World War III is Here and We’re Losing It
While we wait for a big war that may never come, we’re losing the little ones.
[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
World War III is everywhere and nowhere. Politicians and pundits predict it and warn about it as they’ve been doing for 70 years. And for all of that time we’ve been fighting World War III.
Is WWIII in Iran or Ukraine? Yes in its own way. Is it in the confrontations in the South China Sea, the Hamas attack on Israel or in the riots in the streets of our own cities? Also all yes. Not to mention cartels smuggling drugs and foreign influence operations being run in D.C.
And it’s in a thousand other incidents and crises, some that make the news and some that don’t, but that are all around us and others which have long become part of our history. It’s all WWIII.
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” Einstein was quoted as saying. But Albert was as good at physics as he was bad at politics and he had it the wrong way around. It’s WWIII that‘s fought with stones.
The atomic bomb, but not just it, had ended world wars as we knew them. Even more decisively than Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States had conclusively demonstrated that nations with superior production capacities combined with manpower and technological advancement will win any world war. For the Soviet Union, a world war against the country whose factories had supplied it with everything it needed to beat the Nazi war machine was unthinkable.
Instead the Soviet Union launched its own third world war fought not with atom bombs, but in some cases with stones and sticks, but mostly a political war that depended on spreading Communism, building third world alliances, and subverting America from within. It won that war even as its politics and economics imploded, finally leading to the fall of the Soviet Union.
While the United States was the last man standing in the Cold War, after paying a bloody price from Korea to Vietnam to the Middle East, it had inherited a world order shaped by the USSR. America had built multinational institutions, beginning with the United Nations, that had been hijacked by what we, in less politically correct times, would have called ‘subversives’.
Asia, Latin America and the Middle East were dominated by socialist and nationalist movements that had been allied with the Soviet Union and shaped by its Communist ideologies. All that the fall of the USSR did was cut off some of the funding. It also encouraged China to step into Russia’s place as a much more credible peer rival to the United States and the West.
But it wasn’t China that picked up the Soviet mantle: it was the Islamists, many of whom we had nurtured as anti-Communists. From Iran to the Muslim Brotherhood, they were the ones with a global vision, a knack for running secret organizations and a murderous belief system that was just as compelling to its adherents as Communism was to its acolytes earlier in the 20th century.
While most people still think of WWIII as some grandiose phenomenon in which nuclear weapons will rain from the sky leaving behind a poisonous wasteland filled with lurching zombies, the real world war was being fought before many of us were born. WWIII does look like Ukraine, but it also looks like Vietnam and like Iran bombing the Marine Barracks 40 years ago. And it’s also China stealing our technological secrets and barraging us with propaganda.
WWIII is small scale and deep. It’s compact proxy wars that fall short of a nuclear exchange. It’s information warfare that exploits our weaknesses. and It’s ideological, economic and social. Instead of nuclear explosions, it’s narrow territorial conflicts, it’s influencers on social media spreading lies and it’s hacking attacks. It’s death by a thousand cuts rather than one big smash.
The winners and losers of the first two world wars were conditioned by their history to think of a world war as something apocalyptic, but WWIII as it is now is being fought by nations and movements that were on the sidelines or bit players in those conflicts, but who have absorbed the post-war strategies of those wars that terrorism, guerrilla warfare, influence campaigns, economic warfare and limited hostilities are better tools of ju-jitsu against great powers.
The WWIII that so many imagined never came because we were the victims of our own success. With or without nuclear weapons, no one wanted to fight an unrestricted global war against us so they found ways to undermine us, to tie us down and small wars to drag us into. They focused on undermining our morale, fracturing our society, turning our youth against us, corrupting our morals, buying out our economy and invading us through immigration.
While we still keep waiting for a big war to begin, our enemies have been winning it. World War III is here and we’re losing it because we don’t see what’s going on around us as a war.
And so we never really fight back.
A world war plays to our strengths and our enemies, from the Soviet Communists of the Cold War to the Chinese Communists of today, from the local and international Marxist and Islamist coalitions, prefer to exploit our weaknesses. We may have the strongest army, but the worst internal security. There is nothing stopping foreign enemies from robbing us, ripping us off or just walking across the border. We hate the idea of war so we bribe our enemies to leave us alone, to return our citizens that they have taken hostage, and to win their hearts and minds.
Why try to tangle with an Abrams tank or an A-10 when you can bribe our politicians, corrupt our universities and fund terrorist groups to attack us around the world. That’s the real WWIII.
Americans have a weakness of thinking that history begins and ends, that it explodes outward in world-changing events, when history is just a record of the things going on around us. The world wars were not abrupt cataclysms that divided the past and the future, they were extensions of events that had been underway. War has a way of marking periods in time, but the absence of great wars is not an absence of history: it just means that they are being fought by other means.
