What a great way of putting it!
Actually, for months now, I have had the feeling that the entire world is essentially doing nothing but waiting for the other shoe to drop. The problem is that it's hard to say when/where it will drop (too many possibilities) or how the battle lines will fall when it happens.
On the face of it, I'd say it would be the entire Muslim world against the non-Muslim world. Yes, I guess that would qualify as "doom." But I have a tendency to pessimism, and hopefully, this is just a product of my over-active imagination.
There may be a few exceptions to 'the entire Muslim world'. In particular secular Turkey seems likely to be neutral at worst in this struggle.
What many westerners fail to realize about Islam is that it is NOT just a religion. It is a sociological/economic/political philosophy using "religion" (and I use that word "religion" with the broadest of definitions) bent upon World domination. Convert or die! That is their message.
The sooner the non-Muslim world accepts that the sooner we can defeat destroy this insidious philosophy.
And I for one don't think you are being pessimistic. I think you have a firm grip on reality. There is no other major philosophy that teaches a quick way to heaven/nirvana is to kill "non-believers". Islam at it's core is evil and bent upon our destruction.
The best defense is a swift and overwhelming OFFENSE!
Yes. I have a sense of waiting here as well.
Several years ago I took my aunt to visit some friends that she had known for years and gone traveling with. They were a couple in their 80s, but vigorous and sharp. They had been married for 60 years and had gone to Europe for a Church World Youth Convocation in 1939. I asked them if they had had a sense of the immanence of war at that time. They said that everywhere they went in England, Holland, and Denmark, that people had a sense that the other shoe was about to drop.
In my lifetime, I haven't felt the underlying unsettleness of the center not holding as it has since 9-11. The enemies of the settled governed world are seeing their chance and we are in for a fearsome ride.