NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: US and Russia could ‘start Third World War over Syria conflict’, says Turkey.

Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said: “If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war,” the Daily Mail reports.

He suggested the Syrian conflict could be the beginning of World War Three, saying it had put the world “on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war”.

Earlier this month a Russian newspaper warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing an “astonishingly risky game” in the Syrian conflict that could lead to a Third World War.

Popular tabloid, Moskovsky Komsomolets, ran an article that suggested hostilities in Syria could spark a “direct military confrontation” between the nations of a similar scale to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

There’s a reason “peace through fecklessness” isn’t a saying, and we’ve had eight years of fecklessness.