These 5 global events show how CLOSE we are to World War III

October 31, 2023

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World War III is a hot topic right now. Some are saying it will break out before Christmas. Is it that unrealistic? World War III was trending on Twitter earlier this year when Biden announced yet another of the many billion-dollar aid packages to Ukraine that, as the Kremlin warned, is funding a proxy war with Russia. We have continued to poke the bear, sending over $100 billion to Ukraine, while fueling Russia's campaign to forge a new axis of power with China, Iran, North Korea, and other anti-Western nations to counter the U.S.

We have continued to poke the bear.

Glenn has long warned about the development of this new anti-Western axis of power. Through the BRICS alliance, Russia, China, and Iran have provided developing nations that have been disillusioned by U.S. foreign policy an alternative to the U.S. dollar, severely diminishing its global influence. Moreover, Russia and China have strengthened their military alliance as the U.S. continues to deplete its munitions while neglecting its ever-weakening economy at home. If the anti-Western axis of power were looking for an opportunity to take advantage of America's weakness, it would be now.

Glenn has long warned about the development of this new anti-Western axis of power.

Following Hamas' terror attacks in Israel, World War III is trending again, and this time, it feels more imminent than ever. This new axis of power has escalated into military action to counter the American-Euro response to the conflict, inching towards the precipice of full-blown war. Here are five global events that demonstrate the deepening ties between the new axis of power—Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea—and how, as Glenn predicts, World War III is imminent.

China deploys 6 war ships to the Red Sea

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Following Hamas' terror attacks, China's People's Liberation Army deployed six warships to the Middle East. Though the Chinese Communist Party and White House National Security Advisor John Kirby deny any connection between the deployment and Hamas' terrorist attacks, Israel is calling their bluff, and Glenn is too.

China, Russia, and Iran hold joint military exercises off the Gulf of Oman

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Russian ships depart Moscow headed to the Middle East.

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Shortly after China deployed its six warships to the Gulf of Oman, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PCLA) engaged in joint military exercises with Russia and Qatar, the world's largest sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood. Glenn said that these joint military exercises debunk any semblance of credibility to China's self-touted "neutral" deployment of six warships to the Middle East.

This is concerning for several reasons. First, China has sided with Arab nations, criticizing Israel's retaliatory military engagement in Gaza following the Hamas terror attacks. Chinese minister Wang Yi said Israel is "acting beyond self-defense" and continues to criticize the IDF's objective to take out Hamas. It is clear that China is no friend to Israel.

It is clear that China is no friend to Israel.

Moreover, China's military position in Africa poses a considerable geopolitical threat if the Israel-Hamas war becomes the catalyst for World War III. China maintains its only foreign military base in Djibouti, across the Gulf of Oman. These joint-military drills simulate the ease with which China could deploy additional troops from its naval base to the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war erupt into a global conflict with Russia close behind.

US forces in Syria, Iraq, and the Red Sea come under attack

US troops operate a tank in Syria.

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The Pentagon announced that U.S. forces based in the Middle East have been attacked at least 13 times in the past week. According to Brigadier-General Pat Ryder, American troops were targeted ten times in Iraq and three times in Syria “via a mix of one-way attack drones and rockets." Though Iran has yet to claim responsibility, the Pentagon said these attacks have "Iranian fingerprints all over it.”

Iran backs multiple militia groups in the Middle East, including the insurgent groups in Iraq and Syria that are suspected to have launched the recent attacks against U.S. troops in the region. In addition, Iran funds Houthi militias in Yemen, who incited an ongoing Yemeni Civil War against the U.S. and Saudi-backed Yemeni government. It is clear that Iran's military influence extends throughout the greater Middle East beyond its borders.

These attacks have "Iranian fingerprints all over it.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carriers to the Middle East in addition to multiple retaliatory airstrikes over Syria in response to the Iranian-backed attacks, signaling the escalating tension between the two powers.

Russia’s foreign minister offers security talks with North Korea and China as he visits Pyongyang

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meets with North Korea's Kim Jon Un in Pyongyang to discuss ways to deter the US's growing military alliances in the region.

