PUTIN STARTS WORLD WAR III!

Secret attacks push America to the brink of atomic holocaust

MANIACAL Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has already started World War III by secretly plotting with other rogue nations to attack U.S. forces on multiple fronts across the globe!

Pentagon and CIA insiders exclusively tell The National ENQUIRER the reckless assaults orchestrated by the Kremlin kingpin have brought the world closer to nuclear Armageddon than at any time since the Cold War.

In a frightening development, sources claim blood-crazed Putin — who has waged a scorched-earth offensive on Ukraine for over a year — is openly goading the U.S. into a formal declaration of war.

“Putin has been assembling a modern-day axis of evil through ties with the mullahs in Iran, unhinged North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and President Xi Jinping in China,” warns international affairs expert Dr. Jim Garrow. “If hostilities between the U.S. and Russia continue to spiral, it may very easily pull those other nations into conflict with our NATO allies.

“The resulting war would leave the world in ashes!”

Pentagon insiders insist the 70-year-old tyrant was personally behind the March 14 order for an Su-27 Russian jet to down a U.S. Air Force Reaper drone over the Black Sea.

The incredible aerial encounter — captured on video — came just four weeks after a Russian fighter jet and bomber boldly penetrated the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, prompting the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets.