This opinion was expressed by the former Deputy head of the Alliance.
The Alliance is at risk to engage in nuclear war with the Russian Federation in 2017.
This opinion was expressed by the former Deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe General Richard Sherriff.
The Sheriff is the author of the book, where the war between Russia and the Western world will begin in 2017. But today, in an interview with BBC Radio 4 he called a script, that seemed to be fantastic by now “quite likely”.
The General noted that one of the frightening factors is that Russia binds “nuclear thinking” with all aspects of self-defense, and that means that the war will be nuclear.
Citing the example of Putin’s actions in Georgia, Crimea and other part of Ukraine, in the Donbass, the Sheriff noted that it is likely an attack on the Baltic States in the period of tension”.
He suggests that will be used in Crimea, and its actions Russia will disguise under the “protection of the large Russian-speaking communities”.
On such predictions of Sherriff has already responded in Russia. Thus, the head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov called the General mad.
“Former zamglavy NATO admitted the possibility of nuclear war with Russia in the coming year. It seems that this work take some madmen,” he writes.
