The Perfect Storm – the world is on a collision course with catastrophe...

Racing Toward Armageddon – How a Concurrence of Events May Find a Nexus in Global War

  Ilana Freedman

America stands in the vortex of a developing “perfect storm” that is likely to engulf the world. Failing to act against it, we are, by our own inaction, losing ground as we race toward Armageddon. From Europe to Iran to North Korea to the US, events are moving inexorably toward a violent confrontation of cultures.
A “perfect storm” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors”. In today’s world, the factors include the economic failure of leading nations, the social upheavals and the rise of Islamist states throughout the Middle East, the continuing development of a powerful nuclear weapons capability by Iran, the collusion between Iran and North Korea in their effort to defeat the West, and finally, America’s inability (or lack of will) to lead the world away from the storm.
The Economic Storm     It begins with the failing European economy. Intent on imposing socialist economic theory upon its member states, the policies of the EU have led to a sharp decline in free enterprise and an even sharper rise in taxation to support mandated social programs. National debts have grown astronomically and countries like Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal now owe more than 100% of their GDP. Unemployment rates in Spain and Greece are over 25%, with other countries close behind. Yet rather than cutting back on their regressive, job- killing policies, European countries are now moving towards seizing even more of their citizens’ personal assets to fund insatiable government appetites.
America has not learned from the failures of Europe. Instead, the combination of America’s massive $16.8 trillion debt, its unrestricted spending, and its demand for new revenues from an already over-burdened, under-employed population is driving the US toward an economic failure that may soon rival Europe’s.
The Rising “Arab Spring” Storm The spreading phenomenon of the so-called “Arab Spring” has led to the overthrow of harsh but stable, pro-West leaders. They have been replaced by equally harsh Islamist leaders, who despise the West and impose severe Islamist law on their own people. The resulting social changes have severely marginalized women and put non-Muslims in the deadly cross-hairs of radical extremists. Christians, who used to live unmolested in Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, are now targeted for harassment and death.
America ‘s policy of handing out money to these new governments, without apparent concern for the consequences or a demand for any quid pro quo, has turned our former allies into dangerous foes. We are despised for what they perceive: a weak, toothless tiger who can now be conquered. The sense of empowerment that this gives to these newly created, antagonistic governments cannot be overestimated.
The Iran-North Korea Nexus of Evil Kim Jong-Un’s declaration that he intends to restart the nuclear complex in Yongbyon should not have been unexpected. By terminating the truce with South Korea, and threatening to “settle scores” with South Korea and the US, he accomplished far more than even he may have anticipated.
Today, all eyes are on North Korea, while Iran has been inexplicably and dangerously quiet. Although Iran and North Korea have been teaming up for years, their close relationship has been widely ignored. Among their goals was the acceleration of nuclear development for both countries and the creation of a slimmer nuclear warhead to arm the Iranian Shahab-3 missile.
The international scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear ambitions has driven Teheran to use Pyongyang as a proxy for the development, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons. There is, therefore, good reason to believe that North Korea’s recent nuclear test and three stage rocket launch were closely linked to this Iranian alliance.
The Perfect Storm – Armageddon    The chances are high that the new crisis on the Korean peninsula may be a manufactured diversion from Iran’s accelerated nuclear weapons program. If so, that doesn’t make it less dangerous – any small move by a host of new leaders in the region could create an unstoppable crisis in a matter of hours. However, a danger no less menacing may be  lurking behind the obvious:  that Kim Jong-Un’s dramatic exhibition is intended to distract the world as Iran completes a critical phase in its nuclear arms development program.
This possibility brings into sharp focus the nexus between the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, and the US. Incredibly, the release of detailed information last week about previously unknown nuclear sites in Iran, the al Quds nuclear enric hment site with 8,000 centrifuges, and the al Mugniyah site, with 380 missile silos and launchers, has gone largely ignored.  although our sources have provided extensive photographic evidence that the pace of construction at the sites has been aggressive.
The seeds of a perfect storm are coming together: global economic failure, a strengthening Islamist power center in the Middle East, Iranian ambitions and the barely hidden collaboration between Iran and North Korea, and the US/European inability to act against them. As the dots are connected, the resulting picture gives credence to the concern that Iran is actively planning to embroil the region in a large, chaotic, nuclear war.
While the events swirling around the Middle East and the Pacific Rim are being given little more than lip service by the US government, the world is on a collision course with catastrophe, racing toward Armageddon – a global confrontation between opposing ideologies. The West’s unwillingness to recognize the enormity of the threat puts the world in inestimable danger. American inaction is the most dangerous path we can follow.
Ilana Freedman, Editor of GerardDirect.com, has been a intelligence analyst and journalist for over 25 years. Comments can be sent to her at ilana@gerarddirect.com.