NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte has issued a very worrying statement warning that World War III is around the corner saying that “we are Russia’s next target.”
The former Dutch Prime Minister that Europe may be on the brink of war and the UK and the bloc must now prepare for war “on the scale of our grandparents and great-grandparents,” adding that this is not scaremongering, this is genuine threat.
Rutte said that he fears so many European leaders do not feel enough urgency to prepare for war and that NATO members must rapidly increase their defence spending and ramp up production of weaponry which could be a deterrent.
Rutte told a security conference event in Berlin, “We are Russia’s next target. I fear that too many are quietly complacent.
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“Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now.
“Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to Europe. And we must be prepared.”
This comes after the Russian Foreign Minister warning that future peacekeepers in Ukraine will be “legitimate targets for the Russian armed forces”.
Sergey Lavrov added, “They are still drumming up the conflict by establishing the so-called Coalition of the Willing’, by increasing their military expenditure and trying to save their own political future.
“They are ramping up Russia’s care, promote the ideas of a Russian attack in the future.
“They are still having and harbouring fantasies of sending their own military troops to Ukraine as to-called peacekeepers.
“But these so-called peacekeepers would immediately become legitimate targets for the Russian armed forces. The Europeans must understand that.”
On Wednesday Lavrov told the UK and Europe when Moscow will go to war with Europe and he accused Europe and Britain of being “openly destructive” over the peace proposal they made to Washington.
Lavrov said on Wednesday, “As the President [Putin] emphasised, we have no intention of going to war with Europe.
“We have no such intention.
“But we will respond to any hostile steps, including the deployment of European military contingents in Ukraine and the expropriation of Russian assets.”
In turn this will be a red line for the Kremlin, implying this would trigger World War III.
