The Ever Shifting Reality of World War III
As the Information Age matures into its adolescence, we face declining trust in our institutions at a time when we are on the threshold of a post-fact world where it will be more difficult than it has ever been to trust that the media we see is real.
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu observes, “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive.”
If you’ve read the article of the same name, this information will not be new to you, but I uploaded this video talking about the UN’s direct support of Hamas through the UNRWA, which is meant to be a humanitarian organization that provides aid to Gaza and the West Bank.
Let’s look at some of the other deceptions that exist today.
“The Hamas leaders – and I say this for the first time – fled Gaza to the Sinai in ambulances, leaving their people behind.”
This quote is an excerpt from a speech given by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Arab American University in Jenin that aired on Palestinian Authority TV on October 13, 2009.
Hamas has used these same tactics over and over again in their conflicts, as have other Islamic caliphate groups, using ambulances to carry weapons, fighters, and leadership, hiding behind human shields in hospitals, and in schools, spreading lies and propaganda denying the atrocities of their war crimes when western powers target valid military targets behind innocent human shields.
Hamas and other terror organizations, conveniently, do not abide by the same conventions they seek to impose; it is a war crime under both the Hague and Geneva Convention to use human shields, and not one to target military assets that have been mingled with civilian populations.
Islamist social media accounts are still claiming that there is no evidence that the hospital, which Amnesty International says was used by Hamas to torture, interrogate, and kill both Palestinian dissidents and Palestinian’s believed to be Israeli collaborators, was used as a Hamas base of operations.
This is a kind of game Hamas and their cabal of international backers (Iran, Qatar, and Russia, primarily) play with Western media, intended to exploit our natural empathy for the oppressed. All the Islamic Caliphate groups engage in this kind of duplicity; Russia has adopted many of these same manipulations, as seen in their conflict with the Ukraine.
Friendly western voices like the actor John Cusack, a prolific critic of western military actions under the guise of humanitarianism, give them the sheen of legitimacy.
Below is video of the IDF discovering corpses at the SuperNova music festival in southern Israel near Kibbutz Re’im. Hamas has denied responsibility for this slaughter, claiming it was the result of an IDF operation, despite that they have also released video confirming that hostages taken from the concert is in Gaza.
Qatari state controlled media outlet Al Jazeera covered the mass shooting by Hamas seen below as an Israeli airstrike; note the distinctive lack of any actual signs of an airstrike. This incident was actually a shooting reportedly perpetrated by Hamas snipers on Palestinians attempting to flee the conflict.
Islamic social media like this “Palestinian politician” either took up this same lie and ran with it, or created it in the first place, and al Jazeera ran with it.
This video is quite self evidently NOT the aftermath of a bombing or an airstrike. It contains absolutely none of the hallmarks of a bombing or an airstrike; it contains many hallmarks of a mass shooting.
Some accounts then began taking up the position that it was a shooting, but that the Israelis did it, and nevermind that the Israelis could not have shot anyone since they had no ground troops in the area at the time.
This was Hamas militants killing their own civilians for trying to flee to safety; you can still see the belongings they were carrying, scattered across the road.
Taha added, “Similar acts have previously been attributed to Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists in Syria. They do not want civilians to leave; they want to use them as human shields and kill anyone who attempts to leave. Hamas terrorists in Gaza will, as usual, blame Israel because it is easy and there is media that accepts this propaganda.”
But the lie is told, and told, and told, and research shows that repetition increases perceived truth equally for true and false statements alike, and that once you accept something as true, it can be incredibly difficult to correct false beliefs.
As an easy example from the last 20 years, despite claims to the contrary, the “common knowledge” that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction is false, contradicted by American discoveries of a clandestine network of biological weapons laboratories operated by the Iraqi Intelligence Service, also known as the Mukhabarat, which continued to investigate biological toxins even after the Iraqi weapons program was supposedly shut down.
The Mukhabarat reportedly conducted lethal human experiments until 1994; they maintained well equipped covert laboratories until the American invasion in 2003, concealing this fact from both UN inspectors and wider popular knowledge, even after the discoveries were disseminated by the media.
