Whether a world war breaks out now or a little later depends on whether Washington thinks that it will be useful to them now, before the elections, or after. 

Judging by the gleeful silence of the American media, they are still deciding.

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A world war is bound to break out. And with almost complete probability, it will be in the Middle East. 

The question is what to consider the third world war. We tend to call the Crimean War ‘World War Zero’, although it was fought by a handful of countries and within one continent. Whereas the Seven Years’ War, which happened a century earlier, raged throughout Europe, and in India, and in Canada, and in the Philippines, and not only all powers, but even Indian tribes participated in it. Why is it not ‘World War Zero’ is a mystery to me. 

We participated in both, by the way. We lost one, took Berlin in the other. 

This one we’ll just watch. And thank God for that.

– RT editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan