Newt says what this is is actually a world war and starts ticking off the evidence.
In three minutes - Newt catalogs the world.
What intellect the man has.
Newt really needs to reign his instinct to be a media whore. He is a professional Historian for god sake. This is the stupidest nonsense for any Historian to be uttering. This sort of Chicken Little Bombast really, really, really undercuts the intellectually and political credibility of the various Conservatives who are saying it. When this all settles out in a month or so with no where near any of the doom and glooms hysteric predictions being any where near accurate, these Conservatives are going to take a massive PR hit.
This is NOT WW3. OK everyone? This is vermin control or international gang warfare. Nazi German could conquerer whole countries and threatened the very structure of the International Political system. Even combining all the various 3 world thugs involved here none of them come any where near Nazi Germany's weight militarily, politically or economically.
Then there is the Military disparity between the US and all the various rouge states and terrorist groups. If push comes to shove we can annihilate their whole society in a very brief span of time. They can sucker punch, kill some of our people but NOT threaten our national survival. This sort of "World War 3" talk comes across and hysteric and bombastic. Conservatives should stop it.