movie:world war iii

#paix, #guerres : les vies qui comptent et celles qui ne comptent pas
▻https://www.thenation.com/article/cold-war-killing-fields-paul-chamberlin

https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Immerwahr-DMN_ap_img.jpg

The Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, writing in the late 1980s, confirmed Orwell’s prediction: The Cold War had been a time of great perceived danger, yet it had also been a time of impressive international stability. For all the bluster, there had been no World War III. Weapons of stupefying destructive power had been built but never used. Perhaps, Gaddis suggested, we should understand the period not as the Cold War but as the Long Peace.

[...]

Paul Chamberlin’s eye-opening The Cold War’s Killing Fields offers us a precise, painful account of the Cold War as narrated from the Changchuns of the world rather than the Berlins. His focus is not on the capitals where grand strategies were spun, as in Gaddis’s telling, but on the blood-soaked locales where those strategies took their greatest toll. By Chamberlin’s calculations, more than 20 million people died in conflicts related to the Cold War. Of course, not every one of those conflicts had its origins in the superpower rivalry. But even when Washington and Moscow had little to do with starting a war, they nearly always had a hand in finishing it—by sending troops, advisers, weapons, or cash.

The implications of the Andrey Karlov assassination
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/implications-andrey-karlov-assassination-161219225337066.html

Although this assassination is a significant second blow to Turkish-Russian relations after the downing of the Russian jet, it is unlikely to impair these relations. Assessments of a World War III or analogies of Archduke Franz Ferdinand are also quite out of proportion.

If anything, it will increase intelligence and security partnership between the two countries. Yet, the incident impairs Ankara’s ability to diplomatically pressure Russia either on the Aleppo evacuation, or its aftermath, or the role of Iran in post-war Syria.

And finally, it opens up more extensive pressuring channels for Moscow to force Ankara to end any and all proxy relations in Syria, effectively cutting off Ankara from Aleppo or its aftermath.

#Russie #Turquie

Haim Saban: I’m Not Suggesting We Torture Muslims, but They Should Be Scrutinized - Jewish World News - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source
▻http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.687297

“I’m not suggesting we put Muslims through some kind of torture room to get them to admit they are or they’re not terrorists,” he is quoted as telling The Wrap in a story posted Wednesday, “but I am saying we should have more scrutiny.” Suggesting that some civil liberties may need to be suspended in the face of security threats, he asked rhetorically: “You want to be free and dead? I’d rather be not free and alive.”
"It’s a wake-up call. I fully believe we’re in a different kind of World War III," said Saban, who is a major supporter of Hillary Clinton in her bid for the White House. “We can’t afford [to have] the next president, basically the leader of the free world to be an amateur that has done nothing other than missing votes, or a clown, to be making the decisions as to how to react.”

US Army drafts blueprint for World War III - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/14/pers-o14.html

US Army drafts blueprint for World War III
14 October 2014

With US politicians and the American media engaged in an increasingly acrimonious debate over the strategy guiding the latest US war in the Middle East, the United States Army has unveiled a new document entitled the Army Operating Concept (AOC), which provides a “vision of future armed conflict” that has the most ominous implications. It is the latest in a series of documents in which the Pentagon has elaborated the underlying strategy of preventive war that was unveiled in 1992—that is, the use of war as a means of destroying potential geopolitical and economic rivals before they acquire sufficient power to block American domination of the globe.

#guerre_mondiale #rassurant

The Geopolitics of World War III
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-geopolitics-of-world-war-iii

The real reason Russia and Syria are being targeted right now. 

US imperialism, Ukraine and the danger of World War III - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/05/pers-m05.html

Ouh la la , les internationalistes, là, tout de suite les grands mots...

US imperialism, Ukraine and the danger of World War III
5 March 2014

Are we standing on the brink of a nuclear war? That is the question that everyone should be asking.

The US-backed coup in Ukraine has triggered the most dangerous international crisis since the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. American and European officials are denouncing Russia for sending troops into Crimea in response to the installation of an anti-Russian regime in Ukraine that has seized power through a coup d’état staged by fascist militia.

The Obama administration appears determined to escalate the confrontation with Moscow. Demanding a withdrawal of all Russian forces from Crimea and the Kremlin’s total acceptance of the new US-NATO puppet regime in Kiev, the US is calling for sanctions aimed at the complete economic isolation of Russia.

#ukraine #russie #troisième_guerre_mondiale