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Experts Think Syrian Crisis Will End In Third World War As ISIS Publishes New Apocalyptic Video About Final Battle In Rome
The British news site The Mirror reported on Saturday that experts fear a nuclear conflict will grow out the chaos in Syria, where two coalitions with opposing goals and roughly 70 nations are now combating Islamic State.
“Not since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall has the threat of nuclear conflict been so high, with all sides readying their defences and attack capabilities for a possible ‘doomsday’ event,” The Mirror reported.
Earlier last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons against Islamic State after the deployment of a submarine that targeted ISIS’ capital, Raqqa, with missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead. The Calibre cruise missiles have a reach of 1,500 kilometers and were launched from the Rostov-on-Don submarine in the Mediterranean Sea last week.
Putin said during an interview on Russian State Television that the missiles carried a conventional warhead, but could also be equipped with a nuclear payload that he hoped would never be needed.
Putin later ordered the Russian air force to speed up tests on a modified Ilyushin II-80 plane that has been turned into a strategic command center for the Russian military in case of a nuclear conflict.
The military super-plane, dubbed the “doomsday plane” by the American military, is virtually invisible and will enable full control over Russia’s military forces and its nuclear arsenal in the event of a nuclear war.
“Aleksandr Komyakov, the director general of the research institute which designed much of the plane’s sophisticated equipment said the Il-80’s main advantage is its ‘invincibility.’
“He said: ‘While command installations with known ground positions could be eliminated, an airborne command post is a target hard to disable because it shifts continuously,’” The Mirror reported.
Fears that the Syrian war and the war against Islamic State could spark a much wider conflict and even a third world war are shared by an increasing number of people who are following events in the region–because that’s exactly the goal of Islamic State.
The Jihadist organization is actively working to draw as many nations as possible into the Syrian quagmire and just published a new terrifying video about its apocalyptic aspirations. The video depicts the final showdown with the West when ISIS will first capture Italy and from there will conquer Europe. The video, named “Meeting at Dabiq” (Dabiq is a place in Syria where another decisive battle between Muslim armies and the rest of the world will take place at the beginning of the apocalypse), shows part of the battle for world domination when Islamic State will fight against the Western ‘crusaders’ in the Italian capital of Rome.
You can watch parts of the video here:
In the video, flags of the nations that take part in the current battle against ISIS in Iraq and Syria are shown as well as staged images of an attack on the Colosseum in Rome.
At the same time, the conflict between Turkey and Russia, which started when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s air force downed a Russian jet when it crossed the border with Turkey for seventeen seconds after striking anti-Assad forces in the Syrian-Turkish border area, continued to escalate.
First, on December 4th, a sailor on a Russian warship posed in a firing position with a shoulder-fired missile launcher (MANPAD) aimed at Turkish surveillance aircraft during the passage of the vessel through the Turkish-controlled Bosporus Straits.
The Russian action constituted an act of aggression that is prohibited under maritime law, including the Montreux Convention, a treaty that deals with passage in the Bosporus.
On Sunday, tensions escalated further when a Russian warship fired at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea. The Russian Defence Ministry announced that “the destroyer Smetlivy, had been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision and that it had summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident,” Reuters reported.
The increasingly complicated situation in the region has led veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn to compare the situation in Syria with the Balkan wars that led to World War I.
Here’s what the former Financial Times and current Independent Middle East correspondent wrote on Saturday.
The stakes are rising in the war in Syria and Iraq. Knowledge of what is happening on the ground should be at a premium.
Serious powers such as Russia and Turkey are being sucked in and have invested too much of their prestige and credibility to pull back or suffer a defeat. Their vital interests become plugged into obscure but violent local antagonisms, such as those between Russian-backed Kurds and Turkish-backed Turkomans, through whose lands run the roads supplying Aleppo. The Syrian-Iraqi conflict has become to the 21st century what the Balkan wars were to the 20th. In terms of explosive violence on an international scale, 2016 could be our 1914.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/experts-think-syrian-crisis-will-end-in-third-world-war-as-isis-publishes-new-apocalyptic-video-about-final-battle-in-rome/
