There have also been numerous Shia militia roaming around Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led preemptive invasion, including the Mahdi Army and the Promised Day Brigade. For example, the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah is on the side of Syria, Russia, and Iran, while the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra is fighting to t opple Assad’s regime and replace it with an Islamic government. These are just the state actors - there’s also a number of nonstate entities engaged in this conflict. Making matters even more complicated, Turkey is fighting against the Kurds, and the Syrian rebels are receiving additional help from Jordan, Turkey and the Gulf states. is also leading a coalition of over 60 countries, and France recently started its own coalition to fight the Islamic State, as did Russia. supports the Kurds and Syrian rebels fighting against al-Assad’s forces. Russia and Iran, for example, both support the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. The fact is that the Syrian conflict is an international tangle of competing interests and strange alliances. The idea that World War III has started isn’t crazy - although neither is it obviously true. And last September, Pope Francis visited a military cemetery in Italy and warned that “perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.” For example, Jordan’s King Abdullah recently said at a news conference that “we are facing a Third World War against humanity,” and that we must “act fast to tackle the response to interconnected threats.” Similarly, Roger Cohen at the New York Times wrote a poignant article in which he draws a number of parallels between the Syrian war and the beginning of World War I. To add to this, the widespread and extensive network of propaganda and communication set up by the American secret organizations has succeeded in taking control of the mass media of several nations of the world, including those of the U.S.A.Has World War III begun? Some world leaders and journalists seem to think so. Although the American democracy might seem relatively healthy and capable, at least apparently, problems like the rapid increase in addiction among the youth alongside the fall in the number of well-educated native Americans as also that of the diminishing participation of the citizens are factors that adversely affect the health of the American democracy. Russia and China, both super powers, have not even a trace of democracy in them. Though democracy has struck firm and deep roots in the Indian subcontinent, the innumerable big and small political parties tend to lead it astray, not to mention the eternal downpour of corruption that drowns it in deep sorrow. Pure democracy is the only strength that can mellow down the horrific face of war but today, how many nations of the world are real democracies? The democracy in Great Britain that boasts of being the father of the parliamentary democratic system too is growing feeble owing to corruption and internal conflicts. This is what has already started to happen and with every coming year, such instances are going to mount rapidly. Then there comes a stage when neither side feels the need to give any moral justification of its deeds, not even a superficial one. Once the war begins and more and more allies begin to take their stand on either side, the open and defiant violation of all ethics, one after another along with that of restraint begins with equal pace. Thus, although political games and secret conspiracies are going to be sure directives, quantitative power that can resort to aggression, violence and extreme ruthlessness is going to prove more dominant and successful in the conflict and for a long time to come. Values based on theory or principles will have no place whatsoever in this conflict and ‘survival of the fittest’ will, on the contrary, be the only commandment. There is no doubt that over the next twenty to twenty-five years, conflict will become an aspect of everyday doings and in every region on earth.
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