From The Tab (we are the voice of young people), September 19:
A retired NATO commander has forecasted in scary detail how WW3 could actually start, and it’s way more low-key (and realistic) than you’d expect.
In an interview for the Daily Mail, General Sir Richard Shirreff, who used to be NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has written out a minute-by-minute breakdown of how the West could be dragged into a global war in hours. This is how he thinks it would play out.
So picture this: One night, Lithuania suddenly goes dark. No lights, no WiFi, no TikTok scroll before bed. Hospitals are scrambling on backup generators, banks shut down, and within hours, the capital city of Vilnius is in absolute chaos.
Sounds like the opening of a dystopian Netflix series, right?
He reckons it would start with a deliberate power cut in the Baltics, engineered by Russia. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia would all be plunged into chaos. Looting breaks out, riots erupt, and the Lithuanian president has no choice but to bring in martial law.
The very next day? Putin makes his move. He’d order Russian troops in Kaliningrad (that’s the chunk of Russia awkwardly wedged between Poland and Lithuania) to go on high alert, pretending it’s all about “keeping the peace.” Spoiler: it wouldn’t be....
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