Here are several reasons why I strongly believe we are definitely headed towards a Third World War in the immediate future (that will likely include at least the limited use of thermo-nuclear weapons). Some of this is based on actual news reports. statements by world leaders, journalists, the Council on Foreign Relations and geo-political experts.. and some of it falls into the category of Conspiracy Theory. You be the judge.
In July 2015 Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons against NATO if the West intervened in the civil war in the Ukraine, as reported by all the major news agencies at the time. Take your pick, Reuters, the A.P, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC. Putin also threatened to invade the Baltics as well.
According to a recent book released by Marvin Kalb (a respected geo-political analyst and advisor to the Council on Foreign Relations), Vladimir Putin's stranglehold on Western Europe's supply of Russian natural gas supplies will be broken if the West completes it's cross Mediterranean gas pipeline from the Leviathan natural gas fields of Israel to Turkey.
Since the Russian intervention in Syria, Putin has staged the (nuclear capable) heavy guided missile cruise Moskava and a Typhoon Class nuclear sub in the Eastern Mediterranean very close to these Leviathan gas fields. Might be a coincidence, but I don't think so, and neither does Marvin Kalb.
Kalb goes on to say the Syrian/Iraqi refugee crisis in Western Europe has plunged the E.U. into political chaos. In March 2016 the foreign minister of Belgium announced NATO was not going to intervene on Turkey's behalf, if Russia and Turkey end up going to war over ISIS and Kurdish forces being driven into Turkey by the fighting in Syria and Iraq. If NATO balks at intervening in the Ukraine, Baltics, or Turkey, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would likely collapse overnight according to Kalb.
In June 2016 England will hold a referendum vote to withdraw from the European Union, (dubbed the Britexit vote by the press). This move could precipitate an exodus of European countries from the E.U. and plunge Europe into a period of unparalleled economic "turmoil and disaster", the likes of which have not been seen since the Second World War.
Iran and Hezbollah have also used the situation in Syria and Iraq to send thousands of Iranian Republican Guard troops and Hezbollah fighters into Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Hezbollah in particular has stockpiled nearly a hundred thousand modern Russian missiles on the border of Israel, which will now operate under the protection of Russian fighter aircraft and ECM facilities that are blocking NATO, Israeli and U.S. satellite and drone surveillance.
These aren't the old style short range "kytusha" rockets from the last Lebanon War a decade ago. Hezbollah is now in possession advanced GPS guided, super sonic speed, over the horizon cruise missiles, capable of targeting five Israeli cities, as well as ships in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
What is Israel going to do when Hezbollah rains these missiles down on Israeli territory ?! Go head to head with Russia on the ground and in the air ?! Not likely. Nuke Damascus ?! Way more likely.
Marvin Kalb and other analysts believe Vladimir Putin has positioned himself to take-down NATO, Western Europe and Israel. Kalb believes Putin would be "foolish" not to test NATO and Europe's resolve at this juncture.
In fact, a Russian bomber was shot down a month ago when it flew several miles into Turkish airspace. The French have also reported recently a Russian Typhoon nuclear sub was detected in the Bay of Biscayne off the coast of France. It seems Putin is already testing Europe's and NATO's resolve.
Here comes the Conspiracy Theory Part. Ask yourself why it's so important now (after decades of hostility) for the U.S. to normalize relations with Cuba ?! Don't you find it strange the U.S. can invade Grenada, Panama, Iraq, take out Moumar Kadaffi and Libiya, kill Ben Ladin in Pakistan, but for the last forty years we can't do anything about the Castro regime and Cuba ?!
Do you think our lack of resolve and inaction, as well as our urgent and sudden need to normalize relations with Cuba could have anything to do with any fissible material the Soviets probably left in Cuba when they pulled their missiles out during the Cuban Missile Crisis ??? You think ?!
Now you know one of the best kept secrets of the U.S. government. Cuba has tactical nukes people, and they always have had them. The one thing you don't want, is a nuclear capable hostile country on your doorstep if you are on the verge of a nuclear confrontation with Russia and China. Bad idea.
Now let's look at this thing called Jade Helm 15. Does anybody seriously believe it was a dress rehearsal for a military take-over of the United States ?! Lol. The U.S. Government says it was training combat troops for future deployment overseas.
Why were thousands of elite special forces troops dispersed all over the South Western United States In remote locations, far away from military bases and reservations where combat has always been simulated and combat training conducted in the past ?! Strange way to train troops, huh ?!
The answer is simple. Jade Helm 15 was not about training ground forces for combat deployment overseas. It was however a dress rehearsal, but not for that, or any military take-over either. My sources in the military tell me, it was a dress rehearsal for the dispersal of over a million U.S. ground forces away from military bases that will be targeted in a nuclear conflict.
The elite special forces used in Jade Helm 15 were in fact "pathfinder" units, preparing the ground for hundreds of thousands of follow-on troops that will be dispersed throughout the South Western United States in the case of an imminent nuclear attack. Just look at the radiological fall-out maps, and it's obvious why those special forces troops deployed where they did.
That's also why local and state law enforcement officials and emergency services personnel, as well as Homeland Security personnel took part in Jade Helm 15. Did you know radiological dose pens and meters have been issued to those personnel and agencies ?!
Sorry, but there is no plan to evacuate civilians from U.S. cities. The plan is to contain the civilian population in cities and shelter in place. You can imagine the hysteria and panic, if news of that plan ever got out.
Hence the unbelievable cover story of an impending U.N. invasion, or a martial law military take-over of America, replete with paranoid public objections from the governors of Texas and Colorado. It was all about disinformation and damage control. You can bet, the leaders of China and Russia know "exactly" what Jade Helm 15 was really about.
Given all the signs, (including reports by British intelligence the Saudis are buying nuclear missile warheads from Pakistan right now), I think it's reasonable to assume we are presently about three moves away from checkmate and a Nuclear Apocalypse.
Unfortunately the ex-KGB, Stalinist leader of Russia, sociopath and megalomaniac dictator, (our ally in the War on Terror?, who just announced recently Russia has met all its' goals in that regard), Vladimir Putin... is calling all the shots.