Then Why are They Hinting at WWIII?

To fool us. To deflect from real issues they are accountable for. The United States has failed to honor its commitment to lift anti-Iran sanctions; ensure freedom of trade; and encourage scientific, technological, and business ties between Iran and Western countries. NATO countries have failed to meet defense spending promises.  As of 2016, the United States spends more than $600 billion annually to fund its military forces and Overseas Contingency Operations, which is about 40% of the world’s military expenditures.

According to the 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Russia’s authoritarian government restricts citizens’ right to choose their leadership in free and fair elections; selectively prosecutes racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities and migrant workers; deny due process to defendants in politically motivated cases; and fails to protect human rights. For more than a decade, Russia has been attempting to diversify, innovate and modernize its economy, but has failed disastrously; calls to develop long-neglected sectors of the economy continue unheeded.

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Do You Think the “At-War” Countries Can Afford the Real Cost of Mutually Assured Destruction?

The First World War killed over 38 million people and cost about $186 billion in direct costs and $151 billion in indirect costs. The Second World War killed over 60 million people and cost $341 billion to the U.S. and $192 billion to the Soviet Union alone, in 1945. The U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in 37 “victim nations” since World War II. Russia is not at war with anyone. America is. However, does the country really need direct confrontation with Russia to unleash new terror? And, is Russia really ready for WWIII?

A Reddit user writes:

Putin is in no respect prepared for a conventional war. His country could not afford it, is not adequately equipped to conduct it, and it would backfire spectacularly. This inward-facing propaganda is intended to stoke panic and fear within his own population, very much in keeping with how Putin has conducted himself so far.

Corruption, censorship, national debt, police atrocities, 9/11 conspiracy theories, US presidential elections, and the petrodollar are a few of the numerous issues the two countries want to shift your focus from and make you believe that WWIII is imminent because of tensions in Syria  and at the South China Sea.

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Why WWIII will Almost Certainly Never Happen

The Week observes:

The possibility of complete annihilation provides a huge disincentive to launching and expanding total wars.  Sure, accidents could happen, but the possibility is incredibly remote. More importantly, nobody in power wants to be the cause of Armageddon.  The level of economic adaptation — even for large countries like Russia and the United States with lots of land and natural resources — required to adapt to a world war would be crushing, and huge numbers of business and livelihoods would be wiped out. It is clear at least that theincentives for world war are far lower than they were in previous decades, and the disincentives are growing.

This could very well be called Cold War II, but that won’t serve America’s or Russia’s purpose.  The bullies are just fooling around. How do disaster preparedness drills suppose to mean WWIII? How do only Syria and South China Sea become bone of contentions and not Kashmir, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, ISIS or North Korea?

Don’t close your eyes and think tensions are not there.  Instead, open your eyes and see why they are there.  Stop this fear mongering. Don’t let a few countries decide your future, at least not through war.

Related: How to Prevent the Third World War

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/09/russia-downplays-moving-nuclear-capable-missiles-to-kaliningrad

http://anonhq.com/russia-defense-systems-place-us-led-coalition-line-fire-syrian-army-attacked/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/04/fact-sheet-us-china-economic-relations

http://www.russia-direct.org/analysis/how-educational-exchanges-adjust-crisis-us-russia-relations

http://www.businessinsider.in/RANKED-The-worlds-20-strongest-militaries/1-United-States/slideshow/51930374.cms

Article originally published by Vandita on AnonHQ.com. Republished under Creative Commons license.