NEW YORK TIMES 15th MARCH 2022 - WWIII

 

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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

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

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 -

Sky -

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

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