{"id":65796,"date":"2023-09-27T05:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65796"},"modified":"2023-09-27T05:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:59:48","slug":"is-world-war-iii-about-to-start-part-i-drift-toward-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65796","title":{"rendered":"Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
Nuke rattling from both sides over Ukraine.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Read Part 2 of this series\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is likely that billions of people around the world view the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war being waged by the U.S. against Russia. US President Joe Biden has pledged to aid Ukraine\u2019s pursuit of victory \u201cfor as long as it takes,\u201d without defining what the end state might be. Russian President Vladimir Putin has interpreted U.S. intentions to mean a fight \u201cto the last Ukrainian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with a discernible pulse is aware of the danger that the conflict could escalate into a conflagration large and destructive enough to morph into World War III. The threshold would likely be crossed once nuclear weapons were unleashed. The military doctrines of all nuclear powers stipulate that such an attack would justify an in-kind response, though without always ruling out the same for lesser provocations of a potentially existential nature.<\/p>\n

President Biden has said \u201cthe world faces the biggest risk of\u00a0nuclear Armageddon<\/a>\u00a0since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.\u201d The context of Biden\u2019s statement came a month earlier on September 21, 2022, when Putin warned the West he was not bluffing when he said he would be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia against what he said was \u201cnuclear blackmail.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Earlier, in an April 21, 2021, speech, Putin said:<\/p>\n

We really do not want to burn bridges. But if someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burn or even blow up these bridges, they must know that Russia\u2019s response will be asymmetrical, swift, and tough. Those behind provocations that threaten the core interests of our security will regret what they have done in a way they have not regretted anything for a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War Nuke rattling from both sides over Ukraine. Read Part 2 of this series\u00a0here. It is likely that billions of people around the world view the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war being waged by the U.S. against Russia. US President Joe Biden […]<\/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":[581,33940,694,33746,821,827,834,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-65796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-nuclear-war","tag-richard-c-cook","tag-russia","tag-scheerpost","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65796","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=65796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65797,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65796\/revisions\/65797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}