The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has suggested that we are heading for World War Three
According to Gorbachev, Brexit could destroy the EU and spark a new European war.
He warned that the former UK prime minister, David Cameron. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are trying to start a Third World War, “a very brutal and bloody conflict”, accusing US president – Donald Trump.
Bannon, 63, masterminded Trump’s campaign for the presidency and now holds significant power and influence in the White House.
He believes firmly that there are huge and fundamental shifts taking place in America and the West more broadly, and that its “Judeo-Christian” value system is at risk of destruction.
“I’m actually energised …You’ve all read history books since you were kids. And you all think hey, if I was there during the Civil War, I’d be right in the middle of it. Or if [it] was the Revolution, I would be right there.”
“On World War Two or the Great Depression, all that stuff…I would be there. I’d be in Normandy, I’d do all that. We have that opportunity today…There are so many people who believe in what we believe and understand when you start talking to them, and engaging them, that we’re not cloven-hooved devils. We’re not nativist, homophobic, racist, right.”
” A global war, and it is, unfortunately, something that we’re going to have to face, and we’re going to have to face very quickly…there is a major war brewing, a war that’s already global.
“It’s going global in scale, and today’s technology, today’s media, today’s access to weapons of mass destruction, it’s going to lead to a global conflict that I believe has to be confronted today. “Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is, and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it, will be a day where you will
“Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is, and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it, will be a day where you will rue that we didn’t act.
He believes the crisis of capitalism is that the economic system is fundamentally rigged in favour of the big banks, which gamble taxpayer money risk-free and enrich themselves while making everybody else worse off, while a spineless political establishment kowtows. He told the audience at The Vatican.