{"id":29210,"date":"2017-12-28T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29210"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:28:10","slug":"is-the-buildup-to-world-war-i-being-repeated-for-wwiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29210","title":{"rendered":"Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Ak\u00e7am, has\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0today\u2019s geopolitics \u2014 the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War \u2014 as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI:<\/p>\n

These are wars of power, influence, and control over the use of Middle Eastern energy resources and the \u201csecurity issues\u201d related to it. It is quite obvious that the sides in this war are not \u201cthose who want democracy and human rights” versus “those in favor of evil dictatorships.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The axes that are now starting to take shape<\/strong>\u00a0are proof of this:\u00a0Saudi Arabia and Israel \u2013 openly supported by the United States (and likely Egypt over time)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 are forming one alliance;\u00a0Russia, Iran, and Turkey\u00a0are establishing another.<\/em><\/p>\n

A tableau reminiscent of 1918 power blocs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s alliances are modernized versions of WWI.<\/p>\n

World War I was\u00a0a mess of alliances on each of its two sides, the Central Powers, versus the Entente Powers<\/a>.\u00a0The aristocracies that were on the side of\u00a0the Central Powers included (among others) the following:<\/strong>\u00a0Jabal Shammar (Saudi Arabia allied with Turkey); Germany; Austria (including Croatia & Bosnia); Ukraine; Poland; Lithuania; Georgia; Turkey; Italy.<\/p>\n

The aristocracies that were on the side of the Entente Powers included:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>China; Japan; Czechoslovakia; Russia; Serbia; UK; Canada; US.<\/p>\n

Today, we instead have\u00a0the West:<\/strong>\u00a0US; UK; Saudi Arabia (UK-allied \u2018Arab Revolt\u2019 that ended in 1925 with Ibn Saud\u2019s victory); Israel; EU led by Germany; Ukraine; Japan; South Korea; versus\u00a0the East:<\/strong>\u00a0Russia; Iran; Turkey; China.<\/p>\n

An odd-man-out is North Korea, which will be supported by China if it stops developing its nuclear program beyond what\u2019s needed for its self-protection (protection against repeating what had happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi), but which will be opposed by China if it develops an aggressive, conquest-oriented, imperialistic, nuclear capability (which would reduce security not only for Japan and South Korea, but also for China).<\/p>\n

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Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Ak\u00e7am, has\u00a0described\u00a0today\u2019s geopolitics \u2014 the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War \u2014 as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]<\/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":[2299,204,259,2571,4394,1795,11470,522,16491,643,8203,17695,862,891,4411,3985],"class_list":["post-29210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-control","tag-democracy","tag-empire","tag-energy-resources","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-human-rights","tag-influence","tag-middle-east","tag-military-buildup","tag-power","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-taner-akcam","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-i","tag-world-war-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210","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=29210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29211,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions\/29211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}