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WWIII
will start just like WWII, as a growing number of seemingly unconnected
conflicts
NEW YORK TIMES 15 MARCH 2022 - THIS IS HOW WORLD WAR THREE BEGINS
The usual date given for the start of World War II is Sept. 1, 1939, when
Hitler invaded Poland after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. But that was just one in a series of events that at the time could have seemed disconnected.
Among them: Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. The remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936 and the Spanish Civil War, which started the same year. Anschluss with Austria and the Sudeten crisis of 1938. The Soviet invasion of Poland weeks after the German one and Germany’s western invasions the following year. Operation Barbarossa and
Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The point is, World War II didn’t so much begin as it gathered, like water rising until it breaches a dam. We, too, have been living through years of rising waters, though it took Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine for much of the world to notice.
Before the invasion, we had the Russian invasions of Georgia, Crimea and eastern Ukraine; the Russian carpet bombing of Aleppo; the use of exotic radioactive and chemical agents against Russian dissidents on British soil; Russian interference in U.S. elections and massive hacks of our computer networks; the murder of Boris Nemtsov and the blatant poisoning and imprisonment of Alexei Navalny.
Were any of these sovereignty violations, legal violations, treaty violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity met with a strong, united, punitive response that could have averted the next round of outrages? Did Western responses to other violations of global norms — Syria’s use of chemical weapons against civilians, Beijing’s eradication of Hong Kong’s autonomy, Iran’s war by proxy against its neighbors — give
Vladimir Putin pause?
In short, did Putin have any reason to think, before Feb. 24, that he wouldn’t be able to get away with his invasion?
He didn’t. Contrary to the claim that Putin’s behavior is a result of Western provocation — like refusing to absolutely rule out eventual
NATO membership for Ukraine — the West has mainly spent 22 years placating Putin through a long cycle of resets and wrist slaps. The devastation of Ukraine is the fruit of this appeasement.
The Biden administration now faces the question of whether it wants to bring this cycle to an end. The answer isn’t clear. Sanctions have hurt the Russian economy, arms shipments to Ukraine have helped to slow the Russian advance, and Russia’s brutality has unified
NATO. This is to the president’s credit.
But the administration continues to operate under a series of potentially catastrophic illusions.
Sanctions may devastate Russia in the long term. But the immediate struggle in Ukraine is short term. Insofar as one of the main effects of sanctions has been to send tens of thousands of middle-class Russians into exile, they actually help Putin by weakening a potent base of political opposition. As for the oligarchs, they might have lost their yachts, but they’re not about to pick up their guns.
Arming Ukraine with Javelin and Stinger missiles has wounded and embarrassed the
Russian military. Providing Kyiv with MIG-29 fighter jets and other potentially game-changing weapon systems could help turn the tide. Refusing to do so may only prolong Ukraine’s agony.
Frequent suggestions that Putin has already lost the war or that he can’t possibly win when Ukrainians are united in their hatred for him or that he’s looking for an offramp — and that we should be thinking up ingenious ways to provide him with one — may turn out to be right. But they are grossly premature. This war is only in its third week; it took the
Nazis longer to conquer
Poland. The ability to subdue a restive population is chiefly a function of the pain an occupier is willing to inflict. For a primer on that, look at what Putin did to Grozny in his first year in office.
Refusing to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine may be justified because it exceeds the risks NATO countries are prepared to tolerate. But the idea that doing so could start
World War III ignores history and telegraphs weakness. Americans squared off with Soviet pilots operating under Chinese or
North Korean cover in the Korean War without blowing up the world. And our vocal aversion to confrontation is an invitation, not a deterrent, to Russian escalation.
There is now a serious risk that these illusions could collapse very suddenly. There’s little evidence so far that Putin is eager to cut his losses; on the contrary, to do so now — after incurring the economic price of sanctions but without achieving a clear victory — would jeopardize his grip on power.
Bottom line: Expect him to double down. If he uses chemical weapons, as Bashar al-Assad did, or deploys a battlefield nuclear weapon, in keeping with longstanding Russian military doctrine, does he lose more than he gains? The question answers itself. He wins swiftly. He terrifies the West. He consolidates power. He suffers consequences only marginally graver than the ones already inflicted. And his fellow travelers in Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang take note.
How does the next world war begin? The same way the last one did.
MEDIA
ARTICLES LEADING UP TO WWIII
BBC
News - 19 May 2023 - Japan's pacifism hangs in the balance as China &
North Korean threats loom
Big
Break - June
2024 - Final Draft panel of judges $80,000 dollars prizes for winning
scripts & screenplays
CNDUK
- 15 May 2024 - Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament
CNN
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Daily
Express - 11 May 2024 - Putin crisis after NATO issues 'red lines' warning as West braces for WW3 with Russia
Daily
Express - 8 July 2022 - What
would happen in a NATO Vs BRICS war?
Daily
Mail -
Daily
Star - 11 December 2023 - Zendaya
is to play Cleopatra
in Denis
Villeneuve's epic with Sony
Pictures
ITV
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Jerusalem
Post - 29
June 2022 - Israel state comptroller world not ready for cyber security
WWIII
NBC
News -
New
York Times - 15
March 2022 - This is how World War Three begins
NTI
Nuclear Threat Initiative - 31
October 2023 The Cyber Nuclear Threat
Reuters
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Sky
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The
i - 16 May 2024 - We
are at war with Russia - Emerging new world order Puting & Xi
The
independent - 10
March 2017 - World War 3 is coming
The
Independent - 3 September 2023 - Russian
Cyber Attacks Relentless as threat of WW3 grows
The
Guardian -
The
Telegraph - 15 April 2024 - Wallace:
West must stand up to Iranian bullies
The
Telegraph - 21st August 2024 - US
prepares for joint Chinese, North Korean & Russian missile strike
The
Times -
The
Washington Post -
Vox
News - 17 March 2022 - Funding
withdrawn for anti-nuclear campaigns despite Ukraine
Wall
Street Journal -
BOOKS
INDEX
Michael
Mathiesen - Cyber
Wars United: We must win world war three - 17 July 2003
James Rosone & Miranda Watson -
Book 1: Prelude to World War III
James Rosone & Miranda Watson -
Book 2: Operation Red Dragon, the Unthinkable
James Rosone & Miranda Watson -
Book 3: Operation Red Dawn and the Siege of Europe
James Rosone & Miranda Watson -
Book 4: Cyber-Warfare and the New World Order
The devastating impact of
a potential nuclear war as perceived by society has galvanized the public to protest and march to confront this dire
subject, and make politicians aware of their concerns. These events are
typically captured in televised news reports and in the press.
Mostly, news coverage focuses on conflicts around the world, the
cumulative effect of which is to de-stabilize capitalist states to the
advantage of communist states, or states that wish to spread their
religious ideals using force, despite freedom of thought of conscience, as embodied in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, being a right that applies
equally and without discrimination to other religions. Where, the free democratic
world recognises the rights of other nations, for their citizens to
follow their faith without seeking to change their vocation or beliefs -
and are welcomed in peace.
But, the reciprocal acceptance of Christian and other related faiths in the West is
not always forthcoming - most especially from extremists and terrorists.
https://nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opinion/russia-ukraine-world-war-iii.html
https://nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opinion/russia-ukraine-world-war-iii.html
Commander John
Storm just wants to be left alone to complete his DNA collection, and
explore the uncharted regions on planet
earth. But he always seems to be
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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