Today in Dangerous Military Escalation - Creeping Towards Armageddon

Today in Dangerous Military Escalation - Popular Mechanics: "Hello, historians of the future. I can only assume you'll be reading about March 12, 2014, because it proved to be a crucial day that witnessed the escalation of nearly every world conflict. No matter what happens next—war, economic collapse, reordering of global power, or welcome but unlikely pullbacks from the brink—future analysts, pundits and students will want to know what the Western World was thinking as everything slid towards the abyss. Well, here's what's happening today."