Why is Russian President "Putin" talking about world war 3 ??

[First77]

"A third world war could be the end of civilization," Putin went on, saying the high stakes "should restrain us from taking extreme steps on the international arena that are highly dangerous for modern civilization." Perhaps more than any other country, Russia has the nuclear capability to end the world. With around 7,000 nuclear weapons, and the most diverse and destructive nuclear arsenal, Putin could unilaterally decide to embark on a civilization-ending war.

The US and other Western countries sanctioned Russia in 2014 over its illegal annexation of Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea in Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual call-in question show contained broad talk of improving Russia's economy, the upcoming soccer World Cup - and some ominous warnings about World War III.

Putin frequently frames his country as resisting Western aggression designed to hold back Russia, often citing Western sanctions on the Russians economy.

But asked about those sanctions on Thursday, Putin said they were "because Russia is seen as a threat, because Russia is seen as becoming a competitor." "It is clear to us that we have to defend our interests, and to do so consistently, not boorishly or rudely, in both the sphere of the economy and of defence," said Putin. "The pressure will end when our partners will be persuaded that the methods they are using are ineffective, counterproductive and harmful to all."

When asked whether "non-stop" sanctions could lead to World War III, Putin pulled an Albert Einstein quote to deliver a dark warning. He said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," NBC News reports.

https://www.businessinsider.in

[KP Oli]

Both the world war started in Europe. And if we are to start a third one, the cause should be Europe.

[Liselotte_crypto]

If you want to control the masses fear is one of the best influencers. And what sounds more scary than a nuclear holocaust?

[Idaujotaite]

It’s called propaganda. He wants people to be scared

[First77]

It’s called propaganda. He wants people to be scared

Look at Russia Satan 2 (heaviest missile). See video time 3:10 https://www.youtube.com Look at the size of the giant missile      

[seoincorporation]

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Because fear means control. If you can make the people to be scared of a "probable" war, then they are going to be unable to think about anything else.
Besides, probably the society will approve their country to spend a massive amount of money on weapons, one of the most profitable markets worldwide. A war is an economical exercise where the industry is dedicated to creating a war in some other country and then to sell the weapons, so they make a lot of money.
Putin has been into the "war speech" for years by now. By creating a new power, nuclear in the Russian case, they are mind-controlling other countries.

I have to say it is "Orwellian" to me: "The war is peace", used to write Geroge Orwell, based on the principle of the fear as a mechanism of mind-control.
Maybe he was too right.

[Querubbin26]

With the apparent influence that Russia has over the president of the united states, I don't think that's the usual contender, so I wonder who's against him, Russia is a war machine but if they keep upsetting enough people they will come together to put a halt at they actions

[KingScorpio]

Both the world war started in Europe. And if we are to start a third one, the cause should be Europe.

you will still have violence, or life will be about who gets most attention, and there will be constantly crypto ad propaganda,

so expect at least urban strikes, on chosen targets, in a urbanised world.

[First77]

‘2 Israeli missiles’ strike near Damascus airport – Syrian state media

Two missiles have reportedly landed in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
It was not immediately clear if the missiles were intercepted or if they hit their intended target. There were also no immediate reports of any damage or casualties. Besides pinning the blame on Israel, Syrian state TV provided no further details on the alleged strike that took place on Monday night.

Damascus has repeatedly accused Israel of de-facto helping the terrorists and boosting their morale every time they lose ground to the Syrian government forces. Meanwhile, Israel, which rarely admits to its operations in Syria, maintains its right to intervene whenever it deems it necessary to thwart Iran’s growing influence and prevent the potential transfer of weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

https://www.rt.com/news

[mboileau]

The cause of Putin talking about a world war 3 is the economic competition it has with other countries right now he wants Russia to become the superpower that is why he is talking about World War 3.

[aziie110]

Russia is the old war champion and having lot of war instruments in the world and the old tiger of the world, it may be talking about world war 3 because they have lot of war instruments according to technology that approach them.

[VeteranCoin]

Russia has a strong military, especially its nuclear arsenal. One of the biggest advantages the Russians have over most of the world are submarines that can launch nuclear missiles. That's dam near close to impossible to defend against and the whole world knows it. But as a country, and a world-power, they are a shadow of what they once were because they spent all that dam money on the nukes. Those ain't cheap my friends. Guess who just figured that out? Rocket Man & Iran. It's not hard to get them stop building those because they are immensely costly to build, test, protect and maintain, etc, etc, etc. You can't just build them like an M5 and leave it sitting around. No sir. Way more goes into them than that!

Russia, they need to sound big and bad because on one level they are --the nukes-- and on the other level they are not --the ground war. Mostly they just like to scare the border countries so they can keep using them for whatever they want.

[BigBossWithNoMoney]

No wars should happen. The global society is getting more and more civilized. Internet wars - maybe.

[xtraelv]

Guys, Putin is not a Russia. Russia is bigger than you can ever imagine.
Good people, like everywhere. But our president...
Like someone said: the fish rots from the head.
If Putin said WW3 it does not mean that our people fee the same way. Peace.

I'm not scared that Putin will start a war. He is smart and his warning shows he doesn't want a war.

Instability in the Middle East, lack of educational opportunity and poverty are the biggest risks.

People who are educated recognize the danger and risk of war.

Help the poor - If you help them have job opportunities, food, clean water, medical care, adequate housing, education for their kids and feel safe then
they have little to be angry or fearful about. Every human should have an adequate level of living and live in a safe environment.

I'm not saying poverty is the cause of war - but inequality often leads to wars.

I don't have a solution for the middle east - but I think less meddling by foreign powers there will help.

[Divine.bc]

Nothing from this article made Putin sound unreasonable in my opinion. The only thing that I really didn't agree with was the last line about Russia building a doomsday device. I don't like that idea at all. Sometimes things malfunction and I don't want this doomsday device to malfunction, blow up half the world and then set the rest of the world at each others throats.

[Starfranko]

A world war 3 is in nobody's interest not the Russians nor the West and it will be in the interest of global peace and global brotherhood if leaders from both sides of the divide can stat thinking of ways of resolving the lingering bitterness between the western block and the eastern block

[joebrook]

A world war 3 is in nobody's interest not the Russians nor the West and it will be in the interest of global peace and global brotherhood if leaders from both sides of the divide can stat thinking of ways of resolving the lingering bitterness between the western block and the eastern block

No one is willing to be the cause of a global incident that has the probability of wiping all lives of the planet and i believe Putin himself have lots to lose if he instigate and bring about the third world.

[Ogunkanmish]

It’s called propaganda. He wants people to be scared

Scared of death?  Smiling.. I think he want to control the world.

[yoseph]

It’s called propaganda. He wants people to be scared

Scared of death?  Smiling.. I think he want to control the world.

He knows himself that it's not possible to control the world especially when you have countries like USA and China around, I rather believe that he is making such utterances to deter people from even thinking about attacking him.

[B1tUnl0ck3r]

because the nazi americans want to impose gmos worldwide and try everything they can to subjugate russia to then rape all the russian underage they want.

simple as that... putin doesn't agree with the plan of the american nazis (nazi = national SOCIALISTs).