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A "MESSENGER of God" who accurately predicted the major events leading up to World War 3 has sensationally revealed the exact day war will begin.

The self-proclaimed "supernatural being" has revealed to Daily Star Online his visions and study of the Bible and prophecies has resulted in a date on which the nuclear war will fall.

Clairvoyant Horacio Villegas envisioned Donald Trump becoming US president as far back as 2015, predicting he would become the illuminati king who will bring the world into WW3

Chillingly he also prophesied the leader would attack Syria which later happened following a chemical attack and that it would bring Russia, North Korea and China into the conflict.

And just days ago the Catholic follower, who lives in Texas, US, had a dream in which I saw balls of fire falling from the sky and hitting the Earth.

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He told how people everywhere were running around trying to hide from this destruction, and that: I believe these were symbolic of the nuclear missiles that will fall on cities and people throughout the world.

Now the truth-seeker, who claims God has kept me single, and with no children just to focus on his message to the people has come up with D-Day.

It will fall, he says, on the 100th anniversary of the visitation of Our Lady of Fatima the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus which is May 13.

This was the day, according to the Catholic faith, that Our Lady visited a village in Portugal to warn people that if her requests to convert Russia to the faith were not followed, God would use the country to wreak havoc on the world.

She warned: Russia will spread her errors throughout the world raising up wars and persecutions against the Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.

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It is said Our Lady visited the same village in Portugal on six occasions, and on her last visitation on October 13, 1917, she announced: The war is going to end, and the soldiers will soon return to their homes.

Horacio believes this October date to be the day World War 3 ends, but warns it will be too late for many.

He told us: The main message that people need to know in order be prepared is that between May 13th and October 13 2017, this war will occur and be over with much devastation, shock and death!

The truth-seeker told us that before that day, however, a major false flag will take place that will be very very devastating, and he also has a time range for this.

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He warns that this occasion which sees attacks carried out to spark conflicts based on false information will takes place between April 13 and May 13, and that as well as Syria, North Korea will also be involved.

He told us: The reason I feel the coming false flag might be during this Holy Week is because just as Christ suffered on a Good Friday at one time, the world is about to enter its Good Friday moment as well and it would fit in Gods timeline as to the start of this dark period in human period in human history that this war would be sparked near Good Friday 2017.

Horacio, who has published a series of books over the last 12 years on his claims, told Daily Star Online he believes the chemical attack in Syria was a false flag by the USA, adding that it just so happened to occur days after John McCain visited the area.

He added in his blog North Korea will be next on the USAs hit-list, saying: Russia is already being baited into war through Syria, just as the zionists were seeking and China will be baited through North Korea.

While tourists are free to visit the secretive state as part of strictly controlled tour groups, they are told to never take photos of soldiers by their handlers. These images taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue show the truth behind North Korean military service: a life of hard physical labour with the perks of visits to the nation's capital

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Many soldiers are used as a labor force to compensate for the ineffective North Korean economy, so the army is not only about military organization.

The Roman Catholic follower told Daily Star Online he has also used prophets in his studies, including Nostradamus, who was a French physician and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become widely famous.

Among Nostradamus prophecies is: Mabus will soon die, then will come, a horrible undoing of people and animals, at once one will see vengeance, one hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

Horacio says having long suspected Mabus might be Obama, it could now be the president of Syria, Assad, as there is now talk that Trump will target Assad for removal.

If Assad is bombed and killed, this could very much fulfil this prophecy because afterwards all hell would break loose.

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Despite publishing his books for over 10 years, Horatio told us he has been trying to get the word out (of WW3) for years, but most people doubted these things.

He added: Last September I even sent out copies of my books to Catholic bishops and cardinals in an attempt to warn them so that they could warn the people, and they ignored me too!

But, 15 months before Trump won, I wrote that Trump was being set up to win and would win in August of 2015.

No one believed me then, until it happened.

