@Qingu Maybe read the link I posted? Or are you just being deliberately obtuse?
The conflicts are connected and yes, worldwide. One could say that the different theaters of WW II were seperate but connected ones. They spanned a smaller area than is now spanned by these connected conflicts for resources. That the lives claimed and communities destroyed are more severe in qualitative terms could be argued, but not the quantitative terms. The number of major corporations is not much bigger than the number of nation states involved in World War II, and most have national government backing.
If your main objection is that a World War must be perpetrated by nation states, then fine. I don’t think it’s a useful standard, because entities exhibiting massive control and military force can wage war whether or not they’re nations or corporations, and in particular because there’s usually extreme collaboration between the two. In Strangely Like War, George Draffan and Derrick Jensen clearly articulate the manner in which police and military are used to protect and facilitate the resource extraction committed by corporations, whether it’s legal or not. That was just in the logging industry, and we see examples of it in more extreme cases, like Peruvian natives being machinegunned when they opposed the installation of megadams that would destroy their homes. Killed by governments to serve corporations.
The fascists sought direct and obvious authoritarian control over large swaths of the world. These new powers seek to control the world through its resources. That they’re decentralized is no matter.
If there is to be another major worldwide war between nation states, it will be over oil. Iraq, Libya, etc. will simply be precursors, much like the Spanish Civil War was a precursor to World War II. With more and more of the economy being based around oil, and major oil reserves like those found in Saudi Arabia showing marked decline, nations will become more desperate to control them. Perhaps resources like China’s rare earth metals will be points of contention, as well.