Barbie,
I'd like to discuss this in more detail but I'm getting ready to take the plane to Spain. The king of the mongols is Dzjengis Khan. With Nostradamus you're never sure what it means but it could mean CRUELTY. A muslim army of very cruel holy wariors.
I speak French where I work. It's not perfect but you wouldn't notice I am not a native speaker for a while. 1999 = mil neuf cents nonante neuf. I didn't understand your explanation about it.
World war 3 is busy already in my opinion. Osama Bin Laden started it. Country should rise against country. It wouldn't surprise me if some extremists kill the american president with an atomic bomb. Then the americans or the french take revenge and you get a massive killing of a lot of people in the middle east I suppose.
I didn't even know Taiwan and China had a conflict. But I believe you and I'm sure you might be right. A world war by definition is war all over the world of course. My best guess is a religious war between the muslims and ... the west. The pope in Italy is a good target for them I suppose.
I didn't ask for any vaccins. But biological warfare is certainly possible. Honestly, I don't think Belgium will have to suffer a lot from the war. But I might be wrong. I think if something happens in Europ it would be more the south of Spain or Italy. That is close of course.
In fact I got interested in Nostradamus because of 9/11. As I continued digging I combined my name with nostradamus and to my big surprise there is some quatrains.
Don't get this the wrong way now. There is lot's of people that have my first name and I'm no hero. I want to be as far away of that as I can. And nostradamus is also no exact science.
Anyhow, one of the quatrians of Nostradamus is this one. Or these ones :
X 89
Sept ans ƒera Philipp. fortune preƒpere,
Rabaiƒƒera des Arabes l'effort,
Puis ƒon midy perplex, rebours affaire,
Ieuƒne oignion abiƒmera ƒon fort.
For seven years fortune will favor Philip,
He will beat down again the exertions of the Arabs:
Then at his noon perplexing contrary affair,
Young Ogmios will destroy his stronghold.
Ogmios is something like Hercules from the greek. What it means that Young Ogmios will destroy the stronghold of Philip ? I don't know. In french it is "fort" which means the "strong" of Philip. Some translations talk about a fortified castle or so but that's not correct in my opinion.
Another one is VIII 81 - there is a third one in fact and in my opinion many others also about a big war.
This could be an atomic bomb on the United States. Sicily is in Italy. It could be muslims attacking ROme

VIII 81
Le neuf empire en desolation,
Sera changé du pole aquilonaire,
De la Sicile viendra l'emotion,
Troubler l'emprise à Philip. tributaire.
The new empire in desolation
will be changed from the Northern Pole.
From Sicily will come such trouble that
it will bother the enterprise tributary to Philip.
It's all just a guess and again, I only got interested because of a coincidence. I don't have any megalomanic ideas and I'm not Bruce Willis neither.
I really have to go. Maybe I'll have a look in spain in the hotel

Kaeren ( or Philip if you want ).
PS : Maybe this whole discussion is out of place in the crossdresser section