The revelation comes after Daily Star Online reported that a biblical prophecy claims the world will end once Syria's capital city of Daascus is destroyed.

Tensions between the USA, North Korea and Russia, have continued to rise, and just yesterday the US dropped a huge bomb on an ISIS tunnel target in Afghanistan.

It is widely reported thatKim Jong-un is preparing to launch a nuclear bomb on Saturday to mark its national Day of the Sun.

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DONALD Trump is preparing to send up to 150,000 troops into Syria in a move, it has been claimed.

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Blogger and theorist Mike Cernovich claims Trump's security advisor General H.R. McMaster was planning on sending as many as 150,000 to the region in his latest effort to stamp out the threat from ISIS.

But two sources within the White House reportedly told Eli Lake, a commentator for Bloomberg, the real number will be anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000.

Lake claims that Gen. McMaster has been pressing the US President to take decisive action and invade Syria in a massive show of force to both ISIS and Russia.

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He claims there are plans being discussed for a possible partnership with Kurdish freedom fighters in Syria who are battling to destroy the death-cult once and for all.

Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general who is close to McMaster, believes a ground war is the only way to defeat ISIS.

"The president wants to defeat ISIS, he wants to win, what he needs is a U.S.-led conventional coalition ground force that can take Raqqa and clean out the Euphrates River Valley of ISIS all the way to the Iraq border," he said.

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"Handwringing about U.S. ground troops in Syria was a fetish of the Obama administration. It's time to look honestly at a winning military strategy."

The news comes with international tensions at an all-time high.

This week Trump launched a massive airstrike on a Syrian airbase in response to a deadly chemical weapons strike believed to have been carried out by the country's president Bashar al-Assad.

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The airstrike enraged the international community with Russian leader Vladimir Putin calling on the UN to investigatethe president's actions.

Trump also launched a deadly airstrike on a massive group of ISIS fighters in Afghanistan on Friday.

The strike used the "Mother of all Bombs", the most powerful non-nuke in the world, and killed over 36 militants in an apparent show of force.

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The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack despite a warning from Russia not to get involved.

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The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack

In a shocking warning, Lake said: "It is now up to Trump to risk starting World War III in Syria by sending some 50,000 'boots on the ground' to start with.

"This number will only grow in direct proportion with the casualties that emerge as this proxy world war enters its final, most destructive phase."

Trumps troops have already been carrying out massive exercises near the DMZ in Korea as fears of a war in the east are also growing.

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THE Trump administration has admitted there is a "low level of trust" between the US and Russia after Rex Tillerson finally met Vladimir Putin for tense talks today.

The US Secretary of State spoke with the Russian President in the Kremlin to discuss the war in Syria.

They spoke for almost two hours before Tillerson said relations between Moscow and Washington are "at a low point" marked by serious distrust.

Despite Putin claiming yesterday that it was faked, Tillerson expressed his confidence that the US is right in its assessment that Assad used chemical weapons in a bombing attack last week.

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It prompted Trump to launch a barrage of Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian air base a move the Kremlin called an "unlawful attack".

And after fraught discussions today, Tillerson highlighted how dangerous the situation is for the whole world.

"There is a low level of trust between our countries," he said.

"The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship."

And Donald Trump added: "We're not getting along with Russia at all.

"Relations are at an all-time low".

The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack despite a warning from Russia not to get involved.

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The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed the seriousness even further.

He said the two countries "have differences" which are "potentially significant".

The development is the latest concession that the prospect of war is increasingly likely, after Kremlin officials warned relations are at their "worst in decades".

And it comes after North Korea's Kim Jong-un declared he will "join forces" with Syria's Bashar al-Assad to wage "war against the big powers".

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The Japanese Air Self Defence Force said fighter jets had been scrambled 1,168 times in the 12 months up to the end of March this year.

The overall figure is a sharp rise compared to the preceding 12 months when jets were deployed 873 times.

