Russia’s Top General: West Preparing for ‘Imminent’ World War 3

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Russia's top General warns of imminent World War 3 plans by the West

Russia’s top General Valery Gerasimov has warned the West are preparing for World War 3 against Russia amid a renewed NATO buildup in Europe.

Valery Gerasimov, Vladimir Putin’s top commander, warned senior military officials that the West are preparing for a “large-scale military conflict” and has assigned “adversary status” to Russia.

According to Gerasimov, NATO’s summit in London revealed the West’s desire for faster deployment to the “eastern flank.”

Dailystar.co.uk reports: NATO and Russia both have shipped tonnes of military hardware to the their frontier in eastern Europe.

Both regularly accuse the other of aggression over the build-up, and General Gerasimov warned this could accidentally spiral into conflict between Russia and NATO – World War 3.

Putin’s war boss said: “Work continues on the deployment of US missile defence components in Europe.

“In the Baltic countries and Poland, the Black and Baltic seas, military activity is intensifying, the intensity of the bloc’s military exercises is rising.

“Their scenarios point to NATO’s targeted preparation for engaging its forces in a large-scale military conflict.”

He accused the West of over-egging the “Russian military threat” amid the ongoing tension.

General Gerasimov said both Moscow and the West must reduce the risk of clashes.

It comes after a string of military incidents between the two sides, with warships and warplanes often “buzzing” each other in eastern Europe.

The general said: “The reduction of risks of dangerous military incidents should remain the most important area in the dialogue between Russia with the US and NATO.

“It is necessary to resume interaction between Russia and NATO in order to resolve the accumulated problematic issues.”

General Gerasimov said that a large-scale war could easily spiral out of a small conflict.

While there is no groundwork of a major war before 2050, he said, there could be conflict as it remains “unstable”.

He said: “There are currently no prerequisites for a large-scale war.

“At the same time, the situation in the world remains unstable, and its development is becoming more and more dynamic.”

General Gerasimov went on: “In such conditions, we can’t rule out that crises could emerge that may get out of control and develop into a large-scale military conflict

“Unprecedented political, economic and information pressure is exerted on states trying to pursue an independent policy, including Russia.”

“We must be prepared for any scenario of the development of the situation.

“Therefore, the defence potential of Russia will now and in the future be maintained at a level required to repel any-scale aggression against our state from any environment.”

It comes after Russia’s top diplomat Maria Zakharova accused NATO of stoking tensions with Moscow.

She said: “NATO continues to pursue the policy adopted and confirmed at the Wales, Warsaw and Brussels summits, which is aimed at raising tensions and ensuring NATO’s dominance in all areas – on the ground, in the air, at sea and in the cyber space.

“As far as we can understand, NATO allies have accepted the US demand to increase their military expenditures.”

Zakharova continued: “I would like to point out that their total military spending constitutes more than half of global expenditure and exceeds Russia’s by more than 20 times.”

Meanwhile, US Major General Barre Seguin said the alliance has to “reorientate” amid the threat from Russia.

He confirmed the US is to send 20,000 troops to Europe next April and May in its biggest military exercises on European soil since the Cold War.

The general said: “This really demonstrates transatlantic unity and the US commitment to NATO.”

US troops will win forces from 18 NATO allies to mass around 37,000 troops along the eastern flank.

Maj Gen Seguin said: “We have not demonstrated this ability to rapidly reinforce, from a transatlantic perspective, for 25 years or so.”

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  1. Gog and Magog will eventually invade Jerusalem per the bible. Gog and Magog are represented by the Russians and the Islamic armies, including Turkey, Iran, Iraq, etc.

    Long verse but here you go:

    Ezekiel 38-39 King James Version (KJV)
    38 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

    2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

    3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

    4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

    5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

    6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

    7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

    8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

    9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

    10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

    11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

    12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

    13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

    14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

    15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

    16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

    17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

    18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.

    19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

    20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

    21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

    22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

    23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

    39 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

    2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

    3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

    4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

    5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

    6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

    7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

    8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

    9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

    10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.

    11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

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