WORLD AT WAR: 2.19.22 - World War 3 This Week?

World War 3 This Week? Now We Are Being Told That Russia Could Invade Ukraine “On Wednesday” - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/world-war-3-this-week-now-we-are-being-told-that-russia-could-invade-ukraine-on-wednesday/ Are you ready for war? After four years of peace with Russiaunder President Trump, it has taken Joe Biden and his all-star team of warmongers just over a year to get us to the brink of World War 3. Americans have grown accustomed to wars that only have consequences on the other side of the world, but a war with Russiawould be completely different. Russia is not Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. The Russians can fight back, and they would not be afraid to fight dirty. If the American people truly understood what was at stake, they would be flooding the streets in protest rightnow. One of the things that history has taught us is that you don’t mess with the Russians, and every empire that has tried has ended up paying a very great price. Unfortunately, the Biden administration seems absolutely determined to drag us into a conflictthat won’t have any winners. It would be so easy to avoid war, but Biden and his minions refuse to compromise. Instead, they just keep provoking the Russians, and they keep insisting that a Russianinvasion of Ukraine is imminent. In fact, it is being reported that the U.S. has “credible information” that the Russians could launch an invasion of Ukraine as soon as Wednesday… Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine as early as next Wednesday, February 16 according to respected German publication, Der Spiegel. American intelligence services briefed NATO allies of a possible impending Russian invasion against its western neighbor in a series of secret briefings. The Secret Service, CIA and the Pentagon are said to have received credible information that was passed along to the federal government, reports the German newspaper. While it is certainly true that both sides continue to move toward the brink of war, I do not believe that the Russians will invade Ukraine this week. In fact, based on the information that I am getting I do not believe that it will happen during the month of February at all. But Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan seems to be convinced otherwise. In fact, he continues to insist that an invasion is likely to take place “very soon”… President Joe Biden’s top national security aide warned again Sunday that the Russian military has the capacity to invade Ukraine “this week” under the pretext of a “falseflag” operation portraying Ukrainians as the aggressors. “The way they have built up their forces, the way they have maneuvered things in place, makes it a distinct possibility there will be major military action very soon,” NationalSecurity Advisor Jake Sullivan said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Sullivan also told CNN what he thinks a Russian invasion of Ukraine would look like… “If there is a military invasion of Ukraine by Russia, it’s likely to begin with a significant barrage of missiles and bomb attacks,” Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of theUnion” program. “It would then be followed by an onslaught of a ground force moving across the Ukrainian frontier,” he said, adding that there would be a substantial number of civilianscaught in the crossfire. He is envisioning a conventional ground invasion, but if the Russians actually pulled the trigger I think that they would conduct a more surgical operation designed to takecontrol of Kiev as rapidly as possible. But of course I could be wrong about that. In any event, I believe that it is so important for everyone to become very familiar with Jake Sullivan. Since Joe Biden is not exactly all there mentally at this point,Sullivan has more influence than a national security adviser would normally have, and that is not a good thing. Sullivan is a “triple threat”. He is a warmonger, he is horribly incompetent, and he is deeply corrupt. And that is a very dangerous combination. His partner in incompetence, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is warning the Russians that there will be a “resolute, massive, and united transatlantic response” if theRussians decide to move in… With the U.S. and other countries withdrawing embassy staff from Kyiv amid fears a war could erupt at any time, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned his Russian counterpartSaturday that an invasion of Ukraine “would result in a resolute, massive, and united transatlantic response.” Blinken appears to be referring to sanctions, but at this stage the Russians are telling us that they don’t really care about more sanctions… Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t give a s**t’ about the risk of Western sanctions if his country were to invade Ukraine, Russia’s ambassador to Sweden said as US staff began withdrawingfrom eastern Ukraine amid warnings of an ‘imminent’ invasion. In an outspoken interview yesterday, Viktor Tatarintsev told the country’s Aftonbladet newspaper that ‘the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian responsewill be’. What the Russians really want is for Ukraine not to join NATO. And considering the fact that having Ukraine in NATO is not in the best interests of U.S. national security, we shouldn’t