The WW3 Scenario: An Appeal to Sanity Michel Weber et al. 1 In March 1939, when Whitehead publishes an “Appeal to Sanity,” he seems to wake up from his political slumber. His analysis is dispassionate, even though he claims to assess his topic with the concept of emotion: To-day the world is plunged in this second phase of contagious emotion. […] The point to notice is that war, even if successful, can only increase the malignant excitement. The remedy is peace, fostering the slow growth of civilized feelings. (ESP 53-56) Strangely, Whitehead further invokes the possibility of a miracle to solve the crisis. No miracle saved the world from collective insanity in 1939; will history repeat itself in 2015? It is well-known that the late Whitehead has remained a Platonist of sorts for whom events are necessarily framed by a double strain: the uniformity of extension and the eternal objects. In order to become fully aware of the details of this well-tempered processuality, one needs to leave the cave of opinion and to contemplate the Idea of the Good. We rediscover then that our mundane beliefs were a minima very limited in their applicability and a maxima dangerously misleading. In today’s geopolitical world, the metaphor is simpler: as soon as Western propaganda is identified as such and properly deconstructed, the concerned citizen realizes that the world is actually upside down. On the one hand, Russia, with a population similar to Japan’s spread on a territory twice the size of the USA, is threatening nobody, while Vladimir Putin has been keen to foster all possible diplomatic venue to secure peace. On the other hand, the USA is desperately looking for new wars to distract its citizens from its bankruptcy, to salvage what can be of its atavistic imperialism, and to remain first in the race for what's left. 2 The ecological crisis is so dire that more and more scholars evoke the possibility of a near term human extinction: who could deny that this is without impact on the current international politics? The wheel is now running fast and the risk of a war between NATO and Russia involving tactic thermonuclear weapons is higher than it ever was during the cold war. The MAD doctrine does not hold anymore. On Dec. 04, 2014, the U.S. Congress passed H.Res.758 (“Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighbouring countries aimed at political and economic domination”) that amounts to a declaration of war on Russia. 3 Numerous claims are made against Russia, but no actual proofs are provided to support them. Hence the old trick that Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz often shares with his students: if the facts are on your side, pound the facts into the table; if the law is on your side, pound the