{"id":4527,"date":"2022-06-28T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T05:46:23","slug":"any-advance-on-crimea-will-lead-to-ww-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/any-advance-on-crimea-will-lead-to-ww-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Any advance on Crimea, will lead to WW-III&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has warned World leaders that any advancement on the Crimea peninsula by a NATO member state could \u2018amount to a declaration of war on Russia which could lead to World War III\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor us, Crimea is a part of Russia. And that means forever. Any attempt to encroach on Crimea is a declaration of war against our country,\u201d Medvedev told Argumenty i Fakty, a news website owned by the city of Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd if this is done by a NATO member-state, this means conflict with the entire North Atlantic alliance; a World War III. A complete catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, also said that if Finland and Sweden joined NATO, Russia would strengthen its borders and be \u201cready for retaliatory steps,\u201d including the prospect of installing Iskander hypersonic missiles \u201con their threshold\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Courtesy Al Jazeera)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has warned World leaders that any advancement on the Crimea peninsula by a NATO member state could \u2018amount to a declaration of war on Russia which could lead to World War III\u2019. \u201cFor us, Crimea is a part of Russia. And that means forever. Any attempt to encroach on Crimea [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}