The previous high was 944 times back in 1984.

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Of the total, a record 851 jets were used to ward off Chinese planes that were close to Japanese air space, a rise of 280 compared to the previous 12 months.

Russian planes, mostly bombers, were also of a particular concern after flying from the north and coming close to Japan, with 301 incidents - a rise of 4.5 per cent.

The figures come amid Japanese fears China is increasing its military activity as it attempts to gain influence in the East China Sea and areas of the western Pacific ocean, mainly focused around the chain of islands stretching for 870 miles from the mainland south toward Taiwan.

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A H-IIA rocket, carrying a government's information gathering radar satellite, lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, Japan

Japan has also been building up military activity with its navy carrying out exercises in conjunction with the US near the Korean peninsula as global tensions with North Korea continue to grow.

The joint exercises are seen as a show of strength against the sabre-rattling of North Koreas dictator Kim Jong-un.

Reports that the North Korean leader was preparing to detonate a nuclear device have emerged overnight with the Voice of America reporting the country had plans to test a bomb buried in a tunnel.

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Journalists visiting North Korea have have been told to prepare for a "big and important event" on Thursday as Pyongyang marks the 105th birth anniversary of its founding president Kim Il Sung on April 15, North Korea's biggest national day called "Day of the Sun.

However, the military exercises by Japan will anger China, which has supported North Korea.

It has reacted by scrambling 25,000 more troops to the border with North Korea and put the country on nationwide alert.

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The extra troops are on top of the 150,000 which were mobilised on Sunday to the area.

Chinas armoured and mechanised infantry brigades in the Shandong, Zhejiang and Yunnan provinces have been given the go-ahead.

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Tensions regarding North Korea have threatened to boil over in recent weeks after US President Donald Trump promised to deal with the nation unilaterally should China not help and put pressure on their neighbour and ally.

The US President tweeted: "North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! USA.

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A CHILLING map shows nuclear war between Russia and the US would vapourise millions of Americans and turn half the country into an uninhabitable wasteland.

Nuclear conflict between the two military superpowers looms after US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said relations are at a low point.

He said:"The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship."

Vladimir Putin was reeling after Donald Trump bombed a Syrian airbase in revenge for a chemical attack.

The Russian president has been preparing his nation for nuclear war with new bunkers, bombs and space weapons, analysis shows.

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Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?

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The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun

Moscow is estimated to possess 4,490 nuclear warheads compared with 4,500 in the US.

Daily Star Online can reveal which US states would be vapourised if World War Three were to break out.

The black dots show where nuclear hell would be concentrated if Russia were to launch a preemptive strike with 2,000 warheads.

The purple dots show the regions that would be struck if Putin were to rain 500 nukes on the US.

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The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship.

The 2,000-warhead scenario assumes a first strike by the Russians.

The 500-warhead attack would be a retaliatory strike in the event the US launched first, thus limiting the Russian arsenal.

Both nations adopt a policy of mutually assured destruction meaning both sides would be completely annihilated in the event of a nuke war.

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There is a reason people fear nuclear war the weapons are now so powerful they could wipe out humanity. The bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima are tiny by comparison to the destructive power of modern nuclear weapons which are thought to be over 3000 times more powerful.

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The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, viewed from the ground.

Some states appear safer than others, with secluded, rural areas such as Nevada and Idaho deemed more favourable.

The east coast of the US would suffer the most casualties, with New York, Florida and Washington DC completely obliterated.

The map was created using data from FEMA and the National Resources Defense Council.

It comes as Donald Trump inadvertently revealed the exact location of his secret bomb shelter.

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Johnson praised Donald Trump for showing a resolve and willingness that has been sadly missing in the last few years.

The US battered the Al Shayrat airbase in Southeastern Homs in retaliation to a chemical weapons attack in which at least 80 people died horrific deaths.

