Statements by Russian Senator Andrey Klimov, chairman of the Committee on State Sovereignty, clearly indicate that leading members of the Russian Federation Council do not rule out the outbreak of a world war after the assassination attempt on former President Trump. “There will be no strategic change in U.S. policy after the assassination attempt, there is no question of that. But a set of coincidences is capable of working so harshly that a world war could start. The First World War, I recall, was also predetermined by a chain of coincidences,” Klimov told the Parliamentary Gazette. The Senator argued that the escalation shown by the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania dramatically increases the likelihood of rash moves by those who hold “real levers of power” in the world.