Alois Irlmaier  ~

"Everything calls peace, Schalom! Then it will occur - a new Middle East war suddenly flames up, big naval forces are facing hostility in the Mediterranean - the situation is strained. But the actual firing spark is set on fire in the Balkans: I see a "large one" falling, a bloody dagger lies beside him - then impact is on impact. ..."

The Seer of Waldviertel  ~

"The 'total war' with American participation will take place first in Saudi Arabia when the Americans become involved in a great Middle East conflict; however they will do poorly. Russia will defeat America."

"In summer-like weather, the tidal waves in the Mediterranean Sea region, through use of nuclear weapons, will reach a very great height over the Adriatic originating from the North. The explosions are clearly noticeable here."

Erna Stieglitz (1894-1965) ~

"In summer, probably in the month of July if the oil regions are already in rather firm Russian hands, will occur the invasion by Russia upon the south and north flanks: against Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Scandinavia ... After the quick occupation of all military bases in Scandinavia, a second attack against Turkey follows. There and in Iran a great tank battle takes place. The Russian then strives to advance as quickly as possible through the Balkan Peninsula to the Adriatic Sea ..."

Technically the war in Syria is not yet over, although on the surface it appears to be largely focused on completing the task of wiping out ISIS entirely. Unfortunately the potential seeds of Syria War II or what could be designated as "The Great Middle East War" are already being planted.

The concept of a war that encompasses almost the entire Middle East and adjacent regions can easily be found scattered about in the quatrains of Nostradamus, but can also be found in conflicts covered in the prophetic Old Testament Books of Daniel, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel and as a necessary prelude to World War III in the works of several important European prophets of the 20th Century (shown above).

For Austrian prophets Alois Irlmaier and The Seer of Waldviertel, "the great war in the Middle East" breaks out suddenly and is ongoing at a time when horrific battles are fought in the Mediterranean Sea and Adriatic Sea using weapons so powerful that great tidal waves and floods result. The Seer specifically identifies Saudi Arabia as being a combatant in the future war and Arabia as one of the battlefields. Both the Middle East War and the naval battles prefigure a Russian-led invasion of Central Europe and Germany and a quickly resulting World War III. Irlmaier indicates rather murkily that the great war in the Middle East is not itself World War III yet is still a conflict which either 1) helps trigger it, 2) merges with it, or 3) is simply the last war before it happens. The Seer, on the other hand, includes the Middle East War as being part of the terrible "total war" ... a war that can only be World War III. Erna Stieglitz ironically supplies us with three of the other combatants in the war: Russia, Iran and Turkey. All three have been and remain deeply engaged in The Syrian conflict and Iran is also fighting a proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen. As to what war the naval conflicts belong is not entirely clear: The Middle East, World War III, or another preliminary conflict, perhaps one involving Greece against Turkey over Cyprus or one involving Italy and the Balkans. Whatever the naval battles are being fought over, the Seer identifies one of the navies using nuclear weapons as belonging to "the North": Russia.

The Syrian Civil War thus far is the largest war in the Middle East fought in modern times, covering Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and at times briefly the Jordanian border and Israel. Armies from Iran and Saudi Arabia have fought there as well. However, the war itself never spread to Iran and Saudi Arabia nor did it spread to Kuwait, Egypt, Yemen, Qatar, Oman, or the UAE. Even so, a proxy conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen has been ongoing during the Syrian war since 2015 and remains in progress. Two different wars technically. Nor did the war spread very deep into Turkey, mostly attacks were launched by air into towns in the southern portion. Likewise, some air attacks in northern Israel, and as noted air attacks and some military activity along and just inside the Jordanian border. Southern Iraq was also not a battleground. The spreading of the war into northern and part of central Iraq and Jordan's border was largely due to the involvement of ISIS in the conflict.

As I mentioned, we can already see the seeds of the next conflict, if there is a next conflict, already being planted. As long as Iranian troops remain active in the region, this alone could lead to a more devastating war.

Again, the dangers being sown:

1) Israel enters into a broader Syrian conflict because of continued air attacks on its northern soil or deeper by Iranian forces and other threats posed to it by Iran.

2) Israel enters into a broader Syrian conflict because of more intermittent rocket and missile attacks in the Golan and its north by Syria, regardless of whether they are accidental strikes or by design.

