Has World War III already started?

 

                           

      By Reginald Johnson

 

Foreign policy analyst Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson sees alarming parallels between what’s happening in the world today and the year 1914,  when World War I broke out.

Like Britain and France at that time who were desperately trying to hold onto their empires in the face of a rising German state, the United States is now trying to maintain its global hegemony as China surges as an economic and military power.

“Mark my word, we’re already in World War III. We are in the opening stages of World War III,” said Wilkerson.

 “And this war is going to be fought and it will be fought whether it starts in Southwest Asia, the Arctic or as the war continues in Ukraine and spreads, it will be fought in order to stop the same thing that Britain and France were trying to stop years and years ago ---the overtaking of the American empire by China and its other friends. That’s what we’re involved in today,” said Wilkerson.

 Then he added ominously, “The difference, the salient difference between today and then is, we have nuclear weapons.”

Col. Wilkerson was part of a discussion hosted by Danny Haiphong about President Trump’s recent moves on Ukraine and global tensions in general. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson also took part.

Wilkerson once was Chief of Staff  to Secretary of State Colin Powell during the Bush administration.  Early on he supported the Iraq War but later became a critic.  In recent years he’s been a commentator on  foreign affairs, often criticizing Israel and US policy in the Middle East.

Wilkerson said the US is in a “very, very serious” situation globally and Americans need to get a grasp on it.

Both he and Johnson criticized Trump on his management of foreign policy.

“To have Trump in the chairman’s seat, so to speak, is an utter disaster,” Wilkerson said.