Russia's vladimir Putin Wars of WWIII. Quotes Einstein, Says 'World War 4 Will Be Fought With Sticks and Stones"

Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of violating the nuclear balance and warned against a “Third World War” during an annual televised call-in show.



Responding to a worried viewer, Mr Putin called for new arms control negotiations and quoted Albert Einstein's aphorism that “World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.



But he also said Russia had developed weapons to overcome US missile defence after Washington left the Soviet-era anti-ballistic missile treaty in 2002.



“The fear of mutually assured destruction has always restrained and forced military powers to respect each other,” he said. “The exit of the United States from the missile defence treaty was an attempt to ruin this parity, but our efforts in the development of new weapons will preserve this parity.”