We cannot miss this moment. It is time for Putin to face the truth about the tyrant he is still propping up

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Washington warned Syria more military strikes could follow if they continue to launch chemical attacks, but would prefer a diplomatic solution.

Johnson said: We cannot miss this moment. It is time for Putin to face the truth about the tyrant he is still propping up.

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And the Foreign Secretary was adamant critics carping and using the death of civilians in a gas attack to fire off personal insults were only emboldening the Russians and Assad.

Alex Salmond claimed the Foreign Secretary is in deep political trouble after pulling out of a meeting with Russia, in the wake of Trump's Syrian intervention.

Johnson responded: I am focussed on working with the US and getting the G7 behind the goal of ending this war and rebuilding Syria one Rex Tillerson will deliver for the whole of the G7 to Russia.

Russia has responded with fury, claiming the US is undermining Putins strategic efforts in the country.

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Speaking to The Sun, Johnson added: There is no doubt that the US action is a game changer in Syria.

We need to make it clear to Putin that the time to back Assad has gone. By continuing to support a man who gasses his own people he is damaging Russia further in the eyes of the world.

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He must now understand that Assad is now toxic in every sense. He is poisoning the innocent people of Syria with weapons that were banned 100 years ago. And he is poisoning the reputation of Russia.

A joint command centre of Russia, Iran and Islamist militant group Hezbollah warned America they would not allow further attacks on the Syrian regime.

The military chiefs declared in a joint statement: From now on we will respond with force to any breach of red lines and America knows our ability to respond well.

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A staunch ally of President Bashar al-Assad, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said he regarded the US action as "aggression against a sovereign nation" on a "made-up pretext.

And he savaged the cynical attempt to distract the world from civilian deaths in Iraq, according to spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Just hours after the strikes, he announced the attacks had seriously damaged ties between Washington and Moscow - which a spokesman claims was already in tatters.

Adding the missile strike broke international law, Russias foreign ministry also said it was obvious that the US strikes had been prepared before the chemical attack.

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Two US warships fired 59 cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean Sea at the Syrian airbase today following a poison gas attack in a rebel-held area on Tuesday.

At least 70 people, many of them children, were killed in the chemical attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun - but the Syrian government has denied it was behind the atrocity.

Now the US has launched its toughest direct action so far during Syria's six-year-old civil war.

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Trump ordered a massive military strike against a Syria

Washington's step will inflict major damage on US-Russia ties

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And the move has left Donald Trump facing his biggest foreign policy crisis since his inauguration, further heightening tension with Russia and Iran.

Announcing the attack, President Trump said: "Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behaviour have all failed and failed very dramatically.

US officials said they informed Russian forces ahead of the missile attacks and took great pains to avoid hitting Russian troops at the base.

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But Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has lashed out at the controversial decision - which Trump claims was in Americas vital national security interest.

Kremlin and pro-Kremlin lawmakers have since suggested the missile launch had dealt a significant blow to any hopes of doing business with Trump.

Mr Peskov said: Putin views the U.S. strikes on Syria as aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made-up up pretext.

"Washington's step will inflict major damage on US-Russia ties.

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He added Russia did not believe that Syria possessed chemical weapons and that the move would cause a serious obstacle to creating an international coalition to fight terrorism.

Russia is now expected to call for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the matter.

Iran also denounced the "destructive and dangerous" strike, the Students News Agency ISNA quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

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The spokesman added: Iran strongly condemns any such unilateral strikes ... Such measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria ... and will complicate the situation in Syria and the region.

However Britain gave its backing to the military action in thebeleagueredregion.

A government spokesman said: The UK government fully supports the U.S. action, which we believe was an appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack launched by the Syrian regime and is intended to deter further attacks.

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April 6 1917 = WW1 does April 6 2017 = WW3, chv?

The USA entered into World War I on April 6 1917, it looks like exactly 100 years later, on the same day, it might have entered WW3

what do you mean by that?

