Tensions between NATO and Russia have been rising for two years, and now both are bombing on opposite sides in Syria. A theoretical slide into conflict between Turkey and Russia could thus also become a conflict between Russia and NATO, dragging the world's top four nuclear powers into war. Turkey is a NATO ally, meaning that at least in theory the other members of NATO - the United States and most of Europe - can be obliged to come to its defense against an external attack. ![]() Only three short hours of Turkey announcing it had shot down a Russian warplane for violating its airspace, an unusual phrase appeared as a new trending topic on Twitter: "World War 3." The conversation is both joking and not joking.
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