World War III has begun

More than 1 billion people live in the countries most involved in our Anschluss against Iran, and another 1.8 billion or more live in other countries already affected and endangered by it.

When World War I (then known as the Great War) began in 1914, roughly 400 million people lived in the countries of the Entente (our side) and the Central Powers (dominated by Germany and Austria-Hungary).

When World War II began, the populations of the primary combatants did not exceed 1 billion.

Little hands Trump and big hands Netanyahu already have threatened more people by their World War III than were threatened at the outset of World Wars I and II combined.

My tally of 1 billion people immediately threatened by our neo-Fascist-initiated* World War III includes these countries:

the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Iraq, Ukraine, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Lebanon, Hungary, Palestine, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar and Bahrain.

Left out of this count is the entire European Union (less Poland and Hungary, already counted) — another 400 million people.

Also left out of the count are another 1.8 billion people already affected by the war, in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and another 60 million or so in other “little countries.” Shortages and high costs of oil, natural gas, fertilizer and interrupted commerce will surely contribute to illnesses and deaths of hungry people elsewhere.

This undeclared war is a carbon copy of the rape scene in “Platoon,” in which Charlie Sheen’s character stops a gang rape in progress, shouting at his comrades, “You fuckers! Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” For which they call him homosexual, and spit at him.

In this scene, Charlie Sheen’s character becomes “sympathetic” to us, because he stands up for a little girl, against heavily armed rapists — his buddies.

I’ve got a good friend, a totally disabled Vietnam vet, who told me he helped gang rape a girl over there. Hurts him to this day. Not as much as it hurt her, of course.

Well, my friends, and enemies: What do we think we are doing in Iran? In the Middle East? What have we been doing there since 1979, and assisting our allies there — above all, the United Kingdom — since oil was discovered in Iran?

We’ve been raping those countries. Impoverishing millions of people, most of them already poor, while feeding the fat cats who rule them and sucking off the scum the human carnivores exude in the form of money.

What is Israel doing now, on the West Bank and in Gaza?

Stripping Arabs of everything they have, or could have had, taking it from them and waving it in their face, raping their wives and children, then moving on to their next illegal settlement, shooting reporters along the way.

World War III has begun.

Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu started it on Feb. 28. These despicable men are two of the greatest liars in the history of the world. They should burn in Hell forever.

If only there were a Hell, and we could see it.

But we already have.

** Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism and forcible suppression of opposition.*