A prison laboratory complex that appeared to still be set up for human experimentation was also found, as were an Iraqi scientist's collection of biologics, with strains of disease of known potential for weaponization, as well as strains used for novel weaponization research on pathogens like Brucella and the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
So what lies is the US telling? Let’s look, as Goebbels suggested, at The Big Lie. How many wars is the United States fighting right now?
According to one website, somewhere between zero and 134. How is this possible? Neither the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 nor the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 were an official declaration of war; Congress hasn't officially declared a war since 1942, so there is no war. Wars have to be declared by Congress.
Although wars have to be declared by Congress, Article II, Section 2, of the United States constitution says,
"The president shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States"
The War Powers Act of 1973 only requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action. It also forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, plus an additional 30-day withdrawal period, without congressional authorization for use of military force or a declaration of war by the United States Congress.
However, the open ended 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force enables American Presidents to launch military operations and “conflicts” without any meaningful oversight, transparency, or fanfare of any kind from Congress… just not wars.
Between 2018-20 alone, President Trump, widely known among his supporters for having “started no wars,” initiated military deployments that were labelled "counter-terror activities” in 85 different countries, including deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Syria, and Somalia.
The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force has also been used by all presidents since it was first enacted to launch classified military operations.
In the 21st century, Russia first entered into conflict in the Middle East with its 2008 invasion of Georgia, a country that borders both Turkey and Russia, in response to a Georgian offensive in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia that is supported by Russia, whom it shares a border with. The war lasted for five days and resulted in the deaths of over 700 people.
South Ossetia, known to Russia as the State of Alania, has a population of just over 50,000 people, with 33,000 living in the capital city of Tskhinvali.
As of 2023, just five suspiciously allied members of the UN – Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria – recognise South Ossetia as a sovereign state, a group that apparently does not extend to Google Maps, who does not label it as a country.
The Georgian government and all other United Nations member states consider South Ossetia the sovereign territory of Georgia, currently occupied by Russia.
Unlike in their conflict in the Ukraine, Russian forces quickly overwhelmed the Georgian military and pushed deep into Georgia, with Russia temporarily occupying the Georgian cities of Zugdidi, Senaki, Poti and Gori, even beyond the ceasefire that ended the Five-Day war, brokered by the European Union.
The Russian intervention in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War was widely seen as a warning to other former Soviet satellites, much like their warning to dissidents waged through an international assassination campaign.
Following the Five Day War, Russia has increasingly returned to soviet style active interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere, particularly in Syria, where it intervened on behalf of the Syrian government in the so-called color revolutions of the Arab Spring (the name of which is itself an allusion to the Revolutions of 1848), during which Russia has also provided military assistance to Libya and Yemen. The United States and Russia worked on a plan to coordinate the airstrikes in Syria which never materialized.
These plans including setting up a joint headquarters, possibly in Amman, Jordan, where Russia and the US could share intelligence and targeting information for airstrikes against Islamist extremists.
In Libya, a ceasefire agreement was reached in 2020 between forces supported by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and the so called Tripoli government, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is backed by Iran, with additional support from both Turkey and Qatar.
From November 2015 to 2019, the United States carried out a series of both airstrikes in support of the Tripoli government against the ISIL presence in the region. By 2019, ISIL had largely been from holding Libyan territory.
Russia is now moving to expand its military presence in Libya, a plan that could include a naval base, giving it a military foothold near Europe’s southern border.
A defense agreement is being negotiated between Russia and Libya following a meeting between Putin and the Libyan eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar in Moscow, according to people briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified.
Tehran and Cairo have had a tense relationship since the 1979 Revolution in Iran, but the Supreme Leader of Iran recently announced his support for normalizing relations with Egypt.
Iran, which provides financial support to both Hamas and Hezbollah, also supplies Russia with the drones it’s using in its war with the Ukraine. Iran has come to be increasingly reliant on the outside, outsized power of China and Russia to survive crises, as it weathers through its diplomatic isolation from the west, regional tensions with Saudi Arabia, and mass social movements demanding change.
