For Whom The Bell Tolls.

The World Cup is upon us and that doesn't seem to be the only global competition that's on its way. There's another one, where countries also face off to eliminate each other in the bid to win. It's called a world war.

A stray missile landed in Poland, killing two people, which would make you believe that NATO's Article 5 would be triggered. Yet, I don't truly believe it will. It's actually not the first time a NATO nation has come under an accidental attack since Russia started its so-called 'operation' in Ukraine.

Anyway, isn't it somewhat amusing how suddenly all of our lives are at this ongoing risk of an Earth-shattering and ending war? Twitter seems to think so, as whenever there's even a scent of a new world war, all sorts of hilarious memes flood in from users worldwide.

War culture isn't new. Of course, it isn't. For as long as there's been one society there's been another trying to end it. But, this new wave of war culture is more calming, isn't it? Instead of intense propaganda we now have people celebrating the concept of war because it may stop their football club's biggest rivals from winning their league. Was this the mentality in the 1930s?

Netflix is awash with war films, with so many of them trending all the time. If they're not actively trending on the website, they're still being pushed amongst the vast majority of film categories. I've energetically watched and enjoyed about 4 war films in the last month alone and only one of them had any English spoken in the film.

Thanks to those 4 films alone, I've been intensely educated about battles and perspectives in world war I and 2 that I barely even knew about and I'd like to think of myself as well-versed in both wars due to the fact that I've already seen plenty of documentaries on the topics and I paid attention in history classes in school...sometimes.

Is this the world gearing up for a war that goes beyond the Middle East and Eastern Europe?

Or maybe this is a way of re-educating society on just how horrific war actually is for absolutely everyone. I'd like to think it's that. They say no one wins in war, and that's not a statement I'm going to debate. Large wars often cause further wars. In fact, so much of world war 2 was solely based on how world war 1 ended and the position it left Germany in.

Let's not even open pandora's box of Israel vs Palestine or North and South Korea.

Anyway, I think England has a good chance of going deep into the final stages of the World Cup, but I'm not convinced Gareth Southgate will manage his team well enough to see the nation win its second World Cup.

If I was a betting man, I'd put some money on Argentina.