want Ukraine in NATO either. As Tulsi Gabbard just told Tucker Carlson, Russia would agree not to invade Ukraine if the U.S. would assure Russia that Ukraine is not going to be given NATO membership… The Russians don’t want NATO forces and NATO missiles close to their borders. Just like we wouldn’t want Russians forces and Russian missiles in Mexico and Canada. But the Biden administration has made it quite clear that there will be no compromises. Of course, the Russians shouldn’t invade Ukraine over this, but after being lied to so many times by U.S. officials, I can understand that they would be quite alarmed tohave western missiles just minutes from Moscow. And it would be really silly for us to go to war with Russia over the status of Ukraine when some really basic negotiations could settle this whole crisis in about 10 minutes. Unfortunately, a war is becoming more likely with each passing day. In fact, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Russians have already begun “hybrid war” operations inside Ukraine… Ukrainian officials say that Russia, which has positioned more than 100,000 troops around three sides of Ukraine, is stepping up a destabilization campaign involving cyberattacks,economic disruption and a new tactic: hundreds of fake bomb threats. Russian forces and their proxies already control portions of Ukraine and frequent skirmish with government forces. The aim of Moscow’s intensifying hybrid campaign, Ukrainianofficials say, is to weaken their country and sow panic, potentially provoking discontent and protests of the kind Russia fomented in eastern Ukraine in 2014 to justify its interventions there. U.S. and U.K. officials said last month they uncovered coup plotsintended to install a puppet pro-Russian government. The U.S. continues to escalate matters as well. On Saturday, it was being reported that the Russians had to chase a U.S. nuclear submarine out of their territorial waters… A Russian naval vessel chased away a US submarine in Russian waters in the Pacific after the submarine ignored a Russian order to surface, Interfax news agency cited thedefense ministry as saying on Saturday. The Russian ministry called in the US defense attache after complaining that the submarine had entered its waters, the RIA news agency reported. Tensions between Moscowand Washington are already high over a Russian military buildup near Ukraine. For years, I have been warning that a conflict between the United States and Russia was coming. But I don’t want it to happen. Nobody should want it to happen. Because the Russians have more than 1,000 different ways that they could hurt us, and a war with Russia would very likely go nuclear at some point. ----------------------- Placating Putin � Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2022/02/14/placating-putin/ Many Bible prophecy students of the pre-trib sort have carefully watched Vladimir Putin over the past years. The Russian president�s demeanor, many believe, demonstratesthat this man of relatively short stature exhibits and presents a much larger image, in possible prophetic terms. I�m referring, of course, to the belief by many that the dictator, a former KGB operative, could be the Gog of Ezekiel 38-39. That is, Mr. Putin could be the leader whowill be possessed by the Gog spirit or demon who will think the evil thought described by the prophet Ezekiel. �That Putin might be the leader who will lead the Gog-Magog coalition of nations prophesied to invade toward Israel. While I find this an interesting, even fascinating prospect, I�m not prepared to totally commit to a definite postulation in that regard. However, thinking on these strange and troubling times during which we are traversing times of fortified prophetic progression, a term my partner in raptureready.com, ToddStrandberg, has coined, the possibility of Putin filling that prophetic role is certainly worthy of consideration. The lateness of these closing days of the age, while Russia threatens to invade Ukraine, brings into focus such prophecies by Jesus Himself as the following. �And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.� (Matt 24: 6) and �And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring.� (Lk 21:25) With Putin bringing more than one hundred thousand troops and military equipment to the borders of Ukraine and his apparently wanting to invade to bring that former Sovietbloc nation again into Russia�s orb, the rumors of war are rampant. This is perhaps the greatest threat of regional and even world-wide war since the fall of the Soviet Union and the close of the cold war. With the world-wide protests across Europe and the Canadian/American truckers� massive protests, and with despot-like leaders facing them and not knowing how to handle itall, the nations are in perplexity and the people are likened to seas and waves roaring. So, it is more than understandable why many Bible prophecy observers of the times might strongly point to Putin as the Gog possessed leader of that invading force predictedby Ezekiel. All stage-setting seems almost complete for these things to begin to come to pass. This American presidential administration has demonstrated weakness in practically every endeavor, in terms of dealing with international problems. They have dealt in evilharshness and dogged determination in confronting American patriots �the prime example being the January 6 peaceful protesters who were seduced into a march on the capitol, etc., and set up by the FBI and others as terrorists, imp my humble opinion. But infacing off with Russia and China �the truly great threats against America� this president has been, as the overused word indicates, feckless. While in SkyWatch TV studios last week doing a number of programs for Pete Garcia�s and my book The Disappearing: Future Events That Will Rock the World, I was asked thequestion: Do you think Putin will invade Ukraine? My answer at that time, just this past week, was, �I really don�t think Putin really wants to invade. He has things going his way without invasion.