The two blocks are steaming up to fight WWIII

The War can still be avoided and done through negotiations!

The many puzzle pieces arranged correctly should give a clear picture.

Yet, there are many details, nuances, and open questions.

Future history books may tell us that, by now, WWIII is already underway.

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Roughly, one party is the Free, democratic World; the other is the rest.

The Axis of Evil is trying to take over the West and divide it between them.

Democratic Allies want all dictatorships to turn into democracies and all democracies to start working more for the people than just the rich.

As always, in the end, the Free World will win.

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Who will be part of the Allies/Axis? Some are clear; some are not.

NATO will be the center of the Allies except for Turkey.

Biden formed an international coalition of 20+ countries to protect Israel against Iranian missiles and safeguard commercial traffic in the Red Sea.

I’m afraid, the US under Trump is more likely to join the Axis (Biden will stay), but I think the US military will stop that and make Trump disappear.

Countries in the Middle East will join the Allies (against Iranian nuclear tyranny), even if they hate Jews. Yet, once Israel and the US removed the Iranian nuclear threat, some of them, as dictatorships, may still join Iran.

[NB: The danger is not Iran using nuclear weapons. It can’t. The Holy Land would become inhabitable to everyone, and all Iran’s cities would, too. No, the problem is the same as with Putin. He was able to invade Ukraine because of, not with, its nuclear arsenal. It gives a kind of immunity.]

Yet Jordan may join ex-NATO’s Turkey if it fears the West will force its Royal House out and change the country into a majority-Palestinian State.

Israel and its faraway, scattered, true friends will be with the Allies.

China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Yemen are the core of the Axis.

You could call it BRICS Minus. The four original BRIC members are Brazil, Russia, India, and China, populous, fast-growing, poorer countries, plus the later arrival, South Africa (BRICS), and after that, four more: Egypt, Ethiopia, the UAE, and Iran. Turkey now also wants to join. From its conception, they were collectively anti-USA. And anti-Israel, of course.

A similar ominous group is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), again China, Russia, Iran, and India, this time with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan. You could call it the nuclear non-West plus. The larger the country, the more aggressive and anti-democratic they are, so it is no surprise that they lie to ‘advocate for the right of peoples to independently and democratically determine their political, social, and economic development and reaffirm their commitment to peacefully resolving differences and disputes through dialogue and consultations.’

All of Iran’s ‘Palestinian’ terrorist proxies will side with the Axis.

Some Antisemitic countries or leaders will want to join Iran, though they are technically democratic States and physically far away from the ME.

Many (partly) Antisemitic countries or leaders far away may still join the Allies because they love freedom more than they hate the Jews.

But some countries would rather chuck the Jews and democracy together.

Geographic areas most directly threatened by the Axis will join the Allies, like Japan, Europe, South Korea, Taiwan, Asia, and Australia.

It is now clear that the dictator-dominated UN and international ‘neutral’ organizations like the Red Cross are part of the problem.

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A grave threat is the Trojan horse of domestic terrorism within democratic nations, an unholy union of Marxists, violent Muslims, and Jew-haters.

A real problem is that so many Axis sympathizers abuse the West’s democratic freedoms and naivety to fight against equality and democracy from within the Free countries. Their lying is among the worst of terrorism. Almost funny is when those anti-Israel call the anti-Israel press pro-Israel. Part of the war effort must be to silence the voices of all anti-democrats.

Some countries off the center stage of WWIII might, motivated by greed and hunger for power, gorily try to conquer some neighboring countries.

To further complicate things, often, foreign leaders shout hostilities about Israel, which doesn’t indicate hostility toward the Jewish State. This is strictly meant for domestic consumption, to ‘calm’ hating constituents by sounding ‘politically correct,’ correct in their region, so Israel, ignore it!

The opposite takes place, too, publicly declaring support for Israel (to please the voters) while behind closed doors trying to arm-wrestle Israel.

Jews who criticize or trash Israel, Israel’s PM, Zionism, or Judaism belong to those groups despite being Jew-ish. Their Jewish claims play no role.

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Don’t lose sight of WWIII’s worthy goal, no matter how long the war lasts or how bloody it gets. Stay happy and optimistic, but stop being naïve.

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This post is a serious expansion of a previous post.

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