Ignoring, ignorance and blame – Has WW3 already begun?

War is no longer defined by the strength of armory, troops or rockets, and at its worse nuclear bombs; it is the power of political decision making, religious infiltration, industrial influence and the power of technology, like the Internet, opening the new world of cyber war.

Let us go back to the year 1989; the GDR, former East Germany underwent a revolution of the people. “Wir sind das Volk!” or “We are the nation!” was shouted by thousands of people marching the streets of Dresden, a city in East Germany. A call for the end of the socialist regime and the end of being locked up in their country.

At that time a Russian officer was on duty in East Germany, a KGB man, the Soviet secret service during the communist regime, fully aware of the tense situation. This man was Vladimir Putin. In 1999, in an interview he remembered calling the representative of the military, but they replied that they couldn't do anything, as long as Moscow didn't give an order to intervene – And Moscow remained silent.

Soon after the reunion of East and West Germany, transforming the country to an entire democratic system, hence East Germany letting go of the socialist past, the Soviet Union also ceased to exist. The Soviet Union transformed to a new Russia, with a new flag, new type of leaders, and finally a man who cleaned Russia's streets from the rule of the Mafia controlling areas in the country during that transition.

And now that there was no Soviet Union anymore, no communist enemy, or capitalist enemy out of the eyes of Russia, the iron curtain fell, and movement started. Western companies invested in Russia, like now the German car manufacturer Volkswagen, and Russian business people invested in western Europe. More and more countries, formally belonging to the eastern block, started to join the EU, shrinking the number of direct allies to Russia drastically. There was no more buffer zone between western Europe and Russia like before. NATO was a defense alliance created to be ready in defense of any Soviet attack, with rockets and military forces and troops stationed in western Europe. But now that the cold war had ended, and there was no more a Soviet Union, but a friendly Russia, why was there still a need for the NATO? In Berlin on September 25, 2001, Vladimir Putin stated in the German parliament: “Today we can with certainty and definitively explain, the cold war is over.” and further he stated: “Today, we are on a new page in the book of history regarding our bilateral relations, and so we make our joint contribution to the building of the European house.”

That seems light-years away, the Vladimir Putin 2001 and now 2015, and we ask us why. Well, that speech did not echo any reactions from the western politics, maybe because one didn't take the man serious, observing Russia being in a disaster's situation, no longer looking like a world power. Nothing at that time pointed to the fact that Putin would be the President of the Russian Federation one day.

Putin's close ties with Germany helped him when he returned to Russia, to his home town of St Petersburg, where he was positioned under the mayor Anatoli Sobtschak, who was very much open to the west. It was there, where he got to know many former East German Agents.

And now as the President, he has sharpened and strengthened the national pride of the Russian people, cleaning the streets from the Mafia, opened up to the West, the West, accept the industry and business people have ignored him, played down the country. One of the big mistakes underlining this was, when Barack Obama degraded Russia to a “regional powr”, in March 2014. After that the situation derailed and escalated. The West was now a threat to Russia, and sadly the innocent had to suffer. Putin started to break contracts, annexed Crimea, allowed war in eastern Ukraine. The psychology behind this is simple: Who doesn't want to play with Putin, will also not play without him. Putin shows his power and the power to destroy. Sadly, the same as in some African countries, minorities suffer from consequences too. Russia tightened the laws for LGBT's, not being allowed to promote homosexuality, specially towards minors. Labeling open homosexuality as a western attitude. Suddenly the openness towards the West is replaced with a picture of the “bad West”, a subtle war has been sparked to life.

Basically we have to understand, that Russia feels threatened. Why does the West have the need to station rockets at Russia's border, like in Poland? The reason officially was to defend the West from the Arab world; with rockets pointed at Russia?

And again, religion takes another part in power. The Christian Orthodox church has come back in a huge wave, after being suppressed under the Soviet regime and communism. One of the reasons why the LGBT community in Russia is suffering, but Putin is playing along with them.

Basically again, the West has to understand, that Putin is a man on same eye level, and Russia a grown and strong country, a country that has learned to suffer and sacrifice. All the sanctions, and mainly those were pushed by the USA through Europe harm the business people. The car industry suffers, because ordinary Russians can't afford a car due to the weak Russian currency, so exports to Russia have dropped drastically. Russia had been outcast from G8, another slap into the face. Russia wants to be a part of the worlds decisions and politics, wants to be treated fair and invited equally. Russia can and will survive all these sanctions, as they are proud people, and know to get through tight times.

