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Russia Urges Prevention of ‘Full Scale World War III’ – Official Warns ‘World Tensions Are White’ – Finance Bitcoin News
A top Russian official has called on all countries to make efforts to ensure that “the threat of global confrontation, of a hot, full-scale third world war” does not materialize. “The tensions in the world are actually white-hot,” he warned.
Russian official: Full-scale World War III should not materialize
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, called on all countries to make efforts to avoid the outbreak of a new, full-scale global conflict on Tuesday, while addressing the participants of the Znanie (Knowledge) Marathon.
“I can’t say what the last straw, what the trigger might be. But it may happen at some point,” he told Russian news agency Tass. The official stressed:
We must all work to ensure that this threat of global confrontation, of a hot, full-scale World War III, does not materialize.
Commenting on the current conflict between Russia and Western countries, he stressed that Russia has no desire to see a war break out.
However, he said, “But the tensions in the world are really white-hot.”
The Russian official noted that he and his friends “used to talk about confrontation with the United States, about confrontation between the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Alliance:
At the time it seemed like some kind of hypothetical, far-fetched and impossible scenario. But I can’t say that now, as sad as this sounds.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said this week that anti-Russia sanctions would have a damaging impact on the global economy, with the potential to trigger a global financial crisis. To reduce its dependence on the USD after the US seized around $300 billion of its foreign reserves, Russia is pushing for BRICS to gain global influence. The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are also working on creating a currency.
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