Classifying conflict as a world war is usually required to have several constituents. It should involve numerous disparate regions, have active participation of most of the world’s superpowers, and significant mobilization of resources from participating nations. Historically, there have been plenty of wars that meet these criteria. For wars prior to the first world war, the term wasn’t in widespread use. Post world war two, reluctance to use the term has likely stemmed from a denial of the horrific, and prolific, widespread violence that has continued throughout that period involving most of the world's major powers.
Traditional media has failed to inform the public about the full extent and nature of violent conflict, including the covert involvement of their nations. It gives a false sense of peace. Additionally, the remote nature of conflicts has also shielded people from the horrendous reality of what corporations, businesses, and governments are involved in.
Today, there are wars involving the use of explosive and kinetic materials being fought on at least three continents by nations including Russia, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Haiti, Somalia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, to name but a few. According to the Global Peace Index 2024, there are now 56 active conflicts underway worldwide. Save the Children estimate that 468 million children live in areas affected by armed conflict.
Major powers, including the USA and Britain, are actively involved in supplying armaments, training, intelligence, and financial support in at least two of the most prominent wars: Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Indeed, Britain recently hosted a visit from people the IPCC has issued arrest warrants for, and are making no protests about the current US president advocating for ethnic cleansing, to build a holiday resort no less. Perhaps this relates to connections between Trump, Mandelson, Israel, and Epstein (the deceased paedophile and sex trafficker for ‘the establishment’)?
There are also wars being fought online between pretty much every nation on the planet. They are no less costly, destructive, or dangerous. Currently, most state-sponsored, or sanctioned, cyber crimes are conducted for espionage, propaganda, or censorship. However, cyber warfare has the capacity to disable weapons, redirect missiles, disrupt power supplies, sabotage water treatment facilities, disable emergency services, shut down hospitals, and cut off food supplies.
The true cost of attacks already conducted is unlikely to be something any government wants to release into the public domain. However, it is estimated that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea acquired $1.3 billion in 2024 through cyberattacks that harnessed the power of AI. If a nation managed to acquire control of another nation's nuclear arsenal, or air defence systems, maybe it could hold that nation to ransom? Perhaps the people of that nation would have no idea, they’d just see their government doing something odd, like, breaking international law?
The cause for international conflict is often explained in complex terms, but the true reason is simple. The expansive interest of at least one identity group threatens the entrenched, or expansive, interest of at least one other. Basic ecology. The most fundamental fact driving all life is the compulsion for expansion—feed and breed. As a result, the main object of war-like behaviour is to prevent the feeding and breeding of the opposition. The former achieved by taking land and destroying infrastructure, the latter achieved by numerous techniques, but killing people and their children is one of the most effective.
All nature is in constant conflict, much of it is not immediately obvious. Plants poison each other underground, they strangle each other’s roots, and they deprive others of nutrients and water. Insect life is one of constant bloodshed (more correctly, haemolymph-shed). Birds are brutal. Mammals bully, maim, and murder. Chimpanzees have been known to go to war over territory, too, as the infamous four-year Gombe Chimpanzee War of the 1970s illustrates.
Thus, we see nature emerge consistently, throughout all living kingdoms, as a process of aggressive, destructive, and violent change, primarily fuelled by a banal drive to expand. Some humans have the capacity to understand this process and seek to prevent it from ruling their hearts and minds, others seem less self-aware. For example, Netanyahu openly proclaimed his desire to eradicate the Amalek while justifying the genocide in Gaza. It was in reference to a biblical story over two millennia old, and commandments written by men of the day suggesting a whole race had an in-born hatred that could not be defeated other than through annihilation. This is the very basis for apartheid and genocide, and a tragically psychopathic mirroring of the very same attitudes that preceded crimes committed against Jews.
Thankfully, many of us aren’t infantile, ideological extremists like the current president of Israel, Mileikowsky. A man who changed his name to Netanyahu, meaning god has given, or, to say it another way, gift from god. Contrast his insanity, which seems to have infested most Western nations and their media, with the profound wisdom of Rabi Aron Moss, who interprets the ancient story of the Amalek as follows:
No longer a foreign nation, today's Amalek is an internal enemy. We each have an Amalekite lurking within our very self. The inner Amalek is unholy cynicism. That little voice inside each of us that derides, belittles and attacks truth and goodness; our irrational tendency to mock people who act morally … these are the modern day Amalekites.
The etymological origin of Amalek is considered unknown. Maybe it stems from A-Malech-i, absent of Malachi; lacking an inner voice from the most high. Another possibility is that its root is Molech, a bloodthirsty god who demanded child sacrifice by burning; the Amolech being those from Molech—the sort of people who drop bombs on children, burning them to death.
People who have a fire lit inside them don’t need to kill children to prove their worth. They don’t take orders from any scripture nor any external source. They don’t act with beast-like obedience, devoid of conscience. Their authority is not subordinate to the desires of the flesh or the demands of nature.
Rabi Aron Moss goes on to recommend the killing of Amalekites, inner Amalekites, by the following means:
Be kind without an explanation. Love your fellow irrationally. Become the hero of your own inner battle, and free your captured soul ...
This is the only way to end the expansive appetite of the third world war as it sizes up new territories and bodies to infest.
https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/worst-conflict-affected-countries-to-be-a-child
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/267677/jewish/Wipe-Out-Amalek-Today.htm