As if anyone seriously worries about the US bombing the Syrians. You do realize that using poison gas against civilians is considered a heinous war crime. Though if you want an analogy, if the US enters the Syrian War on one side it could tilt the war in that sides favor (presumably the Kurds and/or the Syrian insurgents, to the detriments of ISIS and the Syrians (backed by the Iranians and Russians). However there is minimal chance of this leading to something bigger (since as it is the Russians are not in a position to do much, and the Iranians dont want to totally alienate the rest of the Islamic world by supporting Assad after he goes around gassing people).

It does seriously hurt the Democratic party in the USA which invested much political capital in arguing that Trump is a Russian agent. It also might warn both Russia and North Korea that the mad man in the White House isnt to trusted to turn a blind eye to their aggression (unlike his super-cool risk-averting predecessor).

Akuperma, while its convenient to put all the bad guys on the same side, ISIS and the Syrians are opponents in this war, not allies. Hizbullah and the Russians are with Syrian regime aka Assad. ISIS is on the same side as Syrian rebels aka insurgents, and apparently the USA. If it sounds like a mess, thats because it is. As for the title of this thread, Al tiftach peh Its almost Pesach. May we be zoche to a true zman cheiruseinu!

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Russias unwavering support of Syria, even after the Chemicalattack, killingover 70, could draw the conclusion that war could be on the horizon.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov cited the opinion of the Russian military, which said the contamination may have been caused by damage to a rebel chemical weapons storage site.

You have heard the statement from the Russian Defense Ministry and I have nothing to add to the facts they stated. The Russian Federation and its military are continuing the operation to support the anti-terrorism operation and liberation of the country, which is being conducted by the Syrian armed forces,Peskov said.

The acting Russian envoy to the UN will voice this position during an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday, which was called following the chemical incident, Peskov added.

At least70 people, including 11 children, have been reported killed in the town of Khan Sheikhoun after a suspected chemical weapons attack on Tuesday morning. Rebels accused the Syrian government of bombing the town with chemical munitions.

The accusations have been backed by a number of Western governments.

Staffan de Mistura, UNs special envoy for Syria, said reliable evidence would be needed to confirm the alleged use of chemical weapons, let alone establish who was responsible for it.

We have no yet any official or reliable confirmation,he said on Wednesday.We will be stimulating all those who have the capacity of finding out technically what had happened.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini also said there was no evidence yet to draw any conclusion on what had happened in the Idlib governorate, but stated that the Syrian government heldprimary responsibilityfor the situation.

Amid the public condemnation of Damascus for the attack and Moscow and Tehran for their support of the Syrian government, some experts pointed out that the Syrian Army had no rational reason for using chemical weapons against rebels in Idlib.

Iran, an ally of Damascus, condemned on Wednesday any use of chemical weapons and offered help to the victims.

We are ready to bring the victims to Iran and help them,Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, as quoted by Tasnim news agency.

Earlier Turkey, an opponent and frequent critic of Damascus, reported treating dozens of victims of the alleged attack in hospitals located in the border province of Hatay, AP said.

The incident in Khan Sheikhoun happened days after Washington stated thatousting Syrian PresidentBashar Assad was no longer a priority for the US. The Assad must go premise was one of the cornerstones of Washingtons Syrian policy under Barack Obama. The Trump administration has been dismantling many of Obamas policies.

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World War 3 Could Start in This Ignored Region

World War 3 might be in the making and sooner than anyone expected. The potential epicenters of WW3 are multiplying with each passing week. The Middle East shows no signs of calming. The offensive against ISIS and other groups continues, while the U.S. and Russian superpowers may entertain sharply diverse ambitions over Syria and the future of the region.

As if the traditional WW3 hotspots werent enough, another is brewing again in Europe now. The U.K.s divorce from the European Union is assuming tones not unlike King Henry VIIIs abandonment of the Catholic Church. That fueled tensions for centuries between the two leading European empires of the day: England and Spainand Scotland.

