The US and the Buildup of World Crises: Fiscal Reasons

... world leading nations and key centres of power, even potentially involving the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The first one was the crisis around the Korean Peninsula, which reached its height between March and May 2013. The other one was Syria, where the active phase continued from early August until mid-September 2013. In both cases, the main escalating force behind the conflicts was the United States, which mobilized all of its informational, as well as political and military, resources ...