Opinion: Oh no, we're probably going to war soon.

Source: wallpoper.com

I'm watching the news just now when I see that a U.S. Navy destroyer has fired warning shots at Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. This is just another example of rising tensions between the West and East.

I long ago resigned to the fact that the Middle East will forever have instability due to the land disputes and corrupt governments that reside over there. More than 2 million people have fled the Syrian crisis alone, not counting the other countries which are currently under siege by ISIS or other forces that are traumatizing citizens.

Now, we have Iran. Iran is one of the more powerful Middle Eastern countries because they do have nuclear weapons, and we know it. Heck, we facilitated a deal with them to make sure their nukes complied with certain sanctions. It's no secret that the Iranian government is not big on the United States, and whether they should be or not, it's a fact that agitating them is not something we should be doing.

I did not hear why shots were fired. Were the Iranians being non-compliant to demands made by the United States? Were they breaking a law? Did they threaten to fire shots at us, and we retaliated to prevent it? I'm not 100 percent sure.

I'm not necessarily saying that the U.S. was wrong. Chances are, they were in the right if we are talking about the ships getting too close. I don't condemn the Americans for asserting their dominance. I just worry that things are getting worse, and this isn't going to go backwards.

With President-elect Trump's willingness to go to these places militarily, I've been saying it's only a matter of time before we go to war once we get through the inauguration. I'm hoping this does not speed up the war, nor put us in a conflict with Iran because that would truly be the end of the world. World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones because civilization will annihilate itself in the fight that World War III would give.