It is high time that China, North Korea, Iran and others use logic and realize that any future acts of aggression will be met by many of the free world’s nations joining the battle to ensure a peaceful world.

Would any country start a war now, knowing that the U.S., Canada, Japan, India, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and many others — including South Korea, Taiwan and Israel — would very likely join forces to stop it?

People must look at what is happening in Russia and Gaza, places where the populations have let bad actors run their governments. The international community can stop World War III. And it would certainly help if we all prayed for peace.



JOSEPH J. ROTHENGAST

Raleigh, North Carolina 

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