Earlier this year, China helped broker a deal to normalise relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia after a seven-year suspension of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Iranian version of Islamism is apocalyptic; “Establishing an Islamic government is a Shariah duty, and if Islamic scholars do not strive to do it, they are guilty.”
The Saudi Arabian version is much the same; according to the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia adopted by royal decree in 1992, the king must comply with Sharia and the Quran, while the Quran and the Sunnah (the traditions of Muhammad) stand as the country's constitution.
Islamists within the governments of both Saudi Arabia and Iran provided support for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a fact which was concealed by the United States government and the 9/11 commission report. Islamism holds that Islam is a way of life, a totality that is meant to overcome all other ways of life, particularly liberal democracy.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, ISIS/Daesh, the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with our alleged allies, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, et al, all detest Western-dom, which they view as something like a combination of moral degeneracy and an extension of the Holy Roman Empire and the Christian crusades, and they all desire a pan-Islamic superstate like the former Ottoman Empire.
Pan-Islamism advocates unity of Muslims under one Islamic caliphate or groups organized around Islamic principles like Hamas or Daesh that seek to establish a caliphate.
Pan-Islamism was first promoted by the Ottoman empire and Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last to control that Empire as it collapsed in on itself.
Pan-Islamism was meant to combat Westernization and foster unity within Islam. Check out the second paragraph of article eleven of the Hamas founding charter, where they talk about forcibly converting “any land the Moslems conquered by force,” to “the Islamic sharia (law).”
Elsewhere, they write that other religions can only co-exist with Islam in territories controlled by an Islamic government.
Beijing, which has publicly called for an end to fighting between Israel and Hamas, and claims not to take sides, negotiated a 25-year cooperation agreement with Iran, who funds Hamas, in March of 2021, after being proposed by Xi Jinping in 2016. The agreement vows to build more military cooperation through joint training exercises, and joint research and weapons development.
China, which has provided financial support to Russia to evade a Western economic blockade resulting from the invasion of the Ukraine, buying up cheap Russian oil for pennies on the dollar, is currently supporting a war in Mali in the North of Africa against ISIS.
China's involvement in Mali is part of its broader strategy of engagement with the global community, and China is increasingly building new security partnerships with both Middle Eastern and African countries. China's involvement in Mali is also allegedly part of its efforts to combat the spread of extremist terrorism from the Middle East to Africa, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping pretends to favor peaceful resolutions to international conflicts.
The Chinese relationship with Iran, however, is de facto support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and therefore terrorism, along with war between Israel and Hamas. Hamas considers itself brothers with other caliphate groups like ISIS, who China is reportedly working against in Mali.
Xi’s position on Gaza is identical to his stance on the war in Ukraine, where Beijing has asserted a supposedly principled neutrality, even launching peace missions, while at the same time deepening its ties to Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Russia, for its part, has continued its campaign of international aggression, stoking conflicts in the west through intelligence assets; not just internet assets like the Internet Research Agency and similar groups linked to what was formerly called the Main Intelligence Directorate, commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The GRU controls the military intelligence service and maintains its own special forces units.
A Moldovan couple arrested in Paris for allegedly painting Stars of David on school buildings reportedly told French investigators that they were acting on “orders from an individual in Russia.”
Since October 7, 2023, the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, 857 anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in France, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
The 33-year-old man and 29-year-old woman in this instance were seen by a witness, who reported that the pair were tagging “a blue star” on a wall in a bohemian enclave of Paris. Under questioning, the Moldovans told police that “they had committed this offense on the orders of a third party,” namely “an individual from Russia,” reported the French broadcaster Europe1, citing an unnamed source.
No additional information on the identity of the alleged Russian handler is currently available. The couple will most likely be deported.
Allegedly, these are all limited regional conflicts; unrelated incidents. Bloomberg recently published an article that drew from the International Institute for Strategic Studies published their annual Armed Conflict Survey, which suggests that more than 180 simultaneous conflicts of this variety are currently taking place, the most that have been seen since before 9/11, in the early 1990s just after the collapse of Soviet Union.
