Beware Those Rushing to Declare World War III!!!

“War, what is it good for?” — Edwin Starr Absolutely nothing.

That is, unless you’re dealing with a regime run by madmen hell-bent on annihilating Jews, Christians—hell, the entire Western world—because their ideology cannot tolerate anything that doesn’t submit to it.

We are living in dangerous times. Scroll through social media, turn on cable news, or skim a few headlines and you’ll find no shortage of confident declarations that the world has already crossed that line. Every missile launch, every proxy attack, every geopolitical standoff gets folded into the same dramatic conclusion.

World War III has begun.

What we are living through is more complicated—and more dangerous in its own way. Let’s call what’s happening globally more of a World War 2.5 vibe than what the pathetic left-wing nuts seem quick to shout from the rooftops: “It’s happening! Israel started World War 3.”

This is not a formal global war with clearly defined alliances and battlefields like we saw between 1939 and 1945. Instead, it’s a messy, interconnected set of conflicts stretching across continents, ideologies, and technologies—many of them carrying the familiar stench of antisemitism at their core.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Iran and its network of proxy militias across the Middle East. China probing the........

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