'World War 3 has started but the West won't admit it' warns ex-White House advisor

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World War Three has already started, we just don't want to accept it.Fiona Hill, an expert on Putin's Russia, believes we are in uncharted territory as tensions soar over the War in Ukraine.Putin has been ratcheting up tensions in recent days and today announced the annexation of four territories of Ukraine while also chillingly claiming that the US "set a precedent" by using nukes on Japan in the Second World War.READ NEXT: Vladimir Putin hints he's ready to use nukes by claiming 'US set precedent in Japan'"We've been in this for a long time, and we've failed to recognize it," Hill told the New Yorker magazine.President Biden meanwhile has warned Putin of the catastrophe that would result from a nuclear strike as the US steps up its monitoring Russia's nuclear activity.Hill highlighted how tensions were already rising before the Ukraine war, especially after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 leading to a big arms build up in Ukraine not to mention the US and Russia at loggerheads over the Syrian Civil War where the powers back opposing sides.Hill said a big danger was the current conflict spiralling out of control."The problem is, of course, us misreading him, but also him misreading us," she said.

Hill was an advisor to Trump, who was widely criticised for having a chummy relationship with the Russian leader.She now says his actions helped convince Putin that the West would show little response to an invasion of its neighbour.The stakes in the war are rising thanks to a wave of successful counter-attacks by Ukrainian forces this month which saw it reclaim thousands of square miles of territory, leading to Putin announcing a call-up of thousands of military reservists and civilians for the war effort.Earlier today,.