Col Lawrence Wilkerson sees a 60-65% chance of war between Russia and Nato, provoked by 3 Nato states

He was Colin Powell's Chief of Staff and is more impressive than his cowardly former chief, who did not run for president for fesr of assassination and didn't resign in opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

'I think he's [Putin's] pretty much 60-65% sure he's going to have to go to war with NATO at some point. What that war is going to involve and how big it's going to become will be principally up to NATO because I don't think he will want to widen it after he punishes some little upstart NATO member. Uh there's three of them that come to mind immediately who are doing things they shouldn't be doing and supporting things they shouldn't be supporting whether it's US or British or whatever troops on their soil doing it or their own people doing it. So I think we're in a very dangerous situation here and I'm glad that Putin is in Moscow, frankly, because he is probably as circumspect a leader in the world as there is along with Xi Xing Ping with regard to this sort of thing. But he's not going to take it forever and ever. He's going to respond one of these days and he's going to respond in a way that he's gonna cause us to have to step aside, step back, move away or, you know, double down and I don't I still I can't figure out what Trump's strategic calculus is if he has one. I don't think he has one. I think he just acts.'

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