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Russia has taken on the lead role in deepening ties of what Glenn has described as the "new Axis of power" with China, Iran, and North Korea. Most recently, Russia's chief diplomat, Foreign Minister Lavrov visited Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang to address what he described as the US's increasing regional military threats in the region. Lavrov said:

The United States, Japan, and South Korea intensifying military activity here and Washington working toward moving strategic infrastructure, including nuclear aspects, here, are of great concern to us and our North Korean friends.

North Korea has played a crucial role in supplying Russia with weapons, enabling the Kremlin to bypass international sanctions to fund their war effort in Ukraine. The White House reported that North Korea had delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia. The revolving aid between traditionally sanctioned countries like Russia and North Korea demonstrates the decreasing effectiveness of Western sanctions to deter global aggression towards U.S. allies.

39 countries are ready to join the BRICS alliance in 2024

Putin, Xi, and other world leaders gather at the South African BRICS summit.

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Glenn has long warned of the threat the BRICS alliance poses to the U.S. dollar and, consequently, the U.S.'s national security. BRICS was originally founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to provide an alternative to the U.S. dollar's global dominance in international trade. The dollar has been the default international currency since the end of World War I due to its stability and dependability compared to other currencies. This position gives the U.S. major leverage in geopolitical relationships.

BRICS provides an alternative to the U.S. dollar's global dominance in international trade.

However, BRICS has significantly diminished the U.S. dollar's global significance, giving developing nations who have been disillusioned by U.S. foreign policy a tantalizing alternative. The alliance has already enabled Russia, China, and Iran to bypass sanctions and solidify their influence in Africa and South America. Now, with Iran formally joining the alliance in 2024, Russia, China, and Iran will have an established means of bypassing Western sanctions and the "petrodollar" to build their parallel global economy.

Should a global war erupt, the petrodollar and sanctions will be rendered useless to stifle the war efforts of the opposing powers. Moreover, BRICS is expanding into 34 countries in 2024, shifting many countries that have traditionally looked to the U.S. for economic partnership elsewhere. As the developing world is being pulled towards the East, the U.S.'s historic economic supremacy during wartime would be severely diminished.

How private stewardship could REVIVE America’s wild

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The left’s idea of stewardship involves bulldozing bison and barring access. Lee’s vision puts conservation back in the hands of the people.

The media wants you to believe that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is trying to bulldoze Yellowstone and turn national parks into strip malls — that he’s calling for a reckless fire sale of America’s natural beauty to line developers’ pockets. That narrative is dishonest. It’s fearmongering, and, by the way, it’s wrong.

Here’s what’s really happening.

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized.

The federal government currently owns 640 million acres of land — nearly 28% of all land in the United States. To put that into perspective, that’s more territory than France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined.

Most of this land is west of the Mississippi River. That’s not a coincidence. In the American West, federal ownership isn’t just a bureaucratic technicality — it’s a stranglehold. States are suffocated. Locals are treated as tenants. Opportunities are choked off.

Meanwhile, people living east of the Mississippi — in places like Kentucky, Georgia, or Pennsylvania — might not even realize how little land their own states truly control. But the same policies that are plaguing the West could come for them next.

Lee isn’t proposing to auction off Yellowstone or pave over Yosemite. He’s talking about 3 million acres — that’s less than half of 1% of the federal estate. And this land isn’t your family’s favorite hiking trail. It’s remote, hard to access, and often mismanaged.

Failed management

Why was it mismanaged in the first place? Because the federal government is a terrible landlord.

Consider Yellowstone again. It’s home to the last remaining herd of genetically pure American bison — animals that haven’t been crossbred with cattle. Ranchers, myself included, would love the chance to help restore these majestic creatures on private land. But the federal government won’t allow it.

So what do they do when the herd gets too big?

They kill them. Bulldoze them into mass graves. That’s not conservation. That’s bureaucratic malpractice.

And don’t even get me started on bald eagles — majestic symbols of American freedom and a federally protected endangered species, now regularly slaughtered by wind turbines. I have pictures of piles of dead bald eagles. Where’s the outrage?

Biden’s federal land-grab

Some argue that states can’t afford to manage this land themselves. But if the states can’t afford it, how can Washington? We’re $35 trillion in debt. Entitlements are strained, infrastructure is crumbling, and the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and National Park Service are billions of dollars behind in basic maintenance. Roads, firebreaks, and trails are falling apart.

