Jake Broe Is Right: World War Three Has Started
- john raymond
- 2 hours ago
- 2 min read
If you were wondering what World War III would look like when it started, you are now looking at it. It isn’t a single declaration of war, or a mushroom cloud over Manhattan. It’s a hundred threads snapping at once — some military, some economic, some digital, and all interconnected. This is what asymmetry looks like at global scale. And Jake Broe, to his credit, finally said it plainly: “This is World War III, guys.”
Across Ukraine, the fighting continues without pause, with Putin’s forces grinding forward where they can and relying more on drones, missiles, and targeted blackouts to terrorize civilians. But Putin’s ambitions do not end at Donetsk or even Odessa. He is pushing toward the Baltics, toward Kaliningrad, toward Transnistria. Not because he believes in empire — he has no ideology beyond himself — but because each step closer to friction with NATO increases his personal leverage. Power, for Putin, flows from escalation. And every new line he tests becomes a currency to buy silence, submission, or concessions.
At the same time, the Middle East has erupted again. Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have triggered direct retaliation — over a hundred drones in a single night — and now the region teeters on the brink. In Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, proxy forces are already mobilized. American assets are in range. European diplomats are evacuating. And there is no coherent response from the so-called “free world” because the man leading the United States is a compromised asset who serves Putin more than he serves himself.
Meanwhile, the Taiwan Strait grows more tense with each week. Chinese naval exercises have turned into de facto blockades, and rhetoric about “unification” is no longer confined to internal speeches. The Pacific is not quiet. It is merely paused. And when the next move comes, it will not be a surprise — it will be an inevitability.
This is the shape of World War III: not a single front but a kaleidoscope of chaos, all moving toward one center. The violence is distributed. The timelines are offset. But the effect is cumulative. It is not future war — it is present unraveling.
And yet, much of the world remains paralyzed, distracted by personality politics, celebrity trial cycles, and the slow rot of institutional trust. The media plays its old game of covering each crisis as isolated, each escalation as “breaking,” each war as if it has a beginning and end. But the arc is clear. The events are entangled. The shadows are spreading.
Jake Broe was right to say it out loud. We are in it now. The longer we pretend we are not, the more we invite failure — not just strategic or diplomatic, but civilizational. Because this isn’t just about lines on a map. It’s about what happens when a world built on interdependence starts to cannibalize itself.
World War III is not waiting in the wings. It is on stage, center spotlight, already reciting its lines. All that remains is whether we choose to name it — and act — or keep watching in silence until the curtains burn down.