

Not wanting war doesn’t mean not instigating war. I don’t think either side wants war with the other but as time passes without a winner, one side or their proxies will take a calculated risk to win, and it is these types of moves that inch us closer and closer to war. Ultimately the missile was found to be Ukrainian but if it were an errant missile of Russia origins there would have been repercussions that, at the very least, drew both sides closer to war at a quicker pace. If you remember back a few months, when a missile landed in Poland, the pucker factor increased. As time goes on there will be a gradual escalation until someone makes a move with unintended consequences. History tells us that wars have always kind of started with a “slow burn”, such as we see Russia and Ukraine battling it out with materiel support from others. Many of us who grew up in the Cold War saw movies that tended to portray World War Three as a sudden event with an all-out nuclear exchange. The wise prepared, while the unwise went on without a care in the world. At each point in history before the world wars, there was “saber-rattling” and debate as to what was going to happen. The involvement of the US in the Balkan War in the 1990s was one of the first events that started the Russian elites to think NATO might spread east into former Soviet Republics, thus they saw NATO as a threat to the Russian homeland. The US got involved in both world wars and let’s not forget getting involved in the Balkan war in the 1990s. Historically, America cannot stay out of Modern European wars. Often misattributed to Albert Einstein is the quote: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” History seems to be rhyming It would seem insane to think we could do the same again with a different outcome. If you look at the history of both world wars in the 20th Century, the United States, by an act of Congress, declared the US neutral, but then we supplied only one side with arms, ammunition, and other supplies. This article is intended to cut through the bull manure and present a very logical case that we are marching to another pivotal point in history, what life on the home front may look like and what you should be doing to prepare. Politicians are also saying that they do not want war and war is unlikely, very much like they did in the United States before we entered both World War One and two.

Just like before World Wars One and Two, the war drums are beating louder and louder.
