Algorithmic Armageddon

How AI, Proxy Wars, and Misinformation Are Rewriting the Rules of War

Summer 2025. I flip on the news and feel that old knot tighten in my gut—a low-grade dread that’s become as routine as morning coffee. The headlines blur into one long emergency: China circling Taiwan, Russia entrenching in Ukraine, Iran rattling the nuclear saber. But this isn’t your grandfather’s Cold War. The battle lines are gone. The weapons are hidden. The wars are silent.

Welcome to a new kind of conflict—waged through proxies, coded in algorithms, and amplified by misinformation. And whether we admit it or not, World War III has already begun.