The surge in global conflict that marred the year 2023 has set alarm bells ringing in the halls of European defence establishments.
Not quite three weeks into 2024 have gone by since the governments of Estonia, Sweden, and now the UK alerted their respective countries to the possibility of an all-out war.
According to leaked German intelligence papers, Berlin is rushing to prepare backup plans in case Russian forces move westward from Belarus and anticipates Russia will begin another round of operations to subjugate Ukraine.
Iran’s so-called “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, is intensifying its attacks on Israel and commercial shipping routes. This has prompted the UK and US to launch a series of devastating air and sea strikes. The Israel-Hamas conflict poses a threat to spread violence throughout the Middle East.
Further east, Beijing is even more enraged by Taiwan’s choice of a new president who values democracy, making a Chinese invasion of the island republic in the near future seem increasingly plausible.
Kim Jong Un, meanwhile, is waiting to send his enemies into a radioactive winter by clutching the keys to North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
This week, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps attempted to summarise the serious dangers that the country and the rest of the world face in a harsh warning address.
“In five years, we may be examining several theatres, such as those in North Korea, China, Iran, and Russia.” With all of the wars that exist around the globe today, do you think that number will increase or decrease?
‘I suspect we all know the answer.’
International security experts are unanimous in their assessment that we are now closer to World War III than we have been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. MailOnline looks at the global “fault lines” that have the potential to entangle Europe in a major military confrontation.
For the first time since the conclusion of World War II, the threat of a major military conflict returned to Europe with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The UK and EU jumped to Ukraine’s rescue right away, slamming economic penalties on Moscow and providing billions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid to support Kyiv’s war effort.
However, with over two years of fighting gone and no obvious end in sight, European countries must now face the very real potential that the war may continue indefinitely and maybe even beyond Ukraine’s borders.
In an alarming speech earlier this month, Sweden’s Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said, ‘There could be war in Sweden… The world is facing a security outlook with greater risks than at any time since the end of the Second World War,’ urging his citizens to join voluntary civil defence groups.
All of this, meanwhile, could have been planned to support Agenda 21 and the world’s ultimate saviour, and it’s not that slow now; it’s full tilt.
Politicians and the rich set off wars, but the end result is invariably the civilian casualty rate.
Old men start wars, and young men die in them. However, in a nuclear war, it wipes out everyone.
Perhaps these idiot world leaders could just meet up on a field and sort it all out with their fists instead of killing innocent civilians that want no part whatsoever with all this crap. I’d even pay Sky Box Office money to watch it, plus VAT, of course.
Seriously, though, somebody only needs to push the button, and then we will all go kaboom.
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