*This is if the war arises, directly or indirectly, from escalations of US-China tensions, Middle Eastern (including North African) tensions or conflicts, or the war in Ukraine.

To be a world war, it would need to draw in many of the principal nations of the world (taken from this definition). This does, however, still remain open to interpretation, and I suggest that if the war is likely to be labelled a "world war" by major news sources and governments, it could reasonablly be classified as such for the purposes of this poll.

From Wikipedia: "Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa, is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara." And, "The term serves as a grouping counterpart to North Africa, which is instead grouped with the definition of MENA (i.e. Middle East and North Africa) as it is part of the Arab world, and most North African states are likewise members of the Arab League."