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World War III May Have Already Begun, by Dr. Joseph Sansone

World War III will be vastly different than previous wars, an asymmetric war, featuring things like massive food and energy shortages and biological warfare. It’s probably already begun. From Dr. Joseph Sansone at josephsansone.substack.com:

In the early stages of World War I and World War II, chances are that people didn’t know that those wars had started. A series of events began to unfold and eventually it was realized that they were irreversible events. Things took on a life of their own and the world was at war. In March of 2020 when the world decided to follow a blueprint for disaster and began coercing face masks, lockdowns (yes that is a prison term) and a year later Covid gene therapy shots, many may not had realized that this had been the beginning of World War III. Unfortunately, it appears to be the case.

World War III looks to be an asymmetrical nonlinear war. It entails psychological, economic, and biological warfare. It is a war to create a technocratic global government. It is a war to impart a sophisticated type of neo feudalism upon humanity. A totalitarian system designed for total control and to transform what it means to be human. This war, is a war against civilians. It is a war against the human race. It appears a war of extermination and of extinction. It is the execution of a plan to depopulate the planet, and in the process, corral humanity into sophisticated prisons called smart cities.

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Sabotage, terrorist and other diversionary attacks are a real risk for Russia (+addendum), by The Saker

Almost anyone can wage what’s called asymmetric warfare. From The Saker at thesaker.is:

Interesting news two days in a row.  First, the Russian MoD did conclude that the explosions at the Russian airfield in Crimea where the result of a diversionary operation (I use the term “diversionary” in the Russian sense of “diversiia” meaning sabotage/wrecking).  And today, the Russians have announced that they have arrested two employees of the Zaporozhiie nuclear plant (one guard and one engineer!) who were providing the Ukrainians with targeting coordinates and strike correction.  Now Russia is warning that a major strike on this nuclear plant would have catastrophic consequences.

My purpose today is not to discuss the situation around the ZNP, but to treat this as a tip of a much bigger iceberg.

So far, only my friend Andrei Martyanov has mentioned the very real risks of sabotage and/or terrorist attacks by Ukrainian diversionary groups, including the possible sabotage of the Moskva cruiser and the attack on the airfield in Crimea.  As usual, Andrei Martyanov is spot on.  What I want to do next is to expand a little on this topic in my favorite bullet-style format.

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Rabobank: “World War 3? The US Has Crossed A Red Line… But It’s Not The One They Think”, by Michael Every

Was Qassem’s Soleimani’s assassination a demonstration of the US’s asymmetric warfare capabilities? From Michael Every at Rabobank via zerohedge.com:

World War Three!” is trending on social media the day I return to work after two weeks off deliberately not reading any news for once: ironic given my reputation for being bearish about geopolitics. Markets, of course, have failed to react much: Middle-East bourses closed down 2-4% on Sunday, which is not exactly end of the world stuff; WTI futures are up around 3%, again not a real panic; while US 10-year yields were down from 1.94% intraday Thursday to 1.79% as of the Friday close – but the weak US ISM survey (47.2 headline; 46.8 new orders; 45.1 employment) could be to blame for that alone.

You know what? For once the markets are arguably right, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Markets think nothing that happens in the Middle East matters because central banks will have their backs regardless. That is patent nonsense, even if Ben Bernanke is muttering about not ruling out negative rates and further purchases of “private securities” during the next down-turn. If Iran launched a devastating missile attack on Saudi and UAE oil facilities, and means it this time; or on Tel Aviv and the nuclear reactor at Dimona; if it unleashed a wave of global terrorist attacks and assassinations from sleeper agents – none of those things are made better by a lower cost of borrowing. They aren’t even helped by (not) helicopter money, as Bernanke alludes to. Central banks can and would be funding a lot more defence spending immediately on a helicopter money basis in those scenarios, but much of the world economy would take a hit regardless – most so if the oil complex is hit. Sorry Central banks, but in those kind of scenarios–as Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted to US President Trump right before he then killed Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council head Qassem Suleimani–“You can’t do anything.” So in the case of the PBOC, keep lowering the reserve requirement ratio further to no real effect; or in the case of the FOMC, kidding yourself rates are on hold even as you do more and more NOT QE to keep the ship afloat for now.

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