 Medvedev world is on the verge of a new world war the world is sick and quite probably is on the verge of a new world war the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council Dimitri Medvedev said in an address to participants in the knowledge educational marathon he said such a world war was not inevitable but the risks of a nuclear confrontation were growing and more serious than concerns about climate change all countries most exert efforts to avoid the outbreak of a new full-scale global conflict cannot say what the last straw what the trigger may be but it may happen at some point we all need to work to ensure that this threat of global confrontation of a hot full-scale world war three should not materialize he stressed speaking about the current situation Medvedev noted that Russia by no means wish to see this happen but the world tensions are white hot indeed he said Medvedev recalled that in his youth he and his age mates used to talk about confrontation with the United States about confrontation between the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Alliance back then it seemed like some kind of hypothetical far-fetched an impossible scenario but I can't say that now however sad this may sound he concluded