One of many pieces of evidence of an upcoming WW3 is the increase in the military budget of the US. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's speech Tuesday previewing the Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2017 spelled out Washington's advanced preparations for military confrontations with the world's second- and third-largest nuclear powers, Russia and China. The presentation made by Carter, a longtime technocrat of America's military industrial complex, provides a powerful vindication of the warnings made by the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site that the deepening crisis of US and global capitalism is posing a real and growing danger of a Third World War. The biggest increase proposed in the Pentagon budget is the quadrupling of funding for the US military buildup against Russia in Europe—projected to rise from $800 million to $3.4 billion. In addition to the 65,000 troops Washington already garrisons on the European continent, the funding