{"id":21768,"date":"2016-09-22T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21768"},"modified":"2016-09-22T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:47:06","slug":"four-flash-points-that-could-trigger-world-war-iii-we-have-not-been-this-close-to-nuclear-war-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21768","title":{"rendered":"Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: \u201cWe Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/four-flash-points-that-could-trigger-world-war-iii-we-have-not-been-this-close-to-nuclear-war-in-a-long-time_09212016\">Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: \u201cWe Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"490\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"240\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39033\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nukeattack1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nukeattack1-300x157.jpg 300x, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nukeattack1.jpg 500x\" alt=\"nukeattack1\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As can readily be seen by the current events, the world has not been this close to a nuclear war and World War 3 in a long time.\u00a0 There are four major flashpoints right now that could easily escalate and ignite a powder keg, transforming from a regional conflict or conflicts into a world war: Syria, the South China Sea, Ukraine, and North and South Korea.\u00a0 The \u201creconstruction\u201d of a Cold War-type faceoff, initiated by the U.S. and NATO building up forces in Eastern Europe and facing off against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A nuclear war\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/the-threat-is-real-and-imminent-the-next-world-war-will-be-initiated-by-a-first-strike-utilizing-an-emp-weapon_07262016\" target=\"_blank\">will be initiated by an EMP<\/a>\u00a0(Electromagnetic Pulse) detonation over the continental U.S., followed by a nuclear exchange and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/how-an-attack-on-america-would-probably-begin-possible-courses-of-action-by-foreign-military-powers_04052016\" target=\"_blank\">war with conventional forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the U.S. has \u201cmistakenly\u201d bombed Syrian governmental military forces, causing at least 60 deaths with more than 100 others wounded.\u00a0 The Russian government is sizzling, especially with the response by (of all people) Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the UN had this to say to the media, as reported by CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cWe are investigating the incident.\u00a0 If we determine that we did indeed strike Syrian military personnel, that was not our intention. And we of course regret the loss of life.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True humanitarians, all, and especially she, the wife of Cass Sunstein and a true Marxist disciple of the Weather Underground (along with Cass) regrets the loss of life.\u00a0 The airstrikes occurred just two days before the U.S. and Russia were supposed to have joint airstrikes against ISIS.\u00a0 As ISIS is a creation of the U.S. State Department and the administration, it seems the U.S. decided to strike their\u00a0<em>true<\/em>\u00a0intended target\u2026the Assad government forces\u2026as it wants to topple Syria, and escalate things with the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: \u201cWe Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time\u201d As can readily be seen by the current events, the world has not been this close to a nuclear war and World War 3 in a long time.\u00a0 There are four major flashpoints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[149,1915,1914,11133,553,2006,581,694,6490,1439,740,776,821,827,834,862,891],"class_list":["post-21768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-electromagnetic-pulse","tag-emp","tag-jerimiah-johnson","tag-nato","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-war","tag-russia","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-south-china-sea","tag-south-korea","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21768\/revisions\/21769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}