Now Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and President Hollande did this approach, at last. But it could still be late. The Russia Ukraine conflict is a real threat for Europe. Maybe it has an advantage that the German chancellor is a woman, a woman from former East Germany where Putin was stationed for many years, speaking German and Mrs. Merkel knowing the regime Mr. Putin came from and was risen and born.

Next to the artificially created East – West threat, is if we didn't learn from the past, on one hand technology has advanced to the bad sides of cyber crime, as seen on the attack on the Sony Film studios, and all the media pointed its fingers at North Korea, because of the film production “The Interview”, a comedian political movie about the assassination of Kim Jong un, the North Korean leader.

And pointing fingers at the same time and same direction is somehow a scheme within the main stream press, certainly influenced by western politics and governments. Freedom of press yes, but only to an extend that it serves the direction we are moving towards, said with sarcasm and truth in a mixer.

Just one example, where Russia was prosecuted and judged upon without any formal case research. “Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Open sources indicated that separatists in Ukraine were in control of a Buk missile launcher on 17 July and transported it from Donetsk to Snizhne. Information from social media sites indicated that Russian backed separatists had fired the missile. Directly after the crash, the leader of the Donbass separatists claimed responsibility for shooting down an Antonov An-26 plane, yet after it became clear that a civilian aircraft had been shot down, the separatists denied any involvement, and the post was taken down. The Ukrainian government stated the missile was launched by "Russian professionals and coordinated from Russia".” (Source Wikipedia)

The WW3 is maybe a combination out of Cyber war, Human Rights abuses and the distribution of power, not only in politics, but in religion and private enterprises; and all use the tool of power over the masses, and money to stay in power. In Africa the weakest suffer again. LGBT's are prosecuted, discriminated against and criminalized, giving the ordinary struggling African man a guilty group to shout, spit or stamp on. They call homosexuals a western phenomena, and I can't stop expressing over and over, that long time we know that homosexuality is a natural occurrence in more than 1500 species, so no decision based behavior, but a natural minority sexuality evolved in the living. They claim its western, but base it on their western import of religion, Christianity, like in Uganda. There is nothing African about Christianity.

The World War 3, is not a weapon of mass destruction falling over us, forcing us to hide in bunkers. Its a cancerous development entering our living rooms through our internet connected computer, reaching the brains of the believers when in church or mosque, temple or synagogue. It is a manipulation of our brains by one sided press information, pushed by governments, and through the industry, that dictates what we “need”, what is good for us or what not, where we have to spend our money on. WW3 is a war between brains, the ones creating and the others receiving and absorbing. Many religious figures even go one step further, by stating that its god that is punishing our human race with earthquakes, a result of homosexuality, hence immoral sexual behavior. The same as with HIV/AIDS or pandemics, all natural disasters, yet claimed to be sent by a god. God making war with the humans they claim he created and he so much loves, that he needs to torture them. I call that sado masochism for the brain.

So has WW3 begun, or are we just constantly at war, in what ever section we move in life? Maybe its more of an WW upgrade, where the psychological battle has been taken over by the internet, and secondly being in an era where the modern and technically and scientifically advanced world is clashing with that part of the world where the mind set and rule is based on medieval times. As on one hand “globalization” gifted us with freedom of trade and travel for more, better exchange, it may have also opened up the gates to the ones we didn't give much attention to, as geographically they were bundled and somehow isolated. Who thought about Sharia law in Europe last century? Hardly anybody. But now the moderate and extreme Muslims have found their way to the West, and when organized, created a threat to the liberal and free countries that follow secularism and democracy. And what makes it even more shocking, is that these terrorists know no mercy, they don't mind to die in their mission, as they have been taught to expect reward in the “heaven” their religion has told them about.

That is why the people of the world can't ignore what is happening. We are all in one boat. Ignorance is what is used by religion to stand above the law, humanity and human rights. WW3 is a term, that during the 80's was a scenery of Russia and America throwing atomic bombs at each other, destroying the world; dramatically featured in the movie “The day after”. Those were our fears then. Our enemy is no longer “a regime”, and I dare to say, that even Russia is not our enemy, just an unequally treated nation, that politicians and religion uses in their favor. Our problem is terrorism and extremism, religious extremism. But they praise the same book the moderate believers hold, with only one difference, they live the book literally, word by word, and the moderates just pick what suits them, blending out the extreme commands or actions stated within. As long as the religions don't find an agreement, on what should be followed in their books and what not, the moderates feed “unwillingly” those extremists.

By Thomas Fleckner