The Biden administration quietly embraced something called the “30 by 30” initiative, a plan to lock up 30% of all U.S. land and water under federal “conservation” by 2030. The real goal is 50% by 2050.

That entails half of the country being taken away from you, controlled not by the people who live there but by technocrats in D.C.

You think that won’t affect your ability to hunt, fish, graze cattle, or cut timber? Think again. It won’t be conservatives who stop you from building a cabin, raising cattle, or teaching your grandkids how to shoot a rifle. It’ll be the same radical environmentalists who treat land as sacred — unless it’s your truck, your deer stand, or your back yard.

Land as collateral

Moreover, the U.S. Treasury is considering putting federally owned land on the national balance sheet, listing your parks, forests, and hunting grounds as collateral.

What happens if America defaults on its debt?

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Do you think our creditors won’t come calling? Imagine explaining to your kids that the lake you used to fish in is now under foreign ownership, that the forest you hunted in belongs to China.

This is not hypothetical. This is the logical conclusion of treating land like a piggy bank.

The American way

There’s a better way — and it’s the American way.

Let the people who live near the land steward it. Let ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and local conservationists do what they’ve done for generations.

Did you know that 75% of America’s wetlands are on private land? Or that the most successful wildlife recoveries — whitetail deer, ducks, wild turkeys — didn’t come from Washington but from partnerships between private landowners and groups like Ducks Unlimited?

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized. When you break it, you fix it. When you profit from the land, you protect it.

This is not about selling out. It’s about buying in — to freedom, to responsibility, to the principle of constitutional self-governance.

So when you hear the pundits cry foul over 3 million acres of federal land, remember: We don’t need Washington to protect our land. We need Washington to get out of the way.

Because this isn’t just about land. It’s about liberty. And once liberty is lost, it doesn’t come back easily.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

EXPOSED: Why the left’s trans agenda just CRASHED at SCOTUS

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You never know what you’re going to get with the U.S. Supreme Court these days.

For all of the Left’s insane panic over having six supposedly conservative justices on the court, the decisions have been much more of a mixed bag. But thank God – sincerely – there was a seismic win for common sense at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It’s a win for American children, parents, and for truth itself.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s state ban on irreversible transgender procedures for minors.

The mostly conservative justices stood tall in this case, while Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson predictably dissented. This isn’t just Tennessee’s victory – 20 other red states that have similar bans can now breathe easier, knowing they can protect vulnerable children from these sick, experimental, life-altering procedures.

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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, saying Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. It’s rooted in a very simple truth that common sense Americans get: kids cannot consent to permanent damage. The science backs this up – Norway, Finland, and the UK have all sounded alarms about the lack of evidence for so-called “gender-affirming care.” The Trump administration’s recent HHS report shredded the activist claims that these treatments help kids’ mental health. Nothing about this is “healthcare.” It is absolute harm.

The Left, the ACLU, and the Biden DOJ screamed “discrimination” and tried to twist the Constitution to force this radical ideology on our kids.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court saw through it this time. In her concurring opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett nailed it: gender identity is not some fixed, immutable trait like race or sex. Detransitioners are speaking out, regretting the surgeries and hormones they were rushed into as teens. WPATH – the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the supposed experts on this, knew that kids cannot fully grasp this decision, and their own leaked documents prove that they knew it. But they pushed operations and treatments on kids anyway.

This decision is about protecting the innocent from a dangerous ideology that denies biology and reality. Tennessee’s Attorney General calls this a “landmark victory in defense of America’s children.” He’s right. This time at least, the Supreme Court refused to let judicial activism steal our kids’ futures. Now every state needs to follow Tennessee’s lead on this, and maybe the tide will continue to turn.

Insider alert: Glenn’s audience EXPOSES the riots’ dark truth

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Glenn asked for YOUR take on the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, and YOU responded with a thunderous verdict. Your answers to our recent Glennbeck.com poll cut through the establishment’s haze, revealing a profound skepticism of their narrative.

