WW4 for happening all together and the world finally learns to grow up as a species. (John Lennon song plays in the background)🙄

    Imho any leader with war tendencies should be removed by any means. They don’t serve world society as a whole. They are a cancer to humanity. Seeing this otherwise is ignorant and foolish.

  9. @-.-..._...-.-

    October 16, 2025 at 4:24 pm

    This is such a crappy way to explain history

  10. @diegofmdutra

    October 16, 2025 at 4:33 pm

    What a joke…
    No words to the country financing genocide in Gaza.
    No mention to the president that started a global economic war.
    Nothing about ilegal operations in South America?
    Yeah, all blames on China and Russia.

  11. @urimtefiki226

    October 16, 2025 at 5:02 pm

    This war will be different than two previous wars, now every angle of the globe can be reached.
    No family is safe now I mean no one, so think carefully before is too late.

  12. @jerzykiler4386

    October 16, 2025 at 5:11 pm

    Yes, we are.

  13. @RdozeTV

    October 16, 2025 at 5:14 pm

    it’s been a while since we have war, let’s bring it on

  14. @i_am_aladeen

    October 16, 2025 at 5:37 pm

    This is a TEDx-talk, not TED.

  15. @brentlangford

    October 16, 2025 at 5:40 pm

    I am now dumber listening to this guy

  16. @leojkxu

    October 16, 2025 at 6:23 pm

    18 minutes all to say: yes

  17. @greenjackle

    October 16, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Hello Fellow Humans,

    Yes is the simple answer. Why is also simple. Capitalism. Capitalism has a simple goal to maximize profits while minimizing costs. The largtcost is humans. Humans don’t work 24/7 and we take breaks and we mess up and we have families and we get sick and we need a salary and benefits and insurance and liability insurance. Humans cost a ton.

    So here comes AGI and Robots and Automation. Currently 2025 Nviditis implementing $250 billion dollars worth of H200 servers. Which when finished will 3x to 5x all compute power in the world. It is Oct 2025 so they are almost done. Which means 2026 small and medium businesses will implement these tools. Thus we will see layoffs but not sky high. 2027 to 2028 however will be the large to mega corporations turn. They will have spent 2025-2026 implementing servers and software to test and make sure it does what they want. Thus allowing them to fire 60 percent or more of their work force. By 2027 to 2030 we will see 70 percent unemployment.

    In the USA Maga Republicans will of course blame Democrats and Liberals for this. So you could see that civil war is definitely goin to happen in the USA. But you can prevent civil war. How? Well world war 3 of course. Nothing united a country like a war. Who will be the enemy. Well the axis of evil of course. We have to have villains even if they are not villains. Because they of course will see themselves as the heros and us as the villains. It will probably be China Russia North Korea and Iran.

    Based on Maga being Christian I will assume the middle east aka Jerusalem will also have some to do with world war 3. Probably something about the apocalypse and a holy war. Blah blah blah. Because that’s what they do. They justify war and murder as God’s will.

    So we will probably have a second civil war in the USA unless the politicians decide to stop it by making up world war 3. Which honestly I would put money on that happening. Because war makes billionaires richer and richer as they have stocks in war time companies. The problem is if we had world war 3 we would have to build more factories because as of now we can’t keep up supplying Ukraine with weapons. Let alone if we were fighting China. So if we are planning for world war 3 we need to start building factories soon.

    Either way I am betting religion is going to end humanity. Because that’s what they want. They want to go to heaven and earth is just an annoying stopping point to their paradise. But what they seem to forget is if they have hate in their hearts they will not go to heaven and the maga cult hates a lot of things and groups.

  18. @Gaming4Justice

    October 16, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    On the thumbnail it kinda looked like he was in a certain party from previous century.

  19. @aikkoonwee9870

    October 16, 2025 at 6:54 pm

    the rhetoric of west is always war…

  20. @D8099.

    October 16, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    FUN FACT = WE HAVE LESS WARS TODAY THAN WHEN BIDEN WAS IN OFFICE. ALL RESOLVED THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP ❤. Of course the fear mongering antifa communists running “TED” 🙄 see it otherwise.

  21. @alvinagustus3774

    October 16, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Good… I am waiting for ww3 asap

  22. @eliomarlacerda6943

    October 16, 2025 at 8:44 pm

    This guy is an intellectual impostor. Blindly pro-USA-Isabel, he only gives opinions instead of reasoning.

  23. @NarcisoEmpatico

    October 16, 2025 at 8:51 pm

    Not afraid of nuclear bombs killing me. More frightened of living alongside clueless people with ideas like “China is always the enemy” or “America is the great Satan”

    Stupidity and ignorance that leads to hate and extremism will doom the human race into mediocrity, if these don’t manage to kill us all first

  24. @RenatoVargas

    October 16, 2025 at 8:57 pm

    Terrible talk. This person used 20 minutes to say nothing.

  25. @UjjwalKumar_234

    October 16, 2025 at 9:26 pm

    why did i know almost all of it already without being a “political scientist”

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