� My opinion has changed in that short period of time. His bringing more troops and military assets to Ukraine�s borders isn�t the movement of one who is bluffing. The factthat he won�t talk with American officials, and barely will talk with this president is indication enough to know that he intends to fully act out the role of the Russian bear. I would now be surprised if he doesn�t invade. This is due to placating him atevery turn and threatening only sanctions of the economic sort. If Putin were to deliberately attack a NATO nation, then there would be confrontation from the western alliance. But Mr. Biden observably hasn�t the nerve �or whatsoeverit takes� to unilaterally face down this voracious dictator. There is increasing talk among some observers that Gog is not Putin or a Russian leader but very possibly the Turkish leader Erdogan (the most likely) or a future Turkishleader and that Magog is Turkey, not Russia. While we must never rule out possibilities so far as details are concerned, I can�t, after years of studying the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog matters, conclude that the headof the coalition against Israel will be other than Russia. It looks very much like Vladimir Putin might well be the man who could lead such a coalition. His appetite for conquest is building, and a time might come soon when Israel and its vast oil and gasreserves, a threat to Putin�s desire to be the lone supplier of Europe and other regions, might give him that evil thought that puts hooks in the jaws of Gog. By placating this ruthless Russian leader, Biden and company just might be fueling the fires of Putin�s appetite for such conquest as Ezekiel ascribes to the one who willbe Gog. ------------------------------- If Israel strikes Iran, what happens next? � Adam Hoffman - https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-696367 As negotiations between the world powers and Iran in Vienna continue and reportedly enter their �final stage,� many in the Middle East � but also in Washington and Europeancapitals � hold their breath to see if a return to a nuclear deal with Iran is possible. Israel is also closely following developments in Vienna. Accepting the fact that some agreement with Iran is almost certainly on the way, Prime Minister Naftali Bennettrecently said that �the agreement and what appears to be its conditions will damage the ability to take on [Iran�s] nuclear program.� Yet, if the talks in Vienna fail to produce an agreement and Iran is free to pursue its nuclear program (in addition to its existing malign regional activities, includingagainst Israeli targets), the prospects for an Israeli strike against Iran become much higher. Worrying that a deal with Iran won�t be able to stop the country from developing a nuclear weapon, Israel already signaled its readiness to strike Iran. Bennett stated that �Israel will continue to ensure its full freedom of operation in any place and at any time, with no limitations,� and incoming IAF commander Maj.-Gen. Tomer Bar said that the Israel Air Force is ready to attack Iran �tomorrow.� If Israel does indeed attack Iran, as Israeli officials have increasingly implied might happen, what impact would it have on the Middle East? How would the region be anydifferent after such a development? These questions may be hypothetical now, but they could very well turn out to be reality tomorrow. TO ANSWER them, Wikistrat, a crowdsourced consultancy, ran a weeklong simulation from January 24 to 31, 2022, while the talks in Vienna were still taking place. To explore how an Israeli strike would impact the region�s stability, the simulation focused on the five actors that were considered the most significant in the Gulf region:Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States, China and Russia. The simulation included 31 experts from 13 countries and focused on three scenarios: a successful Israeli strike on Iran, a failed strike, and a partially successful strike. Discussions in the simulation produced a few key insights, which observers of developments in the region may want to keep in mind as they try to make sense of the MiddleEast in the next few years. First, the experts argued that in the years after an Israeli military strike (regardless of its results), the Middle East will enter the nuclear proliferation phase, whichwill include not only Israel but also Iran and possibly Saudi Arabia. An Israeli strike will embolden the Iran regime�s desire to have a nuclear weapon, viewing it � much like North Korea � as a guarantee against future attacks. For its part, fearing an Iranian nuclear retaliation against it, Saudi Arabia will also seek to develop its own