The election of Donald Trump will lead to World War 3-Ex general

                                          

Donald Trump has said various things which delighted Vladimir Putin – and the Kremlin hailed his election.

But could the election of President Trump actually lead to conflict?

But General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander for Europe between 2011 and 2014, warns that having a President who is friendly with Russia – and not supportive of Nato – may tempt the Kremlin into dangerous moves.

In an interview with reporters, he said, ‘NATO depends totally on American leadership and American willingness to come to the aid of allies unconditionally.

‘Therefore, to have a president in the White House who is not necessarily prepared to do that weakens the alliance immeasurably and may well lead to [the] decoupling of America from European defense.

‘In terms of the risk equation for whoever’s sitting in the Kremlin, if he or she decides to have a go at the Baltic states, he may just decide, ‘Yeah I think the chances are I’ll get away with it.’And that, of course, makes the world more dangerous.

Shirreff wrote a book entitled 2017 War With Russia – which is fiction, but, he says, ‘entirely plausible’.

‘We need to judge President Putin by his deeds not his words. He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it.

‘In a period of tension, an attack on the Baltic states… is entirely plausible.’

NATO forces would be obliged to come to the aid of member states, he says.