A brief trip around the world with particular attention to the world's exotic trouble spots Earth
	Crisis Wars vs Mid-Cycle (interim) Wars   Crisis Wars -   Rwandan War - 1994 -   Balkan War - early 1990s -   Cambodian killing fields - 1970s -   World War II -   70-90 year cycle   Mid-Cycle Wars -   World War I -   Vietnam War
	Crisis Wars vs Mid-Cycle (interim) Wars   Crisis War Characteristics -   Visceral cause - fury, fear that nation in danger -   High energy: preparation, pursuit, revenge -   Bottom-up - effort driven by the people -   Minor anti-war (pacifist) movement -   Targeting civilians - genocidal -   Outcome: Major political, structural, boundary changes   Mid-cycle War Characteristics -   Political cause -   Low energy: surprise, defense, revanche -   Top-down - Effort driven by the political leaders -   Dominant anti-war (pacifist) movement -   Political protection of civilians -   Outcome: Little real change; "Internal revolution"   Sex and Genocidal Crisis Wars -   Both are human needs -   Both are irrational -   Both occur regularly -   Both are essential to survival of the fittest -   Sex increases population, genocidal war selectively reduces population
	Western and Eastern European Timelines Crisis war timelines for Western Europe and for Orthodox Christianity vs Muslim Civilizations
	Iraq Iraq   From 'austerity' to 'awakening' -   Only one generation past Iran/Iraq war, 1980s -   Civil war is almost impossible (99%)   Terrorist acts -   Actions of individuals and small groups -   Possible 'Tet offensive' near June 30 Periods in cycle - #years approximate
	Iran Iran   Like Iraq - Only one generation past Iran/Iran war, 1980s   Pro-American riots and demonstrations since 1999 - overthrow mullahs?   Is Iran developing nuclear weapons?
	Mideast   Palestinian Arabs vs Iraqi Muslims -   "If provoked they'll start a war, but if we're careful they won't" -   Different places in generational cycle   Recent history -   Replaying 1936-1949 -   Ariel Sharon versus Yasser Arafat   From 'unraveling' to 'crisis' -   Sharon's Disengagement - Wall -   Assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin -   Suicide bombings as moderation -   Regional war almost mathematically certain (99%) Periods in cycle - #years approximate
	Haiti   Early history of Haiti French-oriented Haiti occupies about 1/3 of the island of Hispaniola, not far from Florida, and the Spanish-oriented Dominican Republic occupies 2/3. -   1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola -   1700s - Wealthy French colony - 500K slaves   Market-dominant minority vs majority -   French-speaking light-skinned mulattos, mixed blood -   Creole-speaking blacks (noirs) - 95% of pop   Massacres in twentieth century -   1915 - Crisis civil war -   1915-34 - American occupation -   1937 - Massacre by Dominican Republic's Trujilo -   1960s - Massacre by Dr. Francois Duvalier   Today's crisis period - 1992 to present -   Malthus effect - food becomes more expensive -   War postponed by money infusion -   Analyst predictions: Occupation for 20 years
	Korea North and South Korea   Korean vs German Unification -   Both partitioned after World War II -   Different places in generational cycle -   Korean war (1950-53) armistice after stalemate   Impending reunification war -   Kim Jong-il: "Embargo means war" -   South Korean youth: Blaming America for partitioning
	Japan Japan   1853-68 - Commodore Perry to Meiji Restoration -   Change in national character ('national lobotomy') -   1894-1910 - Imperialist wars with China and Russia -   Won Taiwan, Korea, southern Manchuria   1930-45 - World War II -   1930 - Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -   1931 - Invade Manchuria -   US / League of Nations oil embargo -   Invade China -   1941 - Bombs Pearl Harbor -   Becomes pacifist nation
	China China   History of rebellions -   1796 - White Lotus Rebellion -   1851-71 - Taiping Rebellion and others -   Population: 410 million to 350 million -   1934-49 - Mao's Long March, crisis civil war -   1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan   The Miserable Generation ('Baby boomers') -   1950s -- All lawyers executed -   1958-60 Great Leap Forward - 10s M deaths -   1966-76 Cultural Revolution - indoctrination   Awakening to Unraveling -   1989 - Tiananmen Square massacre -   1992 - Birth of Falun Gong -   2000 - Over 100 million adherents of Falun Gong   Unraveling to Crisis -   Income disparity - rural peasants vs city workers -   Collapse of Mao's structure - migration to city -   Financial bubble -   Taiwan reunification crisis
	Taiwan Taiwan   "Wild Lily" generation -   Wild Lily rebellion - 1990 -   Develop Taiwanese (vs Chinese) identity -   2000: Election of Chen Shui-bian from Democratic Progressive Party -   Moving away from China
	Vietnam French Indochina: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos   French Indochina -   1882-93 Crisis war between France and China -   1954 French driven out by Ho Chi Minh   Vietnam War - 1965-75 -   Crisis war for Vietnam -   Mid-cycle war for America   Cambodia / Laos Civil War -   Crisis civil war -   Massive genocide and starvation (killing fields) Periods in cycle - #years approximate

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