"Look everyone! The Russians believe they may need to go to war with the U.S.! This is serious!"
Comment: What's perhaps most interesting about this article is not what the Russian newspapers are quoted as saying (since they and Russian television shows have been discussing these possibilities in depth for years now) - but rather, how matter-of-factly the Sun, a UK tabloid, manages to give the Western propagandist slant in just a few short lines:
'Third World War' fears have been voiced by the newspapers over the growing tensions between the USA and Syria
A RUSSIAN newspaper fears a Third World War with the US over Syria.
Tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets predicts a "direct military confrontation" on par with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The US suspended contact with Russia over Syria on Monday.
Comment: But no mention of how Assad took this latest ceasefire negotiation off the table. Or Russian foreign Minister Lavrov's similar statements. It's all about what the US has decided to do.
Secretary of State John Kerry has been enraged by airstrikes on rebel-controlled areas of Aleppo.
Comment: Again, its all about how Kerry feels. Never mind Assad or Lavrov or the millions of people world-wide who stand outraged by the US strike in Deir Ezzor.
Hundreds of innocents are believed to have been killed in the attacks.
Comment: No mention of course that it is the rebels who are responsible for shelling civilians.
BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg referred to two Russian newspapers taking an aggressive tone towards the US.
In one article headlined 'The stakes are higher than Syria', the paper Moskovsky Komsomolets warns of a potential new war.
It states:
"Just imagine that the US does what it has wanted to do for a long time and strike against Assad, not by mistake but on purpose and openly.Moskovsky Komsomolets adds that even its country's own fighters would not be confident in a war with the US.
"Should Russia defend its ally or consider striking against the Americans but this would definitely lead to a Third World War.
"Russia can win big in Syria but it can also lose big too. We must not forget that in Syria we are playing an astonishingly risky game."
"According to our fighter pilots, the best we could do is shoot down a few coalition forces but this would mean a full-scale war," it added.
Veteran broadcaster Vladimir Pozner told the BBC:
"There's a real feeling now that America is out to prove it is the only superpower.
"The continued expansion of Nato is seen by the Russian leadership, perhaps incorrectly, is seen as being a real threat.
"There is a danger of real confrontation, perhaps leading to some kind of military engagement and war."
Comment: NATO "perhaps incorrectly, is seen as being a real threat"?? How about it IS a real threat?
It has previously been reported that Putin is preparing for war with the West.
Russia is already staging a massive evacuation drill to prepare for nuclear war.
More than 200,000 emergency services personnel and soldiers will use 50,000 pieces of equipment during the civil defence exercise.
Comment: Maybe if the Western media got a few of the crucial facts straight, it wouldn't sound so incredulous about Russia and Syria's views of the matter.