3) Israel is provoked into a positive and prolonged military engagement in Syria due to actions by Russia. A good example of a provocation that came close to this happening was the recent deployment by Moscow of S-300 anti-missile systems in Syria.

4) A proxy war in Yemen between Saudi Arabia and Iran leads to 1) an actual Saudi-Iranian War and 2) fighting between Saudi troops and Iranian forces moving into the territories of Iraq and Syria. As a result, the war in Syria merges with the Saudi-Iranian conflict, leading to a possible war in Turkey as well (Turko-Syrian-Iranian War).

Any broader Syrian conflict with Israel in the role as a military adversary would quickly become a MAJOR Arab-Israeli War. Not counting Israel's military adventures in against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, Hamas in Gaza in 2008-09, or the two Palestinian intifadas, the last major Arab-Israeli War was the First Lebanon War (1982-85). It counts because Israel was not only fighting groups inside of Lebanon but also engaged in combat against Syrian forces as well as the PLO. If not for the Syrian involvement, Lebanon would not have counted as the fourth (and so far last) Arab-Israeli war. The last major Arab-Israeli War that involved Arab states with large militaries would then be the 1973 Yom Kippur War (aka "The October War"). In that confrontation, Israel faced the huge militaries of Egypt and Syria and some smaller expeditionary forces from countries such as Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. This was the Third Arab-Israeli War and when I speak about a future Arab-Iraeli war I am talking about something as bad or much worse than 1973, although it could begin as a Lebanon style war fought inside of Syria.

Needless to say, a major Arab-Israeli war being fought in Syria at the same time as a Saudi-Iranian war and a Turko-Syrian-Iranian war also become inclusive to the region, and what would evolve would spread throughout the entire Middle East and far beyond.

The Role of Dreams

If one dream comes true it is possibly a coincidence. If two or more related dreams come true it is probably a glimpse of future events.

Beginning in 1994, I started having dreams that the United States would become embroiled in a conflict in Afghanistan that would stretch out for many, many years. I never saw the end of it.

Why? Who knows why? In 1994 and 1995 there was no reason imaginable under the sun why the US would go to war in Afghanistan. 

Yet, on October 7, 2001, following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, US forces were at war with Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The US remains at war in that country to this very day with no end in sight. Indeed, President Trump recently announced plans to mobilize additional American military forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Major battles involving US forces are intermittent, while operations continue on a daily basis. The last major battle involving US troops was in August 2018.

Were the dreams I had beginning in 1994 with Afghanistan being the first of a series of chronic US conflicts in and around the Middle East a coincidence?

Unlikely. Unlikely because the next series of dreams I had starting in 1995 was that the United States would go to war in Iraq and remain there even as war in Afghanistan continued.

As we well know, President George W. Bush ordered a US military invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. After the fall of Baghdad a war of occupation ensued until December 18, 2011. Although President Barack Obama withdrew US forces over the course of 2011, completing it by December, 20,000 troops remained in the country. By 2013, less than two years later, the US resumed flying surveillance aircraft in order to collect intelligence about insurgent Islamist fighters targeting the Iraqi government. On June 14, 2014, Obama ordered a large bulk of US forces to return to Iraq in response to offensives conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Air strikes began in August. Ground forces were engaged in Anbar province in December. For the most part the war has been conducted by air or coordinated on the ground with the Kurds. One such ground battle by US-Kurdish forces occurred in October 2015 in Kirkuk. More raids and air strikes followed in 2016. In summer 2016 the US deployed additional troops to Iraq. By this time the US was part of an international coalition arrayed against ISIL. A major battle and air campaign came to Mosul in December 2016. In March 2017, a US-led coalition airstrike in Mosul killed more than 200 civilians. More troops were deployed to Iraq. American forces came under attack several times in 2017, ISIL using terrorist tactics. Although ISIL has steadily lost ground and is fighting for its very survival, operations continue. On October 5, 2018, US-led Coalition planes bombed an ISIL position in the village of Kushaf near the Tigris river.

​Fifteen years and eight months ago, George W. Bush announced the beginning of the Iraq war. Two U.S. presidents, thousands of lives lost, a withdrawal and a reengagement later, American troops are still on the ground—and dying—in Iraq. There are no plans for withdrawal, even though the most recent foe there—ISIS—has been almost entirely defeated.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have killed over 500,000 people thus far with both conflicts continuing.

