{"id":24905,"date":"2015-11-05T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2015-11-05T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:12:47","slug":"question-of-the-year-has-wwiii-already-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"Question Of The Year:  Has WWIII Already Begun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohnert Park, CA<br \/>\nNovember 5, 2015<\/p>\n<h1><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Has WWIII Already Begun?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>World War III is imminent! Military forces have been dispatched; chess moves\u00a0have been made; massive drills are being conducted; millions of displaced\u00a0persons are virtually invading Europe; peace conferences are being held;\u00a0and the calls for escalation can be heard across the land.<\/p>\n<p>As Thea Paneth wrote in the essay below, all the criteria for another world war are being met under current conditions. If 9\/11 constituted &#8220;The New Pearl Harbor&#8221; that the Neocons lusted for in order to establish Pax Americana, the shooting down of the Russian airplane over the Sinai last week may be the equivalent for that powerful nation:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43313.htm\">Is This War World III?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This means the potential for a full-scale global conflagration is increasing. \u00a0Many of us<br \/>\nfeel that Martin Luther King was right: the US is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet today. \u00a0More than 50 years after the civil rights leader uttered those words during the Vietnam\u00a0era,\u00a0America is still running wild across the globe with military forces deployed in well over a 100\u00a0countries with hundreds of foreign bases.<\/p>\n<p>That combined with prolonged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq plus additional &#8220;kinetic<br \/>\naction&#8221; in Syria and drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and North Africa, means we are<br \/>\nfighting many wars&#8230;&#8230;none of which have been declared by Congress.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43329.htm\">Putting U.S. Forces Onto Sovereign Syrian Territory, Is An act Of War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Putin stated at the UN last month: <em><strong>&#8220;do you know what you have done?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIt was a rhetorical question directed at the West inviting us to take responsibility for the<br \/>\ndeath and destruction we have imposed on a vast swath of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Rhetorical or otherwise, the answer is clearly no! The neocon lite foreign policy of Obama<br \/>\nand Kerry is only slightly less aggressive than the hawkish yammerings of the Republican<br \/>\npresidential candidates Lindsey Graham and Hillary Clinton. It rivals\u00a0the mindless interventions of the previous Bush Administration that spawned ISIS and set\u00a0the stage for much of the chaos we see play out every day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mC7Fz0d9H8M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The proxy war unfolding in Syria is far more complicated and dangerous than the proxy<br \/>\nwars in Ukraine, the South China Sea and North Africa, although those are complicated, too.<\/p>\n<p>So my answer to the author of the above essay is &#8220;not quite yet!&#8221; WWIII has not quite begun! But with a weak UN\u00a0similar to the previously inadequate League of Nations prior to WWII, the &#8220;gathering storm&#8221; now\u00a0confronting the planet is potentially far more treacherous than what Churchill foresaw in the\u00a0years prior to the conflict that swept the globe more than 70 years ago.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43313.htm\">Is This War World III?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As events continue to swirl out of control, the prospects for peace remain dim. What<br \/>\ncombination of sane thinking will emerge to deter the forces of chaos now gaining greater<br \/>\ndominance remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts by Pope Francis to introduce compassion, love and spirituality into the<br \/>\nconversation may well be misguided by focusing on the controversial manmade<br \/>\nglobal warming agenda rather than on stopping war and nuclear proliferation.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, at least someone is attempting to promote a different, more<br \/>\nelevated approach to the future than the raw use of force to solve serious problems.<\/p>\n<p>The world watches in dread as military forces are deployed, rhetoric is escalated, and massive\u00a0drills are undertaken while the efforts at peaceful resolution in Vienna and elsewhere are timid\u00a0compared to the rising threat level.<\/p>\n<p>Opposing powers are facing off at all the major trigger points. Push may very well give way<br \/>\nto shove with who knows what tragic consequences in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>These proxy wars are reminiscent of Spain in the 1930&#8217;s that served as a prelude to WWII.<br \/>\nHopefully we will have a different result and diplomacy will win out in the end!<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43318.htm\">Kerry\u2019s Debacle in Vienna<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43316.htm\">Peace Talks, An Exploded Russian Airliner \u2013 and NATO-Trident Juncture<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-moving-jets-intended-air-203433421.html\">The US is moving jets intended for air-to-air combat to Syria \u2014 and Russia might be why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/neocon-warmonger-expects-extraordinarily-massive-military-retaliation-by-putin-against-isis-over-russian-plane-crash\/\">Neocon Warmonger Expects \u201cExtraordinarily Massive\u201d Military Retaliation By Putin<br \/>\nAgainst ISIS Over Russian Plane Crash<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ghost-war-in-syria-russian-spetsnaz-facing-u-s-army-special-forces-there-is-bound-to-be-shooting\/\">Ghost War in Syria: Russian Spetsnaz Facing U.S. Army Special Forces: &#8220;There Is Bound to Be Shooting&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=112603\">Russia just conducted a large-scale nuclear missile exercise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=112599\">France Deploys Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Fight ISIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=112593\">Germany: Fears as EU migrant crisis fuels biggest rise in Nazism since Adolf Hitler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohnert Park, CA November 5, 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Has WWIII Already Begun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}