Today, Gibraltar and Scotland could prove to be dangerous thorns against Londons plans. The match between Spain and the United Kingdom is back on in an ever more dangerous global geopolitical scenario. The two kingdoms have fought each other to dominate the seas since the 1500s.

Before Hitler tried to invade the U.K. in WW2, Spain tried in 1588, deploying a fleet of over 130 ships to attack the British Isles. Now, Brexit has refueled tensions and awakened old rivalries. Gibraltar is but four square miles in area, but it has served as a reminder of Britains ultimate win over Spain since the beginning of the 1700s. It remains a British overseas territory.

Yet, Gibraltar is surrounded by Spain. Once, Britain is out of the EU, it loses its privileged access to Gibraltar. Now, British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would follow in the footsteps of none other than Margaret Thatcher in the Falklands. The Iron Ladydeployed 30 ships and troops to force out Argentine occupiers from the archipelago located off the coast of Argentina in 1982.

The Falklands War, which started on April 2, 1982 lasting until July 14 of that year left 1,000 soldiers dead. A British Conservative MP urged PM May to show resolve to defend the people of Gibraltarmilitarily that is. So much for the European Union; if peace, the main reason why anyone still supports the EU, is frail there, what of the rest of the world?

Its unlikely that a British military intervention over Gibraltar could spark WW3, but it would create a situation that other powers, like Russia, could exploit. The U.K. will replace its EU ties with stronger ones to the United States. Thus, Gibraltar risks weakening NATO, a prospect dear to Russia and Vladimir Putin. WW3 between Russia and the United States does remain a possibility.

The CIA, much of Congress, and the mainstream media are sparing no effort to find links between Russia and Trump. In fact, theres no evidence whatsoever that Trump has a cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Thus, the risk of the U.S. and Russia reaching a major collision that could spark WW3 cannot be excluded.

If the Middle East and Eurasia (Russia extends across both Europe and Asia) arent enough, theres always North Korea. For the past few weeks, Kim Jong Un, the temperamental North Korean dictator, who allegedly had his own uncle executed for alleged treason, has been rattling his proverbial sword.

Indeed, World War 3 is in the making and its epicenter might occur in the Korean peninsula. North Korea has been on the U.S. naughty listas well as the Axis of Evilsince its formation. North Korea and the United States have not signed a formal peace. Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, there has been a perpetual state of tension.

Thats why there are at least 40,000 U.S. troops stationed near the border between North and South Korea at any one time. The fact that the war in Korea began so soon after the end of WW2 makes most people forget how big it was. Over a million U.S. soldiers took part and over 50,000 did not return. It was a big war.

In 1975, the war in Vietnam ended. To exploit Americas perceived lack of appetite for another fight in Asia, then North Korean President Kim il-Sung tried to persuade the Chinese to revive a North Korean war. A similar effort was rumored in the early 80s. Thus, North Korea has been itching for a confrontation with the United States and the West.

Now, more than at any other time, that scenario is reappearing. However, given the fact that North Korea has proven it has rockets able to reach Japannot to mention South Koreathe war risks being nuclear. It risks becoming the cradle of World War 3.

This scenario could materialize because of several factors. Not least of these is the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. The U.S. president has made no secret of his concerns about China, engaging in a provocative policy towards Beijing. Not since the days before Nixon traveled to the Chinese capital in 1972 to ease relations have the U.S. and the Chinese giant faced greater strain.

Chinas support against North Korea is essential. Its one of the few powers that has influence over Pyongyang. It can threaten to cut off imports of coal at any time, severely weakening what little is left of the North Korean economy and sources of currency.

Should Washington continue to pursue an aggressive path toward the Peoples Republic, Beijing could retaliate. North Korea presents an ideal blackmail scenario. China could refuse to play a favorable influence, that is one dissuading Dear Leader Kim Jong Un from pursuing his nuclear weapons ambitions.

