World Affairs Brief, December 30, 2022. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
PROBABLE TIMETABLE FOR WWIII
In each year end brief, I reiterate my estimate of when I think war is coming. It hasn’t changed but bears repeating for new subscribers. Having some idea of the timing is important because this Third World War will be different than all other wars America has been involved with.
First, we’ll face peer capable enemies with powerful military forces. That hasn’t happened since we were up against Germany in WWII, and never occurred during our recent wars of intervention against lesser militaries in the phony “war on terror.” Fighting Russia and China will be very different, and the American mainland will be attacked.
Russia has the most powerful nuclear forces in the world, and China as the most powerful conventional forces and the world’s largest navy. Together they will be tough to beat, especially if our own globalist government absorbs a nuclear first strike on our military forces (in accordance with PDD-60) in order to force us into a militarized global government in response.
The pre-emptive strike will only happen, however, when both are ready. Russia is almost ready now with her nuclear forces, but will never be fully ready in conventional forces due to the weaknesses caused by the war against Ukraine. China, in contrast, is already ahead of the West in conventional forces, but still has more to build in order to feel confident going up against slightly superior technology in the West. Her growing nuclear arsenal is unknown but also growing steadily.
So China’s timetable is the controlling one, in my opinion, and China’s military claims they will have achieved first class military status by 2027. That puts her capabilities into the “ready” category in the middle of the last half of this decade, which is where I have estimated she would be ready for several years now.
Still, that doesn’t mean the strike will happen then. We are dealing with 3 major conspiratorial powers— the Western Globalists, Russia and China, neither of which fully control the timetable of the others. No one knows when the war will start precisely, but I do believe Russia and China will need a trigger event to justify it.
Despite all the nuclear blustering by Putin, I don’t think Putin will use Ukraine to start a nuclear WWIII—because China isn’t ready to back him up yet. In fact, China is somewhat irritated with Russia’s invasion seeing how it is weakening Russia’s conventional military and setting the world on alert.
My best estimate is that North Korea will provide the trigger event by attacking South Korea, which will demand a US military response because we have so many US troops stationed there for defense—approximately 28k Army, Air Force and Marine personnel. That attack could come on orders from China, which controls NK, or in response to NK’s leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to attack US forces in Asia if the US tries to interdict and stop China’s invasion of Taiwan. In either case, I don’t think China will signal NK to start the war until China is ready.
Everyone needs to get as prepared as you can—considering both relocation out of blast areas and preparing for fallout and the famine that will come on the heels of the EMP strike by Russia and China that will precede briefly the nuclear strike on military targets–not cities per se (at least not at first). …