“there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” (Matthew 24:7)
The natural sequence of events from war are famines from disruption of food production and distribution, pestilence from lowered immunity and lack of medical care.
At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project. That figure exceeds those displaced by conflict since 1900, the authors say, with the exception of World War II.
The report accounts for the number of people, mostly civilians, displaced in and from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria, where fighting has been the most significant, and says the figure is a conservative estimate — the real number may range from 48 million to 59 million. The calculation does not include the millions of other people who have been displaced in countries with smaller U.S. counterterrorism operations, according to the report, including those in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Niger.
“This has been one of the major forms of damage, of course along with the deaths and injuries, that have been caused by these wars,” said David Vine, a professor of anthropology at American University and the lead author of the report. “It tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don’t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms.”
America is responsible for over half of the displaced persons in the world, of the total 65 million people currently displaced because of violence, conflict and persecution—more than any other time since World War II.
Increased migration and the spilling of conflicts beyond borders has led to a proliferation of, and interest in, “fragile states”—states defined by “the absence or breakdown of a social contract between people and their government.” By 2030, between half and two-thirds of the world’s poor are expected to live in states classified as fragile. While a decade ago most fragile states were low-income countries, today almost half are middle-income countries.
Consequent to displacement from stable society, the number of hungry people in the world is on the rise. In 2016, 815 million people were undernourished, an increase of 38 million people from 2015. Almost 500 million of the world’s hungry live in countries affected by conflict.
The number of people who are acutely food-insecure (in need of emergency assistance) rose from 80 million in 2016 to 108 million in 2017—a 35 percent increase in a single year.
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.”
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when…?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matthew 25:31-40)
As of 2025 the plight of Palestinian Muslims and Christians have focused the entire world’s attention to this matter and are bringing to bear all the hallmarks of the last days.
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When the Allies put a stop to holocaust of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, England – in one of its last gasps of a world empire – established the State of Israel through the Balfour Declaration as a homeland for the millions of survivors. Applause, applause, right?
Actually, the real reason was not nice at all. It was to keep an influx of unwanted Jews into the White-dominated nations. As detailed in the relevant post, the reason for the “Final” Solution of the holocaust was because, while Germany was willing to kick the Jews out of Germany, other countries refused to allow the Jews to immigrate to their nations – America most of all.
In order to serve the antisemitism of their White supremacist nations America and England and France, the 1948 Palestine war was imposed upon the Palestinians to seize their land – exactly as Germany had done to the Slavs, America had done to the Native Americans, and all nations have done to their neighbors since the beginning of nationhood.
Around 700,000 civilian Palestinians, about 85% of the total population within the territory Israel captured ONLY with the political and financial support of the White nations, were
- killed in dozens of massacres such as the widely publicized Deir Yassin massacre and typhoid epidemics caused by Israeli well-poisonings,
- directly expelled by Israeli forces,
- forced into becoming refugees in neighboring countries by
- destruction of Arab villages
- crop burnings,
- and psychological terrorism.
The Davidka mortar was a “favorite weapon of the Zionists”, a shell containing 60 lbs. of TNT thrown usually into crowded built-up civilian quarters causing a frenzy of fear and panic” “indiscriminate and designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants” objective was “to create a mass flight”.
Many historians consider that the events of 1948 were an instance of ethnic cleansing.
Wait, this photo is from 2024, not 1948.
Still happening.
Since October 2023 Israel’s brutal military offensive had killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, including over 13,300 children, and injured over 97,000 more, by October 7, 2024. It has caused unprecedented destruction, which experts say occurred at a level and speed not seen in any other conflict in the 21st century, leveling entire cities and destroying critical infrastructure, agricultural land and cultural and religious sites. It thereby rendered large swathes of Gaza uninhabitable and created conditions of life in Gaza of a deadly mixture of malnutrition, hunger and diseases, and exposed Palestinians to a slow, calculated death. The cumulative impact of its policies and acts is genocidal intent and ethnic cleansing of the territory as the only reasonable conclusion.
August 2025 Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip and launch a ground offensive from there in order to take military control of the entire strip despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war.
“Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and…And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them…Because they have committed villany in Israel…and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.” (Jeremiah 29:17-23)
Hunger is an issue in every country around the world, but some countries experience it at larger levels of crisis than others. Based on the 2024 Global Hunger Index, published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, these are the ten hungriest countries in the world in 2024, primarily due to prolonged conflicts with population displacement and/or inability to maintain stable food production in Third World agricultural economies.
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The country ranks highest in the 2024 Global Hunger Index for undernourishment, which affects over 53% of the country’s population.
- The Central African Republic, population 6.1 million, one out of every four people are displaced and one-third of the country is hungry. of 6.1 million, nearly one out of every ten children won’t live to see their fifth birthday, and 40% are stunted due to malnutrition.
- Liberia over 38% of the population are undernourished.
