{"id":47304,"date":"2019-07-19T06:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47304"},"modified":"2019-07-19T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:31:40","slug":"on-the-brink-of-world-war-3-here-are-5-major-developments-within-the-last-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47304","title":{"rendered":"On The Brink Of World War 3: Here Are 5 Major Developments Within The Last 48 Hours\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/on-the-brink-of-world-war-3-here-are-5-major-developments-within-the-last-48-hours\">On The Brink Of World War 3: Here Are 5 Major Developments Within The Last 48 Hours\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/on-the-brink-of-world-war-3-here-are-5-major-developments-within-the-last-48-hours\/uss-boxer-wikimedia-commons#main\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/USS-Boxer-Wikimedia-Commons-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9906\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Has a war between the United States and Iran become inevitable?&nbsp; That is what some in the mainstream media seem to be claiming, but let us hope that is not true, because such a war would mean immense death and destruction.&nbsp; If the Iranian regime felt that their survival was at stake, they would throw&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/does-iran-already-have-nuclear-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything in their entire arsenal<\/a>&nbsp;at the United States and Israel, and they would unleash Hezbollah to commit horrific acts of terror all over the globe.&nbsp; That would include acts of terror inside the United States, and most Americans have absolutely no idea how nightmarish it would be&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/death-to-america-iran-is-poised-to-unleash-hordes-of-hezbollah-terrorists-on-u-s-soil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to have Hezbollah terrorists striking soft targets all across the country<\/a>.&nbsp; And in order to quickly win a war against Iran, the U.S. would probably have to use nuclear weapons, and that is a line that we do not want to cross.&nbsp; This wouldn\u2019t be anything like our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but very few people seem to understand this.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And within the last 48 hours, such a conflict has gotten much, much closer.&nbsp; Here are 5 of the most important developments\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#1 According to President Trump, the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz.&nbsp; The following comes from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/trump-says-u-s-navy-ship-shot-down-iranian-drone-n1031451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a U.S. Navy ship \u201cdestroyed\u201d an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 the latest in a series of tense incidents between Washington and Tehran.<\/p><p>Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that the USS Boxer \u2014 a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship \u2014 \u201ctook defensive action\u201d against the Iranian drone that had \u201cclosed into a very, very near distance, approximately 1,000 yards.\u201d<\/p><p>The drone was \u201cthreatening safety of the ship and the ship\u2019s crew\u201d and \u201cwas immediately destroyed,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Brink Of World War 3: Here Are 5 Major Developments Within The Last 48 Hours\u2026 Has a war between the United States and Iran become inevitable?&nbsp; That is what some in the mainstream media seem to be claiming, but let us hope that is not true, because such a war would mean immense [&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":[9664,4901,827,862],"class_list":["post-47304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-end-of-the-american-dream-blog","tag-michael-snyder","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304","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=47304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47305,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47304\/revisions\/47305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}