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The news has come that Russia is sending military forces to Syria and is currently setting up a forward base near Damascus (Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus | Zero Hedge). Saudi Arabia and the UAE have invaded Yemen with ground troops( Open War In Yemen! Saudi Arabia and UAE Invade ). Ukraine has of course lost the Crimea to Russia and is nearing collapse due to it's civil war. US, UK, French and a host of NATO forces have been actively at war for over a decade and Israel is bombing inside virtually all it's neighbor's boundaries with impunity. Isis is raging across the Middle East committing daily atrocities with the honest belief that we're in the end of days and even North and South Korea were shooting at each other just a couple weeks ago. Things keep "randomly" blowing up in China quite spectacularly and sustained cyberwar attacks continue 24/7 with a vast majority of attacks originating from China ( Norse Attack Map ) Meanwhile currency manipulation and stock market crashes are called "acts of war" and bring carnage to the global economy.
No, it's not your granddaddy's World War but how can anyone say the world isn't at war!? Do we need more than the 2 dozen countries actively fighting the current (mostly) interconnected wars right now? Do we need more than just the several hundred thousand people killed during the past decade or so from the fighting, a bigger displacement of refugees than the tsunami of people pouring into Europe to escape the carnage of their homelands? Does there have to be a war bonds campaign or Bob Hope performing in an army uniform for it to count as a "World War"? Is it not "WW3" until after the nukes are launched? (BTW... they *might* have already started with those too: Possible Tactical Nuclear Strike (Neutron Bomb) in Yemen? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization)
I would guess the average American thought "so what" when Hitler invaded Poland and considered the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and massive military buildup to be "none of (our) business". But we've gotta wake up... WW3 has already started without any official announcement and we're too busy looking at Miley's boobs, hating people who aren't the same color as us or watching Trump act like a chimp in a bid to be the king of fools to notice!
I cant fault Russia for helping Syria... Like the article said, I had no idea that SA and UAE had invaded yemen..China dumped our debt today... we''re most certainly too busy with gossip and race. The media makes me sick. I get more news from CD links.. Interesting post.. I would say things look pretty hairy...
Lol you guys are good at over exaggerating things, these wars that are going on today are practically a pillow fight compared to actual wars that have happened... lay off the cnn guys
I would say that the situation is more parallel to the tinderbox before WWI.
It is hard to see this actually becoming a shooting war because the United States would roll any coaltion assembled against it.
China would present mor eof a threat than Russia or any Middle Eastern power. I know that China had carrirer killer missles and all, but they would only even thigs up so much, and when they started losing and seeing their cities destroyed, large segments of the Chinese popluation wuld revolt, and the pwers that be know that.
I don't know. Seems to me taht things ar ejust going to be crappy for a long time.
Please explain to me how a stand off between TWO countries can possibly be considered a WORLD war?
Nobody "refers" anything. Quit makin **** up.
That escalated quickly.
Norman Podhoretz has suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought, although by proxy, on a global scale, involving the United States, NATO, the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. Similarly, Eliot Cohen, the director of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, declared, in The Wall Street Journal, that he considers World War III to be history, writing: "The Cold War was World War III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map." On the 24 May 2011 edition of CNBC's Kudlow and Company, host Lawrence Kudlow, discussing a book by former deputy Under-Secretary of Defense Jed Babbin, accepted the view of the Cold War as World War III, adding, "World War IV is the terror war, and war with China would be World War V."
Some of the battles of WWIII, I know are obscure, you 'll have to trust me that these little skirmishes took place. Not many have heard of these conflicts there's probably only a page or two in some obscure history tome at the Library of Congress, but they are; Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Think hard.
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lay off the cnn guys 
