World War III – Syria was the Beginning

As a kid, I was fascinated by World War II. It was the quintessential and uncomplicated battle between good and evil. You knew who the good guys were, and they won.

What wasn’t there to like?

As I grew older, I began to understand the reasons why it started and when it started. And, there was a point when I asked myself:

What was it like to live at the beginning of such a massive world war?

I always wondered about that – what it was like to know that a world war was coming.

Unfortunately, now I know.

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Tipping Points

We human beings aren’t very good at understanding cause and effect. When something happens that we don’t like, we rarely look further than the immediately preceding event to explain why it happened. We blame the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand for World War I. We blame World War I on the rise of the Soviet Union. We blame the Soviet Union for the Cold War. We blame the Cold War for Vietnam. We blame everything on the Jews. And none of that is true. Having said that, there ARE moments in time in which single events play a more significant … Click here to read the rest…