BEIJING (AP) — China’s military said Thursday it will hold joint exercises with Russian forces in the South China Sea, following a recent arbitration ruling that rejected Beijing’s claim to almost the entire strategic body of water.
Willy Wimmer, former Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and member of the Bundestag, claimed that the Russian Su-24 was downed by the Turkish fighter aircraft over Syria with assistance of the NATO.
Russia could invade Poland “overnight” and easily overwhelm its Nato allies, a study has predicted.
“Even if Moscow currently has no immediate intent to challenge Nato directly, this may unexpectedly change overnight and can be implemented with great speed, following already prepared plans,” the Atlantic Council report warns.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is determined to contain Russia as it sees the country as a threat to allies and their territories. As tensions rise, NATO started expanding its missile defense system, but Russia is not standing idly by, as it is reportedly preparing to invade Poland in only one day. Will the world be at risk of a new World War?
In a situation of extreme tension with Russia provoked by NATO’s policy to “go east” while wars and terrorism rage to its south, the NATO think-tank Atlantic Council has unleashed UK Gen. Sir Richard Shireff to again demand outright war with Russia.
BRITAIN and its NATO allies face the prospect of nuclear annihilation if the West continues to “encroach on Russia” with expanded exercises in Eastern Europe, according to a top Kremlin official.
A senior Iranian military commander boasted that the Islamic Republic could “raze the Zionist regime in less than eight minutes.”
Ahmad Karimpour, a senior adviser to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite unit al-Quds Force, said if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave the order to destroy Israel, the Iranian military had the capacity to do so quickly.
World leaders have renewed their calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria after meeting in Vienna, hoping to restart peace talks aimed at halting Syria’s civil war.
The meeting in the Austrian capital on Tuesday was led by John Kerry, US secretary of state; Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister; and Staffan de Mistura, UN special envoy to Syria, as well as other leaders from the 17-nation International Syria Support Group (ISSG).
MOSCOW — As American and allied officials celebrated the opening of a long-awaited missile defense system in Europe with a ribbon cutting and a band, the reaction in Russia on Thursday was much bleaker and suggested the system had raised the risks of a nuclear war.
Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin, also known as “Vladimir the Ruthless” reiterated their position that the American-built missile defense shield compromised Russia’s security, and could be used for launching a quick, devastating first strike against Russia.
Igor Ivanov, ex-foreign minister to current President Vladimir Putin, says the risk of World War 3 in Europe is higher than at any time since the 1980s when the Cold War was at its peak.
Only this January, some of the world’s top boffins kept the dreaded “Doomsday Clock” positioned at three minutes to midnight – its closest to armageddon in 20 years.