War, always happens in unexpected places, who would have thought that in the rapid development of science and technology, the use of aircraft, giant ships sailing around the world, people do not need passports to achieve circumnavigation of the world in the first decade of the 20th century, Europeans lived extremely rich and splendid, but suddenly because of a gun in the Balkans, the first all-out war in human history broke out, and tens of millions of people died for it.
Just as before Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France watched Germany fight small troubles in Central Europe, annexing Austria and then the Czech Republic, as if they did not care about themselves, and Prime Minister Chamberlain also said that he had brought back precious peace for the British. Even during the period when Germany destroyed France and continued to bomb Britain, the Soviet Union was also watching the war in Western Europe through newspapers every day, happily eating melons, who would have thought that the Germans would suddenly attack the Soviet Union in 1941, causing a fatal blow to the Soviet Red Army.
Germany blitzed Poland
Therefore, wars often break out inadvertently, and what we can do is to plan ahead, strengthen ourselves, and have the strength to protect ourselves from the erosion of war in a world war. Back in today's 2023, the situation in the world is very unusual.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the global economic bubble seems to have been burst, the false prosperity of capital is unsustainable, even the landlord beautiful country has no surplus food, and then began to cut leeks around the world. In order to promote the return of capital and prosper the domestic market, the Fed continued to raise interest rates last year and for a long time this year, and because the dollar is a global currency, the Fed raises interest rates, which is bound to cause global countries to raise interest rates, after all, every country wants to retain capital, and the best way to retain capital is to raise interest rates, and the evil Fed wrench, but raising interest rates will destroy the original market, because interest rate hikes will naturally lead to a large amount of money concentrated in banks.
As mentioned earlier, bank interest rate hikes will absorb a large number of deposits, which will naturally cause a decrease in money circulating in the market, and then cause sluggish consumption, and then deflation and overcapacity. And as the global market shrinks, it is a disaster for many manufacturing countries and export-oriented countries. The collapse of these countries will be followed by a global economic downturn.
Economic downturn
And the global economic downturn is not very familiar, yes, this is the state of the world before World War II, before World War II, Europe because of the huge debt owed by Europe in World War I, the purchasing power fell sharply, coupled with the outbreak of the economic crisis in the United States, which led to the economic malaise of the entire world. Because of their weak economic foundation, many countries have turned to fascist extremism of military dictatorship.
Economic downturn
On April 4, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will officially accept the last document submitted by Turkey agreeing to Finland's membership at NATO headquarters in Brussels, officially becoming the 31st NATO country. This news may be overshadowed by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in Europe and appear less visible. But this is an extremely important international event, and if it had been placed two years ago, it would have been absolutely explosive news.
At the same time, after joining NATO, Finland agreed to the request for US troops, and the US military also announced that thousands of US troops will be stationed in Finland in the next few months to three years to maintain regional peace. And what is the location of Finland, a neighbor of Russia, guarding Russia's access to the Baltic Sea. And Russia, whose economy is on the verge of collapse, is so weak and unable to care about other things. And the United States also saw that Russia was extremely weak, so it dared to enter Finland rashly, almost putting a knife on Russia's neck.
It is true that historically, Russia and Finland belong to the feud, Russia rose to the stage, whales swallowed a large area of Finland, at the end of Tsarist Russia, Finland was even directly ruled by Tsarist Russia, because of the resistance of the Finns, Russia ruled in Finland very brutally, which inspired the hatred of the Finns. After the collapse of Tsarist Russia, Finland became independent, and on the eve of World War II, the Soviet Union and Finland broke out in the Soviet-Finnish War, the two countries fought extremely cruelly, the Soviet Union spent huge human and financial resources, paid huge casualties, defeated Finland, obtained a large area of land, and the hatred between the two countries was full.
It's just that after World War II, Finland, as a neighbor of the Soviet Union, was forced by the huge pressure of the Red Soviet Union, so it could only swallow its anger, pretended to be friendly, and basically obeyed the Soviet Union, and during the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, it chose neutrality, did not join NATO, and did not join the Warsaw Pact. Despite neutrality, after all, it is too close to the USSR, so it is still much better with the USSR on the surface, as for the inner thoughts, this is not, taking advantage of Russia's deep Ukrainian quagmire, Finland plunged headlong into the arms of the West without hesitation, what neutrality, expediency.
In this way, the forces led by the United States, including NATO and some junior brothers in the Asia-Pacific region, have basically wrapped Russia around, and under the layers of encirclement, Russia has almost no respite. And this scene is not very familiar, before World War II, Germany was also blocked by the West by the sea, Germany had no chance to break through the British naval encirclement, so it could only annex Austria of the same language in Europe, and then took the Sudetenland.
Finland joins NATO
Is this similar to today's world situation? Russia is also completely trapped by the United States and can only seek a breakthrough in the periphery, first annexing Crimea, and then beginning to encroach on Ukraine of the same language and species. And Russia, like Germany, although the economy is in shambles, but it has the strength to start a world war, Russia has a complete and powerful military-industrial system, and has one of the best nuclear arsenals.
