Has the Third World War Already Begun?

A provocative new book by a French journalist says today's clash of civilizations constitutes the opening phases of a devastating global conflict—a conflict that is foretold in the Bible.

by Joel Meeker

Has the Third World War already begun? According to French journalist and geopolitical thinker Laurent Artur du Plessis, the answer is "Oui!" In his recent book, La Troisième Guerre mondiale a commencé (The Third World War Has Begun), published by Godefroy and not yet available in English, he details the reasons he believes the world is already in the opening phases of what will eventually become a war that will devastate the world with nuclear and biological weapons.

Though he bases his analysis on simple observation of the current world situation, many of his conclusions bear a striking similarity to elements of Bible prophecy contained in Daniel 11 and Revelation 13, among other chapters.

Mr. du Plessis' thesis is that the dominant geopolitical event now and in the near future will be the confrontation of the world's two main civilizations: the Western democracies and radical Wahhabist Islam. In the first section of the book, he explains why this war of civilizations will continue.

One reason is quite simple: The opposing civilizations have underlying motivations that inexorably lead to conflict. The dominant value identifying Western civilization is individualism and liberty (p. 35). The opposing Islamic civilization, however, is based on a religion. He maintains that all religions have a "spirit" (in the sense of an "attitude") about them, and the spirit of Islam is violence (p. 62), a violence used to expand its own domination by force.

The resulting tension and violence are already being felt around the world, in obvious places like the Middle East but also between India and Pakistan, in Indonesia and multiple nations in Africa. Pakistan recently revealed itself as a nuclear power; if it fell to Islamic extremists, as Mr. du Plessis believes it will, those extremists would have their fingers on the nuclear trigger.

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