Has the third world war started?

A year of living dangerously

"We are in a third world war whose beginning we cannot define exactly, future historians will debate when exactly it began. It is a process that develops quietly and gradually, extending from one battlefield to another, far from each other, and yet the impotence of politics and the strength of the economy, which has assumed primacy, are evident in all." — Günther Grass, "Vreme", November 13, 2014.