People in Damascus are tweeting about hearing large explosions... https://twitter.com/maramkasem/status/984959874894266369

That’s fucking terrifying

Why does this specific event lead you to the conclusion that a large scale war will break out? I may be so desensitized I dont see it but why doesnt Russian troops amassing near the Ukraine set off this fear? Or Russian troops amassing in Crimea? Why doesnt the fact US troops were found to be in Africa cause this reaction? Is there something special in Syria, something that would cause a larger scale war, that doesnt exist elsewhere?

Russia has said they would retaliate, remember? This is already pulling in multiple nations.

I've been worried about both Ukraine and Syria, both are signs of war ramping up and no longer being small proxy wars people fight over indirectly.

For the first time in my life I am starting to get scared WWIII has just came to fruition.

From the ashes comes the Phoenix. Have no fear.

Hey alert Trump just ordered strike on Syria.

yes

10 minutes ago with France and Uk. Strike is in progress. Is OP part of the conspiracy he posted about?!?

And since were in this sub. It appears the rooskies claim Brits were responsible for the gas attack. Shits crazy.

Op is Trump

“fall guy” “Trump” haha yeah probably for like good reason

Please don't. This is just another USA acts tough, saber rattles, blows some stuff up and then stops. Russia knew ahead this was coming and moved their own toys to safety.

This is the big stick in 'walk tall and carry a big stick'.

Does it really stop? Really?

No but it's not Nuclear war. I see this sentiment from folks and it's not WWIII.

I want to end the war state as much as anyone but I also want people to stop getting needlessly scared when I see the same saber rattling stuff that's been going on since...

The US has never this openly and brazenly and this directly attacked Syria before.

WWIII might not be a nuclear one (hopefully), but I also wouldn't say it doesn't seem to be about to start.

Global elite put a gun to Trump's head and made him read a prompter. Not a Trump supporter, but this shit is getting real.

Trump is the “global elite”. Always has been. Now he’s president as well.

I get flipped back and forth. What the hell can we trust these days? I'm under the view of, if media gives me an opinion, I immediately think it's bullshit and I should think the opposite. But I am a flawed human being

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAlIHsXcLY

I woke up today and the first thing I thought was, "Did World War 3 start yet?", it was as if an electric switch turned on. I looked out my window. calm morning. but chaotic night.

they'll be too preoccupied with trying to steal your supplies.

its scary being a 20 yr old and thinking about my generation AND YOUNGER generations getting called to battle. It will literally create an uprising within the people of the US. This is why they made a HUGE last effort to take our guns away.

Man, putting the pieces together as they are given to you is one crazy ride

I hope it does create an uprising. It's a war that doesn't even have to happen

I felt this way last night, I could feel it for some reason. I was freaking out.

i think you're right i bet there will be some crazy event that will scare everyone into another more complete form of one world govt. could be project blue beam for all i know haha.

i can see it now. the world is up in arms about to destroy itself, when an "all powerful" alien race comes forward to save humanity.

USA has been pushing a globalization agenda for decades.

I'm fairly confident this is all planned to jack up the price of oil as well as irradiate the existing oil fields to the point where the oil is not recoverable. The US has nearly doubled oil production in the past decade, with Saudi's and Russia also both relying heavily on the price of oil. It is in all three of their best interests to play along and scare up that oil price. We will also get the planet off fossil fuels simultaneously.

Sure there is probably more to it. I think all we can do now is appeal to the highest authority on a mass scale, God. Pray that he stops this war before it begins and causes tons of endless suffering over the greed and power-hungriness of our politicians and satanic leaders.

The outcome will undoubtably be tragic for humanity.

Better for the survivors, though, right? All said and done, I mean. Global warming, acidification of oceans, resource depletion, pollution, extinctions, etc etc etc. All taken care of if humanity is chopped down to under a billion for awhile, right?

