Is Third World War in the offing?

The extensive building of islands by China at the Paracels and the Spratlys and its act of owning the whole West Philippine Sea, nee South China Sea, by way of its Nine-Dash Line theory as grounds for her territorial claims, are reminiscent of the Japanese aggression over Manchuria that happened in the late 1930's which started the Second Global war in the Asia-Pacific Region. The military offensives of Russia against Georgia and Ukraine to reintegrate them to the former Socialist Republic is gaining ground. As a matter of fact, Southern Ossetia, which is a part of Georgia, and Crimea, a part of Ukraine, already formed a section of modern territories in Russia as its Autonomous Regions, as a result of Russia's successful military offensives against the said less-militarily equipped states. These present military and geopolitical happenings in Eastern Europe are also evocative of the " blitzkrieg " of Adolf Hitler by Germany’s aggression over Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia which occurred in the late 1930's that torched the Second World War in Europe.

On December 7, 1941, when an American Military Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed by the Japanese Imperial Air Force, thereby killing more than two thousand (2,000) American military servicemen, officially conceived the greatest war, the Second World War. America then, under the leadership of a great leader, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had imposed a democratic and diplomatic strategy of appeasement to bargain peace but to no avail. That notable moment of history can happen again on the grounds of China’s engendered threats to protect every inch of their so-called territory, may consequently pulverized Philippines if the latter continues its territorial claims against the former. For China, the Philippine's move at the United Nations Arbitral Court of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) to invalidate its Nine-Dash Line claim exemplifies an establishment of ownership.

Under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty of USA and Philippines, each country has the right to defend each other if anyone of them is attacked by a foreign aggressor. If China will cast the die of its military offensive against the Philippines, the United States would then probably comply to fight in favor and defend the Philippines being its traditional ally and to protect its interest in the South China Sea that serves as a passage of Western Pacific and Indian Ocean and a strategic core of a large scale economic trade. If this happens, a Third World War would be imminent since Russia, a traditional international geo-political rival of the United States of America and North Korea, a communist country, with no hesitation would unite with China in their quest to defeat the USA and its allies. On the other hand, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries and the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization member countries would inevitably join the forces of the Philippines and the United States. On that account, the possibility of a Third World War can be seen on the horizon.

In connection with this, many Filipinos are appealing the international community that the recent international territorial squabbles involving China and its neighbors in the Far East be settled amicably. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1264359