nuclear program. This is based on the participants� assessmentthat a failed Israeli strike would drive the Saudi leadership to move forward as quickly as possible with its own nuclear program. A successful strike could serve as a catalyst to the Saudi nuclear program, encouraging Saudi decision-makers to leverage theattack and to catch up with the Iranian nuclear program. How would an Israeli strike against Iran impact Israel? A successful strike could lead to a Saudi-Israeli normalization. Some of the experts argued that a successful Israeli strike might cause Mohammed bin Salman, as king, tonormalize relations with Israel, in the expectation that the entrenched anti-Iranian sentiment in Saudi Arabia would outweigh any backlash against normalization. However, a failed strike could have a negative effect on Israel�s regional position, as Israel was perceived until then as a strong partner to the Gulf states on securityaffairs and a critical partner for confronting Iran. The experts assessed that if Israel failed to deliver on confronting Iran by failing to destroy its nuclear facilities, Saudi Arabia would be less inclined to engage with it. While a nuclear deal between the US, other world powers and Iran seems almost certain at this point, the stakes for an unchecked nuclear Iran are higher than ever. If Israel feels compelled to act alone to stop a nuclear Iran, a completely different geopolitical reality could emerge in the Middle East. A simulation examining what happens when Israel strikes Iran, featuring some of the world�s top Iran and Middle East experts, gives us a look at the year after such a development. Such a strike would impact Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and the United States � but also Israel�s regional position. ------------------------------------------- It�s �Game Time�: Russian Forces Move Into Attack PositionAs �Negotiations� Fail - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/its-game-time-russian-forces-move-into-attack-position-as-negotiations-fail/ How is it possible that we are suddenly on the precipice of global war? During the Cold War days, we could always count on the fact that there were competent foreign policyprofessionals in the United States and in Europe that could simultaneously look out for our interests but also prevent a nuclear war with Russia from happening. Because if a nuclear war were to erupt, nobody wins. Unfortunately, the landscape is completelydifferent here in 2022. Instead of competent foreign policy professionals running the show, we have got a bunch of clueless hacks that seem to have absolutely no idea what they are doing. I wish that I could be more optimistic that a diplomatic way out ofthis crisis will be found, but I can�t. On Monday, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson both agreed that a �window for diplomacy� remains open� Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and US President Joe Biden agreed in a call today that a �crucial window for diplomacy� remained open over the crisis in Ukraine, DowningStreet has said. I am glad that they believe that, but in order for diplomacy to work you must be willing to negotiate. Up to this point, the attitude of the Biden administration has been that the Russians will get nothing that they want and the U.S. and NATO will get everything that theywant. Needless to say, that isn�t diplomacy. On the other side, the Russians are clearly threatening to invade Ukraine, but they are also indicating that they are still open to talks for a limited period of time� Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that talks �can�t go on indefinitely, but I would suggest to continue and expand them at this stage.� The Russians consider Ukraine to be part of Russia. They always have. So the idea of having Ukraine join NATO and having western missiles just minutes from Moscow is absolutely unthinkable to the leadership in the Kremlin. We need to understand that, but we also don�t have to give the Russians everything that they are demanding in order to avoid war. Several workable frameworks for peace havebeen put forward, and that includes one that has been drafted by former policymakers on both sides. This crisis could be resolved so easily, but the Biden administration has decided that the Russians will get nothing and be happy with it. Either the Biden administration believes that the Russians are bluffing, which would be a colossal mistake, or the Biden administration actually wants a war in Europe. Let us hope that the Biden administration has a sudden change of heart, because time is running out. According to CNN, Russian forces continue to pour into the region� The build-up of Russian forces close to the Ukrainian border continues apace, with everything from submarines and amphibious landing ships in the Black Sea to short-rangeballistic missiles, tanks and howitzers around Ukraine�s northeastern edges. CNN has geolocated and authenticated social media videos of these movements � though there are likely many more that are not being observed. And it is being reported that some Russian units have left their staging areas and have now advanced to �attack positions�� Russia has moved some long-range artillery and rocket launchers into firing position, threatening Ukraine, according to a U.S. official. Some Russian units have left their assembly areas � the