Not really, no. If Russia fires a nuclear missile at the US or vice versa the deadman's switch that has been in place since the Cold War will trigger, meaning that the receiving target's payload will launch at the other. The resulting nuclear impact will result in ecological disaster. Hordes of refugees will attempt to pour into what countries remain and, due to the current trend of nationalism, will be met with resistance. Civil wars will break out between those who believe aid should be offered and those who do not want to let anyone in. What doesn't tear itself apart will remain at the mercy of whatever significant climate impact such an event will have wrought.

I disagree and I think the people in power do too. Conventional wars will be a positive contributor if the goal is reduction of population.

As for nuclear holocaust It ain't so bad...

The UN Chief has declared the Cold War back with a vengence.

Russia has stated there will be a retalliation.

It's going to be a very interesting 72 hours.

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."

Oh man.. this thought that lingered in the back of my head has now probably come to life.

Can some of you that don't normally pray

um

pray? Please?

Just try.

Because I don't know what the fuck is going on with the world.

I give up trying to make sense of anything.

I would have to say that it's pretty damn obvious that as fast as the former Soviet Union and then Russia tried to move away from any possibility of ever having to engage in a nuclear war with the US and it's western allies, they, in turn, only saw it as an opportunity to take even more steps towards having one with Russia that they believed they might have an even greater possibility of winning. The same thing is also true when it comes to China being deceptively lured into taking a more moderate posture until the day of their final reckoning comes.

The declared US policy of "Full Spectrum Dominance" is an open threat against every nation and a warning that they must live in subservience to the dictates of Washington or else see the US and it's so called 'allies" use every means at their disposal to destabilize, wreck, or ruin them.

We are essentially living in the last chapter of the fall of the Roman Empire in modern dress, replete with all of the corruption, decadence, debauchery, intrigues, and public spectacles and circuses to occupy the masses while things steadily fall apart all around them.

Of course it's staged. There's just a pile of crap to sort through to figure out what is going on.
There's endless, very dark conspiracies, but the truth in the end tends to be a lot more boring.

In this case the truth for the this political shitstorm is that we are at the precipice of world peace. (Or at least we were a year and a half ago.) The "deep-state" is another way of saying 'embedded neo-liberal power-structure'. They worked with Obama to start folding all of the rogue states into the global system and started taking out the last few "bogeymen" that were resisting (like Ghadaffi). They couldn't quite get it all done in time before he left office but that's OK because here comes Hillary, neo-liberal sweetheart, and here we are about to embrace world-peace and the world's first female President gets to usher it in. It is a fanatical neo-liberal wet-dream to have their policies validated and virtue-signaled like this at the same time. It is difficult to over-state how important this is to them - it validates who they are as people. Along Comes Trump.
Even if you think Trump is a 4d-chess-amazing-genius, there is no possible way everything going on it just his doing. (Pre-Syria, rewind the clock a month, shit has changed.) The deep-state had a lot of things lined up to happen so that Hillary just had to walk in and declare success (less she fuck it up.) Well now Trump walked in, and start knocking over the dominoes, and now Trump is getting credit from brining the world to unity.

This why Muh Russia is pushed so hard. To the deep-state it was like being on the Titanic - FULL REVERSE.
They cannot bear the thought of Trump getting credit for world peace when it could have been the first female President. And that's it. That's how petty it really is.

So now Russia needs to be enemy and we need to heat up the old cold war so that we don't get peace in Trump's time. I think they found enough dirt in the Mueller investigation that they got Trump to roll.

We must avoid this war at all costs

This is non-sense. I'm all about #SarinGasMyAss but "avoid war at all cost" is loser-mentality.

The outcome will [undoubtedly] be tragic for humanity.

This is just straight-up propaganda lies. Some land might be lost for use for a number of decades.
They rebuilt Hiroshima. Thousands and thousands of nuclear bombs have already been detonated.

Everyone is posting how this will not lead to WW3. I hope they are right. The thing about wars is that they tend to get out of control quickly.

They are always under control.

https://i.imgur.com/zxIv8m9.jpg