Well, ladies and gentlemen, it seems like everywhere you look right now on social media, people are predicting that World War III is absolutely imminent.

And look, let's just say right off the bat that if you're betting on human stupidity and our capacity for self-destruction, that's a pretty safe bet from a historical perspective.

But when we ask questions or we make accusations like World War III is right around the corner, well, we can actually look at history as well in order to inform us and why not. We think that's actually accurate. And that's what we're going to do today. Now, to give you a little idea about my background, for those of you that don't know, before I was ever in politics, I was actually a member of U.S. Army Special Forces, better known as Green Berets. Before that, I was an infantryman and a paratroop with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 25th Infantry Division. But I did my combat tours in Iraq as a member of First Special Forces Group. And I was a Special Forces weapons sergeant. Then I was a Special forces in Intel Sergeant and then I did also some other work in the defense space. Now does any of that

mean that I know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow on the grand

in Iran or whether or not we're actually going to go hurtling toward World War III anytime soon?

No, it doesn't mean that I have absolute answers to that. What it does mean is that I have some

practical experience, both from an operational perspective as well as a training and educational, on, I don't know, providing some insight in whether or not this is actually highly likely. And what kicked a lot of this off for me was this post right here. Now again, you could say, well, you know, hey, Mario Neffal does a lot of work within the, you know, kind of the new space. But this thing right

there where he says, this is the closest the world has been to World War III and everyone

seems fine with it. That's terrifying. Okay. So the question is, is that accurate. Now,

obviously, this is about what's going on in Iran right now. The fact that the United States and

Israel struck Iran,

Iran responded by striking Israel and various U.S. bases within the Middle East to include bases in

places like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, etc. And then obviously, if you know anything about

the current kind of geopolitical situation, there are arrangements and agreements and not necessarily

alliances, but let's just say close relationships between Russia, Iran, and China. If you want to look

at things like Bricks, you've also seen various alliances between China, India, South America, Brazil,

Russia, etc.

So when we look at the general situation of what's been going on in the world over the past

couple of decades, we kind of see certain groups aligning with one another based off of

whatever the geopolitical situation seems to be in that particular case.

The post-World War II era kind of put Western Europe and now most of Europe on one side of

the equation with the United States and NATO and Russia and the former Warsaw-Pact countries,

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