"Assessing the Risk of World War 3: Insights from Russian State TV"

Margarita Simonyan, head of state-run television network RT, predicted on Russian state TV that World War III will break out in the Middle East, hoping it will distract the West from Russia's conflict in Ukraine. Kremlin propagandists have routinely warned of a looming world war, with Simonyan stating that it will happen in our lifetime and that Russia will observe from the sidelines. She previously linked the potential conflict to the Israel-Hamas war and accused the U.S. and the U.K. of neglecting Ukraine amid the tensions in the Middle East.