The alternative was to launch a half-baked WW3 with no real changes and then eventually decide to rebrand the whole thing to gain some popularity and just drop the 3.

https://lemmy.world/post/44387419

Hey look, a new creative way deny we are in WWIII!
nah like fallout we will just call it The Great War

Lol, fair enough.

I hope we are around to see the end of it I guess.