MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. The United States will continue to bring World War III closer if the next American president continues to add fuel to the fire in the Ukraine conflict, Russian Security Council Vice President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with RT.

“If the next leader (of the United States) continues to add fuel to the fire in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the same enthusiasm, it will be a very bad choice because it will be a road to hell,” Medvedev warned in the interview published on his VKontakte page. . “This would really pave the way for a third world war,” he added, urging the two US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, to recognize this fact. “Whoever decides to continue the war will make a very serious mistake,” he stressed.

Furthermore, the politician doubted that the US deep state wants another global war. “No deep state can survive” if the planet becomes uninhabitable, he argued.

According to Medvedev, American elites are mistaken if they think that Russia is not willing to cross certain lines and use nuclear weapons to protect itself.