Trick or threat

I'm just throwing this out in the open here. The way the world's going on right now is like a combination of the periods prior to both WW1 and WW2.

In summary:
1) Nose-diving economy
2) Increased armament activity worldwide
3) Big sports event occuring in Germany (ok so this last one doesn't prove anything)

Not really in summary:
Countries have armed themselves excessively since forever, especially after the last World War. This includes putting in place mandatory military service, developing of new weapons technology, the trading of weapons technology and others. But a lot of these effort are going nowhere.

Weaponries get obsolete and are replaced with more sophisticated ones, soldiers get old and are replaced by younger ones, and for what?

Governments spend perhaps trillions of dollars in the last few decades building up their defence only for the "investment" to just be written off year after year. It is a big waste of money. At some point, some of them would want to see some returns of their investment.

In a down-spiralling global economy, the US is leading the race for acquiring raw commodity such as oil, forcibly or not, knowing that the value of the dollar is closely pegged to the quantity of oil being circulated worldwide in order to continue forcing the value of their currency to be maintained at a high level.

Such is the arrogance of the Americans, they always have to take something that is existing, change the rules, change the name, Americanize the whole thing and make themselves world champions. They absolutely have to win at all cost.

Right now, from the east to the west, there is a tit for tat military aggression between Israel, Palestine and Lebanon with some countries like USA, Russia, Iran and Syria watching on the side just waiting to jump in, India is blaming Pakistan for allowing troublemakers to operate from within to attack it, Iran wants to be a nuclear-power and are not backing down from their nuclear ambition, anarchy in Iraq and Afghanistan, northeast Asian countries are getting nervous about North Korea's recent nuclear tests, Australia wants to be a world police, there is a growing anti-American leftist movement in Latin America led by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, long-standing civil wars in Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan in Africa and so on and so forth.

One thing all these problems have in common is USA.

It seems that the only thing USA is good at is being nosey about other countries' business. To them, if it affects them, it is their problem. It doesn't matter if each country is sovereign in its own rights.

It's not suprprising if World War 3 should start soon since many countries just cannot wait to show off who's got the biggest muscles for the right to exist. This could also provide a stop gap measure to ease the unemployment status in each country, just like the period between WW1 and WW2 had been.

People get employed to build more weaponries and military gear for the armies and men get themselves killed just because some power-crazy heads of states decide as such.

The world map

Should it occur, there would be two sides, as I've mentioned in an earlier entry, with both sides claiming the other is evil. It'd be complete madness.

Team USA roster
USA
Canada
Mexico
European Union
Israel
India
Japan
South Korea
Australia
The Philippines

Team New Order
Venezuela
Ecuador
Bolivia
Cuba
Lebanon
Palestine
Iran
Russia
China
North Korea

It's very real and very scary. More countries would be dragged in on both sides and the reality of a nuclear war cannot be too far away. Each side has its own nuclear arsenal.

All the innocent people of the world can do is stand back, some will get caught in the crossfire, and wait for the first party to unleash nuclear technology.

Hopefully, it doesn't happen. Hopefully, what I had just written is only a fragment of my imagination.