Apocalyptic Developments

I wonder if Elon Musk is in on the scenario that we saw in "Inducing The Apocalypse", December 2024.

As the wealthiest man in the world, and in control of so much of social media and the latest technology, Elon Musk has a lot of influence. But his increasing criticism of how various countries are run is generating a lot of backlash. We know that the nations of western Europe must join together, to be the future base of the Antichrist, and Elon Musk's criticism of them, in the name of right-wing politics, drew an apparently coordinated response from the governments of Britain, France, Norway and, Germany.

Elon Musk has even encouraged America to liberate Britain from it's present government which, I suppose, would mean invading Britain.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has continued on his roll of shaking up the global order by proposing to rename the Gulf of Mexico. But bordering nations do not necessarily have to have the same name for a body of water. The French name for the English Channel is La Manche.

One concerning thing is that the generation that directly remembers the Second World War is gone. I have long thought that another world war would be very unlikely as long as the generation that remembered the Second World War was with us. 

Let's remember 1914. There had been no major conflict for about half a century. By no means had there been complete peace, but wars had been mostly skirmishes in faraway places that had lasted maybe a few weeks. No one knew what a major war was.

When the First World War began crowds in European capitals were actually cheering the declaration of war. Peace had gotten boring and they had no idea that they were getting into a war like the world had never seen before. A generation of Europeans never came home from the trenches.

The thing that I find most disturbing about the First World War was that it wasn't really over much of anything. The spark that set it off was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife. But that shouldn't have started a world war. The two were not popular either at home or abroad and most of Europe took only brief notice of it. The war didn't start immediately but by the end of the summer the world would be in a war like it had never seen before. It was just that peace had gotten boring.

For more about the beginning of the First World War see "Assassination In Sarajevo", May 2024. Another thing that the war led to was the end of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled much of the Middle East. The underlying reason for why there is so much war in the Middle East is that it hasn't yet reached a new equilibrium.