Sleepwalking into World War III

I have resisted writing for the past 3 months ever since Russia invaded the Ukraine. It was just too disturbing. Covid wasn’t bad enough we needed a war too? War is ugly, cruel, terrible and barbaric. I have witnessed the genocide and the devastation like everyone else. I am sickened and distressed by it like everyone else. I see very little diplomacy to end this war. As Michael Goodwin writes in the New York Post, “Are we on the verge of sleepwalking into World War III?”

Christopher Clark in his book “The Sleepwalkers” describes how World War I began despite no European leader wanting war or thinking that war would result from their actions. War generally results from cumulative miscalculations. It is fair to say that Russia and Putin have totally miscalculated the Ukrainian resistance, Zelensky’s leadership, and the reaction from the West.

This war is truly senseless and has fiercely upset the New World Order. It actually has thrust us all back to the Old World Order when Russia was run by the Stalinists and the Khrushchevs. Europe had been at relative calm for the past 30 years. It was shattered by Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. READ MORE