Michael Janzen

If Israel believes the U.S. Government, who just assured Israel nuclear Iran not imminent, we may have just postponed the initiation of what looks like could become World War III.

It’s logical to assume that WWIII will happen someday, although there’s no telling what shape it will take. I suspect global nuclear war is no longer a likely possibility but I can definitely see someone setting off some smaller nukes. The hot spot this time is the Middle East, but this time the bigger problem is that it’s looking like everyone is taking sides.

• China, Russia, et al, want to trade with Iran have been essentially disregarding U.S. Sanctions against Iran.
• The U.S., Israel, the European Union, et al, want to block Iran from doing lots of things, like obtaining nuclear weapons.

Ignore the arguments for a moment and focus on the bigger problem… everyone is taking sides. This is a recipe for WWIII and with such a concentration of American military forces surrounding Iran, we should all be concerned that our foreign policies could be leading us toward war. A big war.

But for now it looks like the U.S. may be able to leverage a little bit of influence over Israel. I sure hope so because if Israel launches an attack against Iran and Iran fires back, we’re bound to be pulled into the mess, especially if China and Russia choose to jump in too.

Update: Iran begins loading fuel into their nuclear power plant.

A powder keg unlike anything we’ve seen in recent history is forming in the Middle East.

• With Russia’s help, Iran will turn-on their first nuclear reactor on August 21st (AFP and AlJazerra).
• Israel may attack to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
• Iran has sworn to respond it attacked (VOA).
• The American military has encircled Iran (U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afganistan).
• The U.S. Navy is harassing the Chinese (Reuters).
• Russia bans grain exports (BBC).
• The Chinese are getting ready for a fight (The Washington Times).
• China is selling off U.S. Government Bonds (Business Insider).

I know the fear mongers in the mass media are all over this, but when you cut through the noise it sure looks like a powder keg rocking in the back of and old horse-drawn wagon to me too. I just hope some dumb-ass doesn’t light a match.