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WORLD WAR III?


WORLD WAR III?

NATO WARNS "REAL POSSIBILITY" OF ALL-OUT WAR WITH RUSSIA HOURS AFTER NEW PUTIN NUKE THREAT.


In one of its most dire warnings to date, NATO's Secretary General has said the Ukraine war could spin out of contol and escalate into a full-blown conflict between the military alliance and Vladimir Putin's Russia - raising fears of a potential Third World War. Asked about his biggest fear this winter, Jens Stoltenberg told the Norwegian broadcaster NRK: "I fear that the war in Ukraine will get out of control, and spread into a major war between Nato and Russia."

While he said he was confident that such a situation would be avoided, Mr Stoltenberg, a former Prime Minister of Norway, said in the interview that "there is no doubt that a full-fledged war is a possibility," adding that it was important to avoid a conflict "that involves more countries in Europe and becomes a full-fledged war in Europe."

"I understand everyone who is tired of supporting Ukraine. I understand everyone who thinks that food prices and the electricity bills are far too high.

"But we have to pay a much higher price if our freedom and peace are threatened through Putin winning in Ukraine."

Vladimir Putin upped the ante on Friday, warning that any nation daring to attack Russia with nuclear weapons would be wiped off the face of the earth.

Waving his own military arsenal, the Russian leader said his country's advanced hypersonic weapons would ensure Russia would respond forcefully to any threat.

The escalating rhetoric comes days after Jens Stoltenberg stressed the importance of continued NATO support to Ukraine as it faces Russia's war of aggression.

In an address to the Financial Times' Global Boardroom event via video link, he said: "Russia is trying to freeze the conflict" in order to "regroup and launch a bigger offensive later on because Ukraine now has the momentum."

The NATO chief repeated that Ukraine would decide on the timing and contents of any negotiation with Russia: "The more we want a peaceful solution, the more urgent it is that we provide military support to Ukraine."
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11th December 2022.

UPDATE: DESPERATE RUSSIA MAY BE 'TEMPTED' TO USE NUKES AS ITS 'WILLING TO BLEED' FOR UKRAINE.

EXCLUSIVE: As Russia escalates tensions with the West and plans to bring nuclear weapons to Belarus, an expert warned a Kremlin nuclear attack isn't "impossible".

By ALICE SCARSI
11:01, Sat, Apr 8, 2023
Russia may be "tempted" to use nuclear weapons if "it gets desperate", a security expert believes. Patrick Porter, professor of international security and strategy at the University of Birmingham, noted there is an "imbalance of resolve" between the West and Russia when it comes to Ukraine.

While the US, the UK and the countries who have sided with Kyiv in the wake of the Kremlin's invasion of the Eastern European country are not directly involved in the conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin has a lot invested in winning the conflict with Ukraine, Professor Porter said.

Russia, he noted, is willing "to bleed" to triumph in the neighbouring country it invaded 14 months ago.

Professor Porter told Express.co.uk: "One of the problems here is an imbalance of resolve, whatever else we can say Russia cares more about Ukraine than we do, because we're not fighting there, Russia is fighting there.

"Russia is willing to bleed. It might be tempted, if it gets desperate, to use that to his advantage and say, well, we are willing, for example, to destroy a city in Ukraine, and to take that risk to show that we are willing to go all the way and, in a sense, play a very terrible game of chicken."

A potential nuclear attack by Russia in similar circumstances may consist of a "strategic strike", targeting a minor city in Ukraine or a harbour rather than Kyiv or a military base.

He explained: "And there's lots of other speculation about what they might do, whether it will work militarily, my bet would be it would be more of a so-called strategic strike, not so much used to destroy, say, a military formation or a fleet, but rather to ensure a psychological advantage, and to take it to the threshold where we wouldn't dare match it.

"And one of the problems here is that people think it's crazy. They think it's irrational thinking, they think it's a miscalculation, and all those things might be true."

Referring to how an invasion of Ukraine by the Kremlin seemed unlikely even on its even in February 2022, he continued: "But as Putin showed in February, just because you shouldn't do something, doesn't mean you won't do it. And so we need to imagine circumstances in which they might be tempted."
















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