bumper-to-bumper formations seen in satellite photos � and are beginning to move into �attack positions,� accordingto the official. This movement marks a change since Sunday, when some of the units had left the assembly areas but had not yet taken what could be viewed as attack positions. If the Russians actually pull the trigger, they will hit really fast and really hard. Meanwhile, a war reporter living in Ukraine says that he is getting the feeling that it is �game time�� �During the past, I�ve used the analogy of a Florida town before a hurricane to kind of describe the mood here� as people try to decide what they should do, should theyleave or stay or, in this case, take up arms and fight,� he continued. Peterson said it is �incredible to watch� the nation prepare for a Russian attack, saying it�s now �game time.� Let us hope and pray that it is not �game time�, because once war starts there will be no going back. Unfortunately, things just get even more tense with each passing day. On Monday, we learned that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ordered the U.S. embassy in Kievto be closed down due to invasion fears� Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday ordered the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv closed and directed embassy staff to relocate to Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, citing the �dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces� on Ukraine�s border. �We are in the process of temporarily relocating our Embassy operations in Ukraine from our Embassy in Kyiv to Lviv due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russianforces,� Blinken said in a statement. And the mayor of Kiev created quite a stir when he publicly admitted that he had a plan to evacuate three million residents from the city� Ukraine�s president and military chiefs are presenting a fa�ade of skepticism over any possible Russian invasion. This has been reflected in the upbeat mood on the streetsof Kyiv, However, on Monday, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko introduced a jarring note with an announcement that he had a plan ready for the evacuation of 3 million city dwellers. But despite everything that you just read, I don�t think that an invasion will happen this month. I think that the Russians are willing to negotiate for at least a couple more weeks. Many have suggested that a Russian invasion must happen before the ground thaws, but that simply isn�t true. In fact, Russian officials have reportedly �scoffed� at the idea that the ground must be frozen for an invasion to take place� The Kremlin, which has denied having any Ukraine invasion plans, has scoffed at an argument that it wants to see the ground frozen to launch an attack on Ukraine. Ukrainianofficials agree that frozen ground or mud isn�t an issue. So I don�t know why Biden and his minions keep bringing this up as an argument. Unlike western tanks, Russian tanks are specifically designed to operate effectively in extremely muddy conditions� Konstantin Sivkov, a Russian military analyst, said even if there were a ground incursion, Russian battle tanks are significantly lighter than Western armored vehicles anddon�t get bogged down. �Our tanks are much better suited for advancing on muddy terrain, there is nothing to worry about,� Sivkov said in remarks carried by the FAN news outlet. �A thaw can onlystop Western tanks.� Hopefully we won�t actually see Russian tanks in action any time soon. If the Biden administration is willing to negotiate, this crisis can still be resolved. But I don�t think that is going to happen. I think that the Biden administration isn�t going to move from current positions, and so in the end we are going to get to see if the Russians are bluffing or not. Many people out there are absolutely convinced that they are, but I believe that they aren�t. And once the Russians start rolling into Ukraine, nothing will be the same ever again. ---------------------------------------- SOMEBODY Must Really Want A War In Ukraine, And We Should RememberThat Both Previous World Wars Were Sparked In Eastern Europe - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/somebody-must-really-want-a-war-in-ukraine-and-we-should-remember-that-both-previous-world-wars-were-sparked-in-eastern-europe/ Well, that sure escalated quickly. Early on Wednesday, it was being reported that Russia was moving forces away from the Ukrainian border and that both sides would try togive diplomatic talks another chance. But somebody out there must not have been too pleased with that, because by Wednesday evening everything had changed. The Ukrainian military and the separatists in eastern Ukraine started shelling one another relentlessly,and according to the latest information that I have been able to find it is still going on as I write this article. In previous articles, I have expressed my opinion that war in Ukraine will not begin this month, but it appears that somebody out there is tryingto get it going as soon as possible. I think that this is a good time to remember that both previous world wars were sparked in eastern Europe. The assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 is generally recognized as the event that initiated World War I. And the invasion of Poland in 1939 is generally recognized as the event that initiated World War II. So will a