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Originally posted by poet1b
Assad has less ability than ever to take on Israel. This will be no different than the last time israel slapped Syria around. The world will watch and do nothing.
Oil is running out in the Middle East, and soon those nations will be irrelevant.
Russia has no need for a presence in the Middle East. The new frontier is the Arctic Ocean.
Iran can not do anything.
Islam is at war with the world, and has been since the religion was conceived. It could be considered a world war, but is in general, called the War on Terror.
Originally posted by live2beknown
lol...WW3 is far from happening.. No one is that stupid to start it nor is it worth it. I think you people are just fear mongering paranoid people.
I don't believe this is a step to WW3. There might be some wars, but deff not a WW3 event.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
The situation between the Kurdish PPK and the Turkish government has been sorted. The PPK are leaving Turkey. They will go to Kurdistan and soon attempt to set up a Kurdish state independent of Iraq, which will start trouble on Iran's western border.