The next chronic conflict to make its debut in my dreams, starting in 1995, was IRAN ... to begin and continue even while US wars continued to be waged in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

This is where we have a problem, but then again not when one considers the fourth war dreamed about in the late 90's: Syria.

Syria was to follow Iran and it was to be a bigger and more deadly conflict than Afghanistan, Iraq, or Iran (all three ongoing at the time of the war in Syria). It would also bring in not only the US but also RUSSIA.

There is no question that war #4, Syria, with Russian involvement, has happened instead as war #3. The US became militarily involved in Syria in August 2014 and remains there to this day.

But what happened to Iran?? Is it possible that the order somehow got switched? Syria first, then Iran?

If so, Iran is the next big war to come and it will also last a long time. Or it represents the fly in the ointment: that prophecy is possible, but not without some margin of error. This could explain why there are so many quatrains penned by Nostradamus with three lines fulfilled but a fourth line never fulfilled or only partly fulfilled.

But the course of war with Iran was never entirely clear in my dreams. There were always a lot twists and turns on the part of Iran, incursions not involving the US, and close encounters at sea with the US before the first naval battles even began. Iranian involvement in the Syrian Civil War began in June 2013 ... one year before President Obama ordered US forces to return to Iraq to fight ISIL, and at a time when US aircraft began surveillance flights. The proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia has more than once threatened to pull in the US since 2015. A new war between Israel and Iran this year or in 2019 could also do the same. 

The rhetoric of war with America has heated up from Iran worse than ever in the past during the last few months. In any event, the US is committed to remaining in Syria as long as Iranian troops are there. 

2019 a dangerous base 7 year

Every seven years 1956 comes into remembrance for a possible repetition. A repetition of the autumn of 1956 in 2019 would likely be catastrophic. In October 1956, the Suez War (Second Arab-Israeli War) broke out. It was the only such war fought exclusively to Israel's south or, put another way, the only major Arab-Israeli war fought in the southern part of the Middle East. Egypt is not a belligerent at this time or likely to be soon. But the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran continues unabated. Is it possible that within a year's time the proxy war will become a full-blown Saudi-Iranian war with American and Russian participation?

The influence of 1956 becomes even more dangerous when we reach late October and early November. While war raged over Suez, a new crisis emerged in Hungary: The Hungarian Revolution. Like Ukraine in 2014, the revolution brought in Russian forces to stop the country from plunging into a full-fledged civil war. However, in Ukraine, the revolution mobilized pro-Russian civilians to wage a war of independence in eastern Ukraine, particularly in the Donbas region. That war continues to this day, although at a low level.

As the war in Ukraine drags into its fifth year, there is still no end in sight. Large swathes of the Donbas region remain under the control of separatists. A 500-km “contact line”, bristling with landmines, cuts through it. More than 10,000 people have been killed there since 2014. Casualties continue to pile up, although at a slower rate than in the past.

Ukraine demonstrates what can happen in the region that was worse than what happened in Hungary 1956. The next time Hungary's influence comes around it could well trigger World War III as the prophet Alois Irlmaier warned it would so often. Three assassinations in fairly quick succession, and two limited conflicts triggered by revolutions, the second or third (not clear) revolution/conflict triggering a Russian invasion of central and western Europe. World War III.

If the three prophets above mentioned are correct, the Middle East War and Balkans War will not occur or reach peak velocity in the autumn but rather in the summer, Stieglitz specifically indicating July and August. The Kosovar war vector from 1998, however, suggests trouble may begin by late February 2019, although if that is true there is no reason not to suspect it could begin at any time soon.

Again, where they are discussed, read my remarks concerning an increasing number of projected events occurring as much as two years and two months late. I believe this indicates we are in a period of historical correction (or base 7 correction).

Thus, this new war could begin as late as the April-December 2021 window. Nevertheless, it will appear under the 2019 Predictions.

The following text also appears as part of an update regarding a prediction applied to actress Angelina Jolie. This material is important enough to be a separate article on this blog.

