World War III is Possible – Ex-Russian President

The former president described the UK's newly appointed Defense Secretary Grant Shapps a "freshly minted cretin" over his idea of sending British military instructors to Ukraine to train local troops for the impasse with Russia.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has predicted that the World could face a Possible Third World War. He said the “Western idiots want World War III.”

“The number of high-ranking morons in NATO states is on the rise,” says Dmitry Medvedev.

Medvedev warned that the conflict in Ukraine may possibly lead to World War III because of the “idiots” occupying sensitive roles in the West.

“The number of high-ranking morons is rising in NATO member states,” he scripted on Telegram on Sunday.

Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, was reacting to statements from London and Berlin the previous day.

The former president described the UK’s newly appointed Defense Secretary Grant Shapps a “freshly minted cretin” over his idea of sending British military instructors to Ukraine to train local troops for the impasse with Russia.

If this transpires, the UK servicemen would become a “legitimate target” for Russian forces, Medvedev warned.

Shapps has proposed deploying instructors to Ukraine, “knowing fully well that they’ll be mercilessly destroyed, and no longer as mercenaries, but precisely as British NATO specialists,” the Russian official wrote.

Medvedev also labelled the head of the German parliament’s defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, as “another fool” after she urged Berlin to supply long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev. She further claimed that Ukrainian attacks on targets inside Russia using those German-made munitions would be in full compliance with international law.

“In this case, the [Russian] strikes on German factories where those missiles are being made would also be in full compliance with international law,” he said.

“Still, those idiots are actively pushing us towards World War III,” the former president concluded.

In a previous post on Saturday, Medvedev reiterated that Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine would continue until the current regime in Kiev is “destroyed and the historic Russian territories are liberated from the enemy.”

Moscow has repeatedly cautioned that deliveries of weapons to Ukraine by Western countries only prolong the fighting and increase the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO.

Russian officials have also argued that the provision of arms, intelligence-sharing and the training of Kiev’s troops already means that Western nations have de facto become parties to the conflict.

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