In a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.
The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week. From Kashmir to Khan Younis, Hodeidah, Port Sudan and Kursk, the only sound is of explosions, and the only lesson is that the old rules no longer apply.
Indeed Fiona Hill, the policy analyst and adviser to the UK government on its imminent strategic defence review, argues the third world war has already started, if only we would recognise it.
And yet if 2 billion muslim people decide they will fight for Palestinians and the US continues to be Israels bitch and tries to protect them from the consequences of their war crimes, itll be a world war.
Like they ever cared.
Has there ever been even the slightest indication of that? The Muslim world has had 70 years to fight Israel, and when someone tried, nobody was helping. I admit I don’t have much understanding of the politics of the middle east, but it seems to be a very far fetched speculation.
Fair point, although Isreal is now making moves on Syria and Lebanon, and if they continue to follow Ben Gurions plan they will attack Jordan and Egypt as well. And Israel hates turkey and hopes to draw the US into a war with Iran, which would not be easy. Israel cant be trusted to stop attacking people before they do something stupid.
I acknowledge this is 100% a true scenario, it even seemed Israel almost succeeded last Trump was president, by almost I mean it was very very close. So absolutely a conflict involving Israel and USA vs Iran cannot be ruled out.
I think Trump likes the idea of the power of being US commander of a war. The man is completely sick in the head.
But I don’t think it will escalate to a world war. The moment USA steps in and goes to war, nobody wants to go up against USA if they have the option not to. USA is simply too powerful.