Our unhealthy obsession with World War III has all too often blinded us to what is going on around us. We did not take Islamic terrorism seriously because our enemies seemed too small and backward. And we only view small wars in terms of their risk of exploding into big wars as if the only wars that really matter are the ones that might lead to the ‘Big One’.
Instead of fighting a war as we imagine it to be, we need to be ready to win the ones we’re in.
Reader Interactions
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
20 years ago, Biden got it right
During the September 28, 2023, hearing on “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) detailed how overwhelming evidence shows President Joe Biden lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family’s corrupt international and domestic business schemes.
The list is long, but it includes only his criminal dealings since 2008, after he became Obama’s V.P. There were other misdeeds committed by Biden during his many senatorial terms, but all of the above pale in comparison with the current situation, when more and more people in the know warn that he is pushing us to a nuclear WW3.
However, the purpose of this article is to give him credit when he was right, and if decision-makers in Washington would listen to his advice the world would be much safer, and definitely not on the edge of the abyss.
In a letter to President George W. Bush of November 7, 2001 signed by over 100 Members of Congress Biden’s signature goes first, and here is the full text.
President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500Dear President Bush:
As you prepare for the upcoming summit with President Putin, we commend the positive approach you have established with Russia. Too often, the focus of our bilateral relations has been on defense and security — precisely the issues on which our interests often collide. It would be more useful, as we move forward with a Russian policy for the 21st century to take a more holistic approach — one that takes into account Russia’s myriad concerns as well as our own.
Therefore, in consultation with many of the leading experts on Russia, we propose a series of bipartisan initiatives to engage Russia on issues such as the environment, energy, economic development, health care — as well as defense and security. We call this proposal “A New Time, A New Beginning.” Some of these are new ideas, but many are not. Many of these initiatives are already underway and need additional support to make even greater progress.
Such engagement is in the U.S. interest as well as Russia’s. If the United States and Russia cooperate on issues across the board, Russia will be more likely to work closely with America on the national security issues that matter most to us – missile defense, the war against terrorism, and proliferation.
We encourage you to review the enclosed proposal and hope that some of these initiatives will prove useful to you in the ongoing discussions between Russia and
America. We look forward to working with you to forge a new relationship that will benefit both our countries.Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Attached to this letter was a 40-page document titled “A New Time, A New Beginning,” prepared by Congressman Curt Weldon, who hand-delivered the document to Bush’s NSC adviser, Condoleezza Rice, in advance of the Bush-Putin November 13–15 summit in Washington and Crawford, Texas. This document included detailed proposals that could provide the basis for a new and mutually beneficial relationship with Russia.
It was also presented to Putin at the Russian Embassy in Washington at a November 13 reception, where, in the presence of over 400 foreign diplomats and notable public figures, the Russian president said, “We are ready to move Russia towards rapprochement with America as far as she is ready.”
Two days later, Bush responded at a local high school, declaring Putin “a new style of leader, a reformer ... a man who’s going to make a huge difference in making the world more peaceful, by working closely with the United States.”
What happened next is well known: war in Iraq, abrogation of the crucial security ABM treaty, a push to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, destruction of Libya and Syria, the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, rejection of Russia’s mutual security proposals in December 2021, and sabotage of the Minsk accords and the Russia-Ukraine peace deal reached in March 2022.
All of this was done with Biden’s vote as a senator or by his direct order as vice president or president.
The purpose of this post is to remind him and the rest of us of his signature on the document that could lay the foundation for a long-lasting peace, and strategic U.S.-Russia partnership to face the enormous challenges of the 21st century.
Biden not only betrayed all these hopes and ideas, but keeps fueling the fire by throwing more taxpayer billions and weapons into the fray, thus pushing the world toward a nuclear catastrophe.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Youngkin: Southern Border Chaos ‘Just Another Example’ of Biden’s Weakness - JOE HAS TO BE PUSSY, HE'S OUT THERE SUCKING BRIBES FROM EVERYONE
Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said on this week’s broadcast on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that President Joe Biden’s weakness on the Southern border was causing “chaos.”
Youngkin said, “The chaos that were seen at the Southern border is another example of the weakness from Joe Biden. We see weakness in foreign policy now we have international chaos, weakness at the border and we have drug chaos, national security chaos, humanitarian chaos. We see weakness in our economy because he does not understand that we have to fiscal responsibility and aggressive energy policy that preserves our advantage as the domestic full supplier of everything that we need. This is working against America in all aspects.”
He continued, “Joe Biden’s weakness when it comes to foreign policy is creating chaos around the world. It is his weakness in dealing with China that has enabled China to feel very confident about the economic coercion, military aggression, their extensive surveillance and on top of that trying to embed Chinese nationals in America so they can advance their agenda.”
He added, “This is why we work so hard in order to ban TikTok on state devices to pass legislation that forbids the Communist Party of China from acquiring land in Virginia. It is Virginia we have the largest naval base in the world.”
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