I believe we have reached a period of historical correction or, if you will, a correction in the base 7 phenomenon. Events may follow a pattern of every 7 years or at least multiple of 7 years fairly consistently, then some of them may begin to deviate by a few years over the course of a decade or more until a new period of sevens is achieved. The deviation is inconsistent and many events will often retain their "every seven years" capability pretty much forever, while others stretch out and start a new period. How many events deviate may vary from period to period; more in some, less than in others.

For example, the two Yugoslav (Balkans) wars of 1991, the ten-day Slovenian Independence War begun June 26, 1991 and the Croatian War of Independence (Serbo-Croat War) begun October 1, 1991, resumed seven years later (actually six years and eight months later to be precise) in late February 1998 in Kosovo. No repeats occurred in 2005, but another seven years later might well have seen a new Balkans war or else a Balkans-like situation in the Middle East by either February or June 2012. 

A Balkans type series of protests and insurrections began with Arab Spring on December 18, 2010 (I predicted several years earlier that it would begin in Egypt in November 2010 for reasons other than the Balkans wars precedent ... I was only off by one month). 

Still this was not yet a war.

Like 1991, the wars in the Middle East began as two: 1) The Libyan Civil War begun February 15, 2011 and ending on October 23, 2012 (A Libyan Crisis continues there to this day) and 2) The Syrian Civil War, often wrongly said to have begun with the civil uprisings of March 15, 2011. The Libyan war began the same way, with protests, but within few days there was fighting with military equipment on both sides. Thus the start of the protests and the start of the war were the same. 

But not so in Syria.

The early insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War did not begin until July 29, 2011. However, it was the 2012–13 Escalation to Civil War in Syria, properly speaking, that marked the true start of the real civil war. A UN-mediated cease fire attempt during the end of the early insurgency phase (April–May 2012) deteriorated into radical violence, escalating the conflict level to a full-fledged civil war.
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"Following the Houla massacre of 25 May 2012, in which 108 people were summarily executed, and the subsequent Free Syrian Army (FSA) ultimatum to the Syrian Ba'athist government, the ceasefire practically collapsed, as the FSA began nationwide offensives against government troops. On 1 June 2012, President Assad vowed to crush the anti-government uprising. On 12 June 2012, the UN for the first time officially proclaimed Syria to be in a state of civil war. The conflict began moving into the two largest cities, Damascus and Aleppo."

One can say the civil war began in earnest with either the Houla Massacre (May 25, 2012), Assad's formal declaration of war on insurgents (June 1, 2012) or the UN official proclamation that a full state of civil war in Syria was now in progress as of July 12, 2012.

Despite this, the UN later issued a public statement that in their view the civil war should be retroactively regarded as beginning with the protests of March 15, 2011. This remains falsely in history articles and history books to this day. Indeed, in June 2012, there was a huge chasm of disagreement in the UN and international community that Syria had yet reached the stage of a full-blown civil war. Even in July 2012 the king of Jordan thought, at worst, that Syria was still only at the brink of civil war. The fact is that the Assad regime did very little else than engage in self defense measures until May 2012. There is no question what has happened since then.

My projection for the beginning of civil war in Syria was not until July 2013 ... based on the start of the third Yugoslav war, the longest one, the one in Bosnia and also on the start of the Spanish Civil War. Bosnia began in April 1992, Spain in July 1936. I chose July because I felt Spain was the real beginning of World War II and that Syria would be the real beginning of World War III.

So, The Syrian Civil War began a full year sooner than I anticipated. But it did in fact occur twenty-one (21) years after the start of the first two Yugoslav wars in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991 and fourteen years after the beginning of the War in Kosovo. I had a choice between using 1991 or 1992 as the precedent, but chose 1992 rather than 1991 (for reasons given regarding Spain's role in WW2 in 1936).

I also believed the character of the war in Syria would be similar to that of Bosnia: that it would be a war that lingered for nearly four years. In that I was both right and wrong.

And here is where the idea of a base 7 correction or historical correction comes in with late fulfillments of events.

I think we can agree that the whole Yugoslav mess began in 1991 and likewise the Syrian/northern Middle East mess commenced in 2012. We can also agree, however, that Syria most resembles Bosnia.

Even so, Bosnia ran from April 1992 to December 1995: three years and eight months. Even the Serbo-Croat war ended in November 1995, lasting four years and seven months. However you work it, the Syrian war should have ended by either March 2016 or else by February 2017. Yet, here it is November 2018 and it is still ongoing. It has run for over six years and four months.