Then let's talk about today's world situation, where one place is at war and the rest of the world is watching and watching. The latest thing to note is the bombing of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam on the Dnieper, coincidentally in 1938 Chiang Dingwen also blew up the Huayuankou embankment to delay the Japanese offensive. Then again, almost all the world's people are watching the Russian-Ukrainian war from their mobile phones, feeling that the war seems to have nothing to do with the world, but just everyone's conversation after tea.
What we are concerned about, basically, is that the Russian army took the Udong region yesterday, today it took Odessa or Kherson, tomorrow it retreated from the Dnieper, where another encounter broke out, how many people were killed and wounded on both sides. This scene is actually very familiar, World War II, the time point of intervention of various countries is different, if it is discussed at the earliest, naturally it is from 1931, China and Japan have begun a partial war, and in 1937 began a full-scale war of resistance, and what was the situation in the world at that time? Every morning, I would read the newspapers to see what kind of confrontation between China and Japan had begun, and then according to the progress of the war, after tea and dinner, I debated with a few friends about the subsequent development of the war, and boldly imagined the outcome of the war in the future. One day, it was Japan that invaded and occupied northeast China, and then on one day it fought the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan, and millions of people fought each other.
Japan's war of aggression against China
And what about the subsequent development, when the world thought that the War of Resistance Against Japan was only a local war in East Asia, Hitler's Nazi Germany raided Poland, officially opening the prelude to World War II, and then Britain and France declared war on Germany, and the Soviet Union and Germany divided Poland. The German army led the army west, directly destroyed the invincible France, and Pétain, the minister of meritorious ministers of World War I, could only create a German puppet regime and become the laughing stock of the world. Then there was a protracted Anglo-German war. In 1940, the Soviet Union watched a good show for a year, but Germany suddenly turned its gun in 1941 and pierced a big hole in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union was forced to enter the war.
And the United States, on the other side of the ocean, is very distant from Asia and Europe and feels that it has nothing to do with the war, so it sells weapons all day, sells Japanese gasoline and scrap steel, and makes a lot of money. How could the Americans have thought that war would burn to their own heads. However, at the end of 1941, in order to dominate the Pacific, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, dealing a heavy blow to the United States and forcing the United States to participate in World War II. Only then did the Second World War in the true sense of the word take shape.
And in today's situation, who can ensure that Russia's brain is hot, and if it can't bear it, it doesn't need to endure it anymore, directly send troops to Finland, and then destroy the arrangement of US military facilities in Finland. And if so, the United States, as the big brother of NATO, naturally will not just endure this breath, do not export gas for Finland, who will still follow the United States in the future, so the beautiful country is bound to gather NATO countries, and then the entire United Nations army, to start a war against Russia. And this battle is bound to affect the global situation, Russia will naturally be trapped in order to defend the country, the war of the first world spread, all countries will be implicated, then the third world war is bound to break out.
Nuclear balance
However, today's situation, although the contradictions are more prominent than on the eve of World War II or the eve of World War I, may be more stable. Because until now, what supports world peace is actually the nuclear balance, and the United States does not dare to deceive people too much, afraid that Russia will choose to die together and pull the earth to be buried. So in many things, the United States did not put many things on the surface, for example, how can it be possible to resist the Russian army for more than a year with the military power of Ukraine?
In many things in Ukraine, the United States also has leeway, but the Ukrainian lion has opened its mouth, is unwilling to negotiate peace with Russia, and also demands the return of Wudong and Crimea, and demands a large amount of war reparations, resulting in a stalemate in the war. And the United States stationed in Finland this time, most likely to put a little pressure on Russia, let Russia also take a step back, do not be too tough in Ukraine, face embarrassment. The United States is most likely to station troops in Finland, and most likely will not deploy any offensive weapons to take the initiative to break the balance of the regional situation, and the United States is also afraid that the Russians will go up and do it desperately, in that case, the United States will also face great trouble, especially the risk of war and nuclear threats.
Will the Russian-Ukrainian war be the beginning of three wars
But Russia is not the kind of person who plays cards according to common sense, such as Hitler back then, who was driven by Britain and France to attack the Soviet Union, but people just didn't fight the Soviet Union first, first divided Poland with the Soviet Union, and signed a contract, and then turned back to fiercely clean up the connection between Britain and France, and then attacked the Soviet Union. The situation in Eastern Europe is quite delicate, both sides are tightened, once one side can't hold its breath, maybe today's Ukraine is China after 1931, today's Wudong region and Crimea, is the Northeast and Rehe of that year.
If this is the case, then it is really that the third world war has broken out!
Therefore, cherish peace, love yourself, love your family, love this beautiful and peaceful place, and take good care of this ancient country that has inherited 5,000 years of civilization.