- Niger, due to poor nutrition, over 47% of all children have stunted growth, 11% of all children have child wasting, nearly 12% of all children do not live to see their fifth birthday.
- Haiti – over 50% of the country undernourished.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo crisis-induced economic problems cost of basic food was 51% higher than last year’s rates, and 101% higher than the five-year average, with nearly 75% of the country living below the international poverty line.
- Madagascar – recurrent droughts and cyclones attributed to climate change on agriculture with stunting affecting nearly 40% of all children, undernourishment affecting nearly 40% of all adults and children.
- Chad – more than one out of every ten children not reaching their fifth birthday, 17% of the country are facing hunger.
- Yemen which relies on imports for 90% of the country’s main staple (wheat) and 70% of its other food needs, has faced severe food shortages due to conflicts. Child stunting rates (nearly 49%), child wasting rate (over 16%), and undernourishment rate (over 39%). Progress towards ending hunger in Yemen has been stalled for two decades.
- Somalia – Out of a population of 18.7 million people 4.8 million people require nutrition support, and an additional 4.3 million would require humanitarian assistance in the area of food security with child wasting rate nearly 12%, undernourishment rate over 51%, and the third-highest child mortality rate over 10%.
Pestilences naturally occur from crowding into refugee camps lacking adequate sanitation as well as lowered immunity from malnutrition, but biological warfare is also a factor.
The character of biological warfare is currently undergoing a substantial change. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how effectively fears of infection can close down societies, sow mistrust among allies, and create political turmoil. Future biological wars may use the same dynamics to inflict shock and confusion upon the enemy by the mere threat of mass casualties, thereby circumventing several previous limitations of biological warfare.
In the 21st century, large-scale political conflicts will not be limited to armed struggles but will encompass all of society. Battles of psychological influence will escalate. What is and what is not war will be increasingly difficult to say.
Fears of a health crisis can tip an entire society into turmoil, in turn opening several other vulnerabilities. For example, an outbreak of infectious disease can push people to work and live in the digital sphere where they will be sensitive to cyberattacks and technical breakdowns. It is becoming clear that a biological attack, however small, may still reach effects at the strategic level by shifting the target for biological weapons away from military contingents toward the whole of society.
The metaphor “fog of war” characterizes the uncertainty and confusion surrounding battle. Nowhere has this confusion been more prominent than today’s conflicts increasing use of nonmilitary means of warfare, often difficult to discern from criminal activity, recreational hacking, or accidental events.
Hypervigilance among government agencies toward biological threats can be a vulnerability in itself, carrying the risk that small natural outbreaks of benign pathogens will trigger massive lockdowns, which prove financially costly, and risk attenuating the response once a real threat emerges. Finding out fast and with high precision what exactly caused a set of suspicious deaths or a disease outbreak before it becomes clickbait and fuels hysteria will be critical. Ramping up medical intelligence efforts to include frontline methods and top expertise in molecular biology is thus of paramount importance.
Earthquakes are among nature’s most common and most destructive forces. The panic caused by Amos’ earthquake must have been legend in Jerusalem, because 230 years later Zechariah associated his prophecy of doom with that terrifying event.
And wouldn’t you know, the Middle East is as full of potential earthquakes as a mined battlefield.
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25 February, 2023 Death toll climbs above 50,000 after Turkey, Syria earthquakes
In Turkey alone, 44,218 people died as a result of the earthquakes, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Friday, while the latest announced death toll in Syria was 5,914.
The first earthquake on February 6 that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria measured a magnitude of 7.7 and a second, a little later, measured 7.6. The region has been rocked by more than 9,000 aftershocks since, according to the AFAD.
Nearly 240,000 rescue workers, including volunteers, continue to work in the 11 quake-hit provinces in Turkey. Some of the areas affected by the quakes were initially difficult to access but recovery efforts continue and casualty numbers are rising as they progress.
Nearly 530,000 people have been evacuated from the disaster area in Turkey alone…with more than 1.9 million people taking refuge in temporary shelters or hotels and public facilities.
We can consider the reference to “earthquakes” by Jesus in the Middle East as a local colloquialism for “natural disasters”.
As a major disruption to society equivalent to being bombed, the most common American way to rank the damage caused to society by these natural disasters is financially.
Between January 1980 and July 2020, the United States experienced 273 climate and weather disasters causing more than $1 billion in damages each, according to NOAA. The total cost of damages from these disasters exceeded $1.79 trillion. CBO estimated that federal disaster assistance covered, on average, 62 percent of the damage costs. GAO has reported that the rising number of natural disasters and reliance on federal disaster assistance is a key source of federal fiscal exposure.
As the record-shattering 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close, experts estimate that the five hurricanes and one unnamed subtropical storm that made landfall in the United States caused an estimated $500 billion in total damage and economic loss.
Kingdom Come 