What could have been the end of the war in March 2016 occurred during a partial cease-fire when Syrian government forces (SGF) with support from Russia and Iran successfully captured Palmyra from ISIL. However, peace failed to be maintained due to the Aleppo Summer Campaign begun in June followed by SDF advances and Turkish military intervention in August.

What could have been the end of the war in February 2017 was the collapse of yet another cease-fire, the Al-Badia school massacre by Russian and US air strikes, and the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack by Syria which resulted in a punitive US air strike with Tomahawk missiles against the Syrian government's Shayrat Air Base (condemned by Russia). This was followed by more attacks by SGF and Turkey, intense fighting near Hama, and Turkish air strikes.

A partial cease-fire was again achieved in July 2017 and lasted until December with some sweeping-up operations of liberation military moves. However, in January 2018 tensions broke out again with more fighting near Hama, the shooting down of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet by Syria, a Turkish attack on Kurdish held positions, and yet another chemical attack by Syria in the city of Douma. On April 14, 2018, the United States, United Kingdom, and France launched missile strikes on multiple government targets in Syria as a response to the Syrian chemical attack. In July a new attack by SGF and Russian forces was led against provinces on Syria's border with Jordan. In September, Israel struck multiple Iranian targets in western Syria and a Russian plane was shot down accidentally by Syria. Russia blamed Israel for the shooting down of the plane. Russia has since been arming Syria with its own deadly S-300 air-defense missile systems with much international opposition. Two days ago it was reported that Israel warned Russia it may target its S-300 missiles systems and yesterday Iran threatened to open up a new war against the US in Syria and Iraq.

Between the end of the Bosnian conflict until the start of the Kosovo War there was a period of over two years of peace (in 1996 and 1997). There has been no peace in Syria, especially one lasting for two years. A new Kosovo in the Middle East should begin in Syria in February 2019, but the Syrian War has never even ended.

The war in Syria has stretched out two years and eight months longer than Bosnia and three years longer than Spain.

This indicates a base 7 period of correction, an historical correction, may well be in place. Instead of a new war (like Kosovo) there may only be further escalation of the existing war in Syria and the adjacent affected regions of Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel with continued involvement of Russia, Iran, the US, the Kurds, and ISIS and similar groups. It may spread to Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.
By March 2020 it may become a NATO war ... and if that happens, spread north into the Balkans and ignite World War III. It may well last until 21 years after the end of the fourth and last Yugoslav conflict in Macedonia in 2001. That war ended on August 13, 2001. Thus, war can easily continue and escalate in the Middle East until August 2022 by which time it may or may not end. If the period of correction continues, it could extend out three years or more beyond that date (2025 or 2026?).

Then again the war in Syria may finally, and absolutely, end very soon. But even if it does, it has extended far beyond the limits of the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s or Spain in the 1930s.

Syria therefore is one of the signs we are in an historical or base 7 period of correction.

It may well be that the 2016 election of Donald Trump ushered in the base 7 correction and a new historical period.

Despite all this, for practical purposes I have noted singular repetitive events occurring no later than two years and two months beyond their projected dates. That will be our "statute of limitations" for the time being.

The 2017 Las Vegas shooting by gunman Stephen Paddock on October 1, 2017 is a good example. It was compared many times in the media to the University of Texas tower shooting by Charles Whitman on August 1, 1966. I had used the Whitman case as the precedent for a similar event happening again in August 2015 of a high altitude marksman shooting an even larger number of people on the ground than in Texas. I also said that the event would bring Charles Whitman's crime into remembrance.

But that event seemingly failed to happen ... until October 1, 2017. Total elapsed time after the August 2015 vector was exactly two years and two months. Note also that both events occurred on the 1st of the month.

There have been other cases similar to this in recent years, especially since 2012 and 2013.

It would appear then that 2 years and 2 months is perhaps the time of limitations beyond which an event cannot repeat unless it is repeating a different yet similar event from another timeline. But I will have to research this further. Usually though all is told within 18 months and often less. The Syrian War lasting as long as it has is the only example thus far of a three year delay with one possible reason being that the conflict may be the true beginning of World War 3.