World War Three

Any student of the history of the Twentieth Century will see a frightening parallel to the lead up to the two World Wars in the conditions of world politics today. A polarized world with entangling alliances, rampant tensions between the sides, a general lack of respect for the strength of democratically ruled nations, and overbearing ambition in the minds of dictators were all qualities of the early nineteen hundreds. Today it is almost the same except there is a plurality of sides in the conflict of the day, Western democracies; Russian sphere; Chinese sphere; the Islamic State, Al Qida, Taliban; and the hapless states caught in between these sides makes up today’s roster of factions.

In 1914, it was a Serbian terrorist that led the alliances into the “Great War to End all Wars.” Today it could be the egoistic dictator of some backward state like North Korea or the minor terrorist splinters of the radicals that drags us all into a conflagration that would once again leave the world in ashes. My hat is off to Rex Tillerson for mitigating the tweets of his president and avoiding the lighting of the fuse to this bomb we call a world. After seventy-two years, it looks as though Pax Americana is about to end.

Are you prepared for the deprivation and hardship of the kind of war that defined the last century? With so many of the nations out there owning and deploying nuclear and chemical weapons, the coming war will be far more devastating to the civilians of the battlefield lands than even the Second World War. Prepare for the loss of a quarter to a third of the Earth’s human population. Acts of terror will be considered valid tactics by more than one faction, just as they were considered valid by the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

What will come out the other side of such a war? I can’t begin to predict, only hope. Survivalists have one thing right, we need to prepare for the worst case scenario.

Ol’ Fuzzy is not employable and was denied for disability benefits. The only thing I have is the blogs. But I don’t qualify for ads on the blogs until September. If you like the scribbles I post, please help me keep it going. You can leave me a gratuity by dropping a buck or two in Ol' Fuzzy's Tip Jar. This is a PayPal account I opened on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.