The results are undeniable: 98% of you believe taxpayer-funded NGOs are bankrolling these riots, a bold rejection of the claim that these are grassroots protests. Meanwhile, 99% dismiss the mainstream media’s coverage as woefully inadequate—can the official story survive such resounding doubt? And 99% of you view the involvement of socialist and Islamist groups as a growing threat to national security, signaling alarm at what Glenn calls a coordinated “Color Revolution” lurking beneath the surface.

You also stand firmly with decisive action: 99% support President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell the chaos. These numbers defy the elite’s tired excuses and reflect a demand for truth and accountability. Are your tax dollars being weaponized to destabilize America? You’ve answered with conviction.

Your voice sends a powerful message to those who dismiss the unrest as mere “protests.” You spoke, and Glenn listened. Keep shaping the conversation at Glennbeck.com.

Want to make your voice heard? Check out more polls HERE.

EXPOSED: Your tax dollars FUND Marxist riots in LA

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Protesters wore Che shirts, waved foreign flags, and chanted Marxist slogans — but corporate media still peddles the ‘spontaneous outrage’ narrative.

I sat in front of the television this weekend, watching the glittering spectacle of corporate media do what it does best: tell me not to believe my lying eyes.

According to the polished news anchors, what I was witnessing in Los Angeles was “mostly peaceful protests.” They said it with all the earnest gravitas of someone reading a bedtime story, while behind them the streets looked like a deleted scene from “Mad Max.” Federal agents dodged concrete slabs as if it were an Olympic sport. A man in a Che Guevara crop top tried to set a police car on fire. Dumpster fires lit the night sky like some sort of postapocalyptic luau.

If you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

But sure, it was peaceful. Tear gas clouds and Molotov cocktails are apparently the incense and candles of this new civic religion.

The media expects us to play along — to nod solemnly while cities burn and to call it “activism.”

Let’s call this what it is: delusion.

Another ‘peaceful’ riot

If the Titanic “mostly floated” and the Hindenburg “mostly flew,” then yes, the latest L.A. riots are “mostly peaceful.” But history tends to care about those tiny details at the end — like icebergs and explosions.

The coverage was full of phrases like “spontaneous,” “grassroots,” and “organic,” as if these protests materialized from thin air. But many of the signs and banners looked like they’d been run off at ComradesKinkos.com — crisp print jobs with slogans promoting socialism, communism, and various anti-American regimes. Palestinian flags waved beside banners from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador. It was like someone looted a United Nations souvenir shop and turned it into a revolution starter pack.

And guess who funded it? You did.

According to at least one report, much of this so-called spontaneous rage fest was paid for with your tax dollars. Tens of millions of dollars from the Biden administration ensured your paycheck funded Trotsky cosplayers chucking firebombs at local coffee shops.

The same aging radicals from the 1970s — now armed with tenure, pensions, and book deals — are cheering from the sidelines, waxing poetic about how burning a squad car is “liberation.” These are the same folks who once wore tie-dye and flew to help guerrilla fighters and now applaud chaos under the banner of “progress.”

This is not progress. It is not protest. It’s certainly not justice or peace.

It’s an attempt to dismantle the American system — and if you dare say that out loud, you’re labeled a bigot, a fascist, or, worst of all, someone who notices reality.

And what sparked this taxpayer-funded riot? Enforcement against illegal immigrants — many of whom, according to official arrest records, are repeat violent offenders. These are not the “dreamers” or the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These are criminals with long, violent rap sheets — allowed to remain free by a broken system that prioritizes ideology over public safety.

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This is what people are rioting over — not the mistreatment of the innocent, but the arrest of the guilty. And in California, that’s apparently a cause for outrage.

The average American, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, is supposed to worry they’ll be next. But unless you’re in the habit of assaulting people, smuggling, or firing guns into people’s homes, you probably don’t have much to fear.

Still, if you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

The left has lost it

This is what happens when a culture loses its grip on reality. We begin to call arson “art,” lawlessness “liberation,” and criminals “community members.” We burn the good and excuse the evil — all while the media insists it’s just “vibes.”

But it’s not just vibes. It’s violence, paid for by you, endorsed by your elected officials, and whitewashed by newsrooms with more concern for hair and lighting than for truth.

This isn’t activism. This is anarchism. And Democratic politicians are fueling the flame.