conflict in Ukraine by the event that initiates World War III? As far as I can determine, the widespread shelling in Ukraine began some time on Wednesday evening. On Thursday, photos of a kindergarten class that had been hit by a shell were being widely circulated by western media� A �Kindergarten� junior school in Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine, was struck by shellfire that impacted several villages and towns near the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraineon Thursday morning. According to the Ukranian government, as of Thursday afternoon, there had been �42 cases of shelling� recorded which had not caused any deaths, but had seen buildings damaged and seen several people injured, including at least four civiliansand one soldier. Western news sources are focusing on the shelling that is being done by the separatists, but Russian news sources are claiming that it was actually the Ukrainians that startedshelling first� The Russian government provided their own take on events, saying in a release from state media service TASS that the shelling was not by Russian forces but from �forcesof the self-proclaimed Donetsk People�s Republic� � in other words forces loyal to and equipped by Moscow � and was initiated in response to Ukraine shelling them first. I wish that I could prove to you which side started shooting first. But what we do know is that both sides are now firing at one another. Could all of this shelling be a prelude to something bigger? During a discussion with reporters on Thursday, Joe Biden made some rather startling claims� President Biden on Thursday said the U.S. has reason to believe that Russia is �engaged in a false flag operation,� and said he believes that an invasion into Ukraine �willhappen in the next several days.� After all of the false flag operations that the U.S. has been involved in over the years, it is quite ironic that the U.S. is now publicly accusing the Russians of doingthe same thing. And we shall see if Biden is correct about �the next several days�. I don�t think that he will be. But I do think that the possibility of a major conflict in the region happening this year has just gone way up. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that the Russians now have more than 150,000 troops in the region� �We see them add to the more than 150,000 troops they already have,� Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin. �Even in the last couple days.� �We see some of those troops edge closer to that border. We see them fly in more combat and support aircraft. We see them sharpen their readiness in the Black Sea. We evensee them stocking up their blood supplies,� Austin said. �You don�t do these things for no reason. You certainly don�t do them if you�re getting ready to pack up and go home,� the secretary said. U.S. officials certainly seem to be acting as if they believe that we are on the brink of war. But are they trying to prevent it, or are they actually trying to make it happen? During a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised tensions by warning that the Russians may be plotting a �false flag� chemical weapons attack� Russia accused Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday of raising tensions in Eastern European after he issued a warning that Moscow�s plans for a �false flag operation� may include a chemical weapons attack to manufacture a pretext for invading Ukraine. Blinken used a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to set out the fullest account yet of what Washington knows about Russia�s plans. Needless to say, the Russians were not pleased by such a wild accusation� In response, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said Blinken�s scenarios were �regrettable.� �I would even go so far as to say that they are dangerous because they bring in more tension into the unready tense atmosphere,� he said, before repeating Moscow�s discreditedclaims that some troops were already heading home after completing drills. Of course, the Russians are taking actions that are raising tensions too. For example, the second most important U.S. diplomat in Russia was expelled from the country on Thursday� Russia has expelled the second-most senior American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as tensions between the two countries continue to rise over a possible Russianinvasion of Ukraine, the State Department said Thursday. �Russia�s action against our [deputy chief of mission] was unprovoked and we consider this an escalatory step and are considering our response,� a State Department spokesmansaid after U.S. deputy chief of mission Bart Gorman was ordered to leave the country despite having a valid visa. In the coming days, the U.S. and Russia will trade lots of accusations of blame. I just wish that we could find a way to stop the process that has now begun. As I have stated previously, if Americans truly understood what was at stake the streets of our major cities would be filled with protesters. Because once World War III begins, nothing will ever be the same again. The time to stop it is now, and the window of opportunity is very narrow. Unfortunately, somebody out there really seems to want this war to happen, and I have a feeling that whoever it is will eventually get their wish. --------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM