An old conspiracy theory claiming that Confederate general and Freemason Albert Pike outlined plans for three world wars in an 1871 letter to Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini has gone viral once more.
The post alleges the Illuminati scripted history through these conflicts to establish a New World Order, with the third war leading to global chaos and enforced unity. Despite its popularity online, historians and fact-checkers widely dismiss the letter as a 20th-century fabrication.