The Op Ed in Bloomberg, written by Max Hastings, notes that “…the Red Cross catalogues 459 armed groups whose activities provoke humanitarian concerns.”
The article also mentions “border clashes” around the globe, but fails to mention Finland, which recently closed it’s entire border following a migration surge that Finland says was organized by Moscow.
Finnish news reports suggest that Russian foreign intelligence was planning violent demonstrations to disrupt Sweden and Finland joining NATO, based on a Russian memo which leaked to the press.
“When we sent in the membership application a year and a half ago to join NATO, we were prepared to tackle with all sorts of Russian influence. So apparently this threat has not gone away,” Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told Politico.
According to war correspondent
, the Chinese Communist Party is doing the same thing to America’s porous southern border.The New York Post ran a story in February 2024 describing how court documents detail the southern border as central to a plot to murder a former president in Texas by an Ohio Iraqi, Shihab Ahmed Shihabto a self-proclaimed ex-ISIS fighter who claimed asylum in 2020 after flying into the US on a tourist visa, and then immediately began organizing a plot to smuggle a hit team of ISIS members over the border by way of Brazil, Central America, and Mexico, the FBI says.
Once they made it into the US on Texan soil, the ISIS members would have been provided with rifles and pistols by Shihab, and then they would attempt to assassinate former President Bush.
Shihab reportedly hates both Bush and the United States as a result of America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq; he reportedly lost both his home and his business in the war, after which, investigators say Shihab joined up with terrorist cells and began killing American troops.
Aside from the Ukraine, which involves Russia directly, Russia, China, the UK, a number of countries from the European Union, and The United States, as well as smaller regional partners like for instance most of Africa, are all involved in military conflicts across the globe, in which it is claimed either that other, smaller countries are the ones doing the fighting, or that all parties are fighting the same group of middle eastern pan African terrorists, who have been supported both directly and indirectly by everyone involved.
This is taking place from the west of Africa in Mali to the heart of the Middle East where groups like ISIS and Hamas proliferate like weeds; in Afghanistan, where Russia re-established diplomatic ties with the Taliban in Moscow on Apr 9, 2022; to the heart of Europe, in the Ukraine, a conflict in which Russia has threatened to invade Poland, as well as Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as Alaska and Texas.
Shortly after a widely mocked interview of Vladimir Putin by Tucker Carlson in early 2024, in which Vladimir Putin made repeated claims regarding the “Nazi-ism” of both the Ukraine and Poland, and gave a long, rambling lecture on the history of Euro-Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, a former Soviet now Russian politician serving as the senator from Zaporozhye Oblast since September 2023, threatened the United States directly.
Rogozin, who was formerly deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, and Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011, made his threat to target the United States and Britain directly in posts on X/Twitter.
The United States has provided Ukraine with over $53 billion in security assistance, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and training, and humanitarian assistance including food, water, and medical supplies. The United States is the single largest donor of military aid to Ukraine, with other major supporters including the United Kingdom, the European Union, France, and Canada.
The US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021; the United States, and to varying degrees, Europe, remain involved in the Islamist insurgency taking place in Syria (where Russia is also fighting), the Maghreb region of North Africa, including Algeria, Libya (where Russia is also fighting), Mauritania, and Morocco, as well as in the sahel, including in Tunisia, Niger, and Mali (where China is fighting).
The US had military advisers in the Ukraine from 2015 just after Russia invaded Crimea through 2022; after the recent attacks on Israel by Hamas, the US sent Army General Michael "Erik" Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, to Israel, who said he hoped to ensure the Israeli military has what it needs as it fights Hamas; the United States House of Representatives recently passed $14.5bn in military aid for Israel.
In reality, the third World War everyone is terrified of has been with us for some time. Wikipedia defines a World War as:
an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.
It defines major powers as:
recognized in organizations such as the Congress of Vienna or the United Nations Security Council, the permanent members of which are: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
What more can be said? There is no War, and it’s a Good War. For everyone, if everyone is the small, international group of people responsible for fomenting these atrocities. The first and second World War were Total Wars. How long until these conflicts grow to become the next total war?