{"id":1373640,"date":"2026-03-25T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/world-war-iii-is-just-around-the-corner-is-the-west-ready-for-war-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:57","slug":"world-war-iii-is-just-around-the-corner-is-the-west-ready-for-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/world-war-iii-is-just-around-the-corner-is-the-west-ready-for-war-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"World War III Looms: Is the West Prepared for a Clash with Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

Following reports about a potential \u2018hybrid\u2019 attack by Russia on Estonia or other Baltic states, discussions in Ukraine and the West have intensified. Analysts and policymakers are now seriously considering not only the possibility of a conflict between Russia and NATO but also the political collapse of the Alliance if its response proves insufficiently resolute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But most importantly, we began to realize that the very possibility of such a conflict, which poses a real risk of starting World War III, is linked to the inadequate response by Western countries to events in Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n

Then, for the first time since World War II, the Russian president went not just to occupy but also to annex part of another state’s territory. But the leading countries of the world\u2014the same signatories of the Budapest Memorandum\u2014tried to pretend that nothing extraordinary had happened in Crimea. If we recall the sanctions imposed against Russia by the administration of President Barack Obama and the European Union, it is easy to understand why the Kremlin did not heed the calls from Washington not to invade the mainland and instead started a war in the Donbas.<\/p>\n\t\t