{"id":263697,"date":"2023-01-15T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263697"},"modified":"2023-01-17T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T08:22:47","slug":"emmanuel-todd-on-the-third-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263697","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Todd On The Third World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 Jan 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The French <em>Le Figaro<\/em> has an interview with the well known anthropologist Emmanuel Todd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/vox\/monde\/emmanuel-todd-la-troisieme-guerre-mondiale-a-commence-20230112\">Emmanuel Todd: \u00abLa Troisi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale a commenc\u00e9\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The third world war has began&#8221; is his new thesis. Todd is quite famous for correctly predicting the devolution of the Soviet Union long before it happened. He was quite alone at that time.<\/p>\n<p>I once had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2008\/12\/emmanuel-todd-on-europe.html\">a piece on Todd&#8217;s later predictions<\/a> for the U.S. and Europe which still seems spot on. I also quoted him in a piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2018\/11\/seeing-social-decline-as-a-national-security-threat-may-change-conservative-policies-.html\">social decline as a national security issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the <em>Figaro<\/em> piece is paywalled. But Arnaud Bertrand has done us the favor of translating the gist. Here is his slightly edited thread:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RnaudBertrand\/status\/1613924570725244928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">15:42 UTC \u00b7 Jan 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Emmanuel Todd, one of the greatest French intellectuals today, claims that the &#8220;Third World War has started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Small \uf9f5 translating the most important points in this fascinating interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He says &#8220;it&#8217;s obvious that the conflict, which started as a limited territorial war and is escalating to a global economic confrontation\u00a0 between the whole of the West on the one hand and Russia and China on the other hand, has become a world war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/01\/emmanuel-todd-on-the-third-world-war.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>Emmanuel Todd On The Third World War<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Todd predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union long before it happened. In 2003 he also foresaw a US economic crash that would push jobs \u201coverseas and gut the nation\u2019s industrial base.\u201d On both counts he was entirely correct. Now he is warning that America is being pushed &#8220;towards the precipice&#8221; and WWIII is already underway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Predictions_from_the_past_or_for_the_future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263700,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263697\/revisions\/263700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}