Beijings diplomatic absence would create the conditions for the spark to rekindle the conflict. The spark could happen right in an area that has already served as the spark of international tensions. It is ironically known as the DMZ, or the demilitarized zone. Its actually a strip of land that has separated major land armies.

The Korean Peoples Democratic RepublicNorth Koreahas made every effort to present itself as a full-blown nuclear power. Military analysts believe North Korea could already have 20 nuclear weapons in its possession. In a few more years, having conducted various rockets capable of deploying nuclear warheads,North Korea could gain the ability to launch one of these nuclear tipped missiles against the United States itself. (Source: Tillerson: 20 years of failed diplomacy toward North Korea, USA Today, March 16, 2017.)

But it could hit American allies in the Pacific Oceanlike Japanand American interests even sooner. The direct presence of some 28,000 American troops in the DMZ has always made the area a virtual powder keg. Meanwhile, apart from China, Russia has interests as well by virtue of the fact, it too, borders North Korea.

North Korea, not unlike the Middle East, is where various geopolitical interests clash. The difference is that the DMZ and North Korea present a bigger headache for the United States than the Middle East. Thats because the only power in the latter region to have nuclear weapons is Israel, a staunch U.S. ally.

In the DMZ, U.S. interests have to confront three nuclear powersall of which are hostile: North Korea, China, and Russia. The Korean war has sometimes been called the Little World War. It was World War 3 by another name. It would be historically ironic for that war to re-ignite and acquire full WW3 status.

At that point, theres little point in speaking of economic collapse or financial crash. WW3s level of destruction could literally terminate the human race. Still despite those odds, world leaders appear to have lost all sense of logic, pushing the boundaries of logic with warmongering language and threats.

Getting back to Russia Ukraine, Russia poses well known risks. North Koreas ability to deploy nuclear warheads to the United States has not been proven. Meanwhile, there has been a relentless demonization of Vladimir Putin. Trump wants to Make America Great Again. Thus he cannot afford to allow Putin to gain an inch in Europe.

Rather than the peace with Putin, America may be heading straight into a war with his Russia. Washington is doing everything it can to prevent Europe and Russia from improving ties to the point that a free trade area can emerge within the Eurasian continent. Because Russia spans from Finland to China, free trade between the EU and Russia would enable a direct link to China.

In other words, Washington wants to prevent the rebirth of the Silk Route. Shifting the focus of world trade back to Europe and Asia via land also involves more energy exchanges. As Europe moves away from nuclear power, it needs to replace it with a reliable source. So-called clean energy is more hype than reality. Thus, the only alternative to coal remains natural gas.

Russia has plenty of it. One of the reasons why the U.S. may have chosen to overthrow the government in Ukraine in 2014, close to Russia, was to block the linking of the EU to Asia via the Russian land bridge. The prospect of Russia becoming the main supplier to meet the EUs energy needs would damage U.S. influence irreparably.

Moreover, in such a scenario, the U.S. dollars role as the main trade currency would end. That would make U.S. debt among the biggest in the world and much more difficult to manage. The U.S. economy wont just collapse; it will sink into a swamp. Thats why Russia, even though there is no longer a Communist Soviet Union, remains a concern.

After all, Americans never seem to wonder why Russia and the U.S. never stopped pointing nuclear tipped rockets against one another. Its because Russia has such wealth of resources and geographic reach, spanning from China to Europe, that it threatens Washingtons hold on world dominance.

Washingtons relations with Russia will always be problematic because Russia poses a constant threat to US ambitions to dominate the world. Geography, or rather geology, determines a countrys political and economic fate. Russia contains vast reserves of oil and natural gas. In turn, Europe needs the gas to heat its homes.

There is a tendency for Europe to reach for a more interdependent relationship with Russia. That could prove to be a nightmare for the United States. Thats why the threat of World War 3 lingers ever closer. The first few months of 2017 have only increased the volatility and the number of potential spark zones to launch WW3.

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