The New Axis Powers and WW III

? Stephen H. Farra, PhD, LP., 2023.?All rights reserved.??

Before the outbreak of WWII, there was the formation of the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan).?Once (as a group) they felt strong enough, integrated enough, they launched “blitzkrieg” and “kamikaze raids”, and the bloodiest war of human history began.?By the end of the war, more than 60 million people were dead.?

We see a similar pattern forming and beginning to play out now.??China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran have begun to create the New Axis Powers – going into league with one another (“without limits”, according to Xi and Putin, the two most important players).??They have aligned themselves against the U.S. and the European/NATO states, and many other smaller and more neutral nation-states.?Russia (with one of the two largest collections of nuclear weapons on the planet) has just announced to the United States it is pulling out of the nuclear self-limiting and mutual inspection treaty known as START.??Also, according to the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Russia (for the first time in 30 years) is putting active tactical nuclear missiles onto its warships in the Baltic Sea.?

The world has just become a much more dangerous place.?We are moving toward WW III.??The difference from WW II is that all the biggest players now have nuclear weapons.?M.A.D. (“Mutual Assured Destruction”) has kept WW III from occurring for the last 70-plus years.??But, if the Chinese and/or Russians believe they can substantially neutralize much of the nuclear arsenal of the West through their E.M.P. (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) weapons and hypersonic first-strike weapons, it’s “game on.”?Raw power and world domination is the supreme value for the leaders of the New Axis Powers.?They have said so.??Hundreds of millions of deaths and a significantly poisoned environment will not deter them.??

We need much stronger and much more knowledgeable leadership in the United States and NATO states – right away, right now! ?“Red lines” must actually mean something and need to indicate more than Obama/Biden era bluster! ?These New Axis Powers need to respect/fear us, not laugh at us – which is what they are openly doing now.??If we want to save ourselves (and Planet Earth as we know it), we need to act purposefully and quickly.??We may not have much time left before the launch of the next, deadliest – and perhaps final – World War!???

** A reader accused me of being part of the Military Industrial Complex (M.I.C.), and simply pushing for new weapons - for financial reasons. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am as suspicious of our own M.I.C. as most others who keep up with the news. We do not so much need new weapons as we need new leaders - who are not demented, "out to lunch", or "asleep at the switch"!???We need to become active instead of merely reactive toward the aggressive moves of the New Axis Powers. Like radioactive nuclear fall-out, I believe we have a relatively short time before catastrophic consequences begin to rain down upon our heads if do not get new leaders - very soon!