

Russian spies now immediately target Russian defectors who had fled Russia. Pakistan is baffled but says nothing.Ģnd January 2022: Russian, Belarusian, and Kazakh military units move towards the Ukrainian border.

Unable to place their drones in Pakistan to start a lost nuclear weapon search, the United States soon struck a deal with India.ĩth November 2021: India allows the United States to park its drones in India’s Kashmir in exchange for the Kashmir belongs to India announcement from the President of the United States. They’re forced to retaliate.Ģ9th October 2021: Pakistan-Afghanistan border, now controlled by the Pakistan Taliban on one end and Afghanistan Taliban on the other, becomes a militant zone. Satellite feed suspects a classic heist from the Taliban. Two of the nine tactical nuclear weapons go missing in Pakistan. The US condemns the act, plans sanctions, but they’re not implemented.Ģ0th October 2021: After two months of awkward silence and close to no media presence, the world wakes up to a piece of hazardous news. The US condemns the act but stays silent.ġ5th September 2021: Pakistan’s continued political instability and a ‘dying’ economy lead to coup d’état. China is silent, but there is an accelerated movement of equipment, components, materials, and, in all probability, technology for both ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. News is censored, and North Korea-like fortification is underway.ģ0th August 2021: Seeing how the Taliban won the war against the United States, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un reintroduce medium and long-range missile tests as a provocation. Taliban starts shaping domestic policy for the next two months.


Soldiers switch sides, and ethnic cleansing to enforce religious laws soon take place. Bureaucrats of the last government flee Afghanistan. Kabul, the last major city in Afghanistan to hold out against the Taliban offensive, has fallen in the hands of militants.ġ7th August 2021: Abdul Ghani Baradar, a militant who fought side-by-side with the one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar during the Soviet-Afghan War, is declared the President of the Taliban. We will explore the timeline of the event that would lead up to our imaginary World War in this first part of the series.Ħth July 2021: The US evacuates Bagram Airfield, the largest military installation in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.ġ5th August 2021: Afghani president Ashraf Ghani flees the country as capital falls to Taliban. In the world of cruise and ballistic missiles, hypersonic weaponry, cyber-warfare, autonomous and automated weapon systems, and chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, how would World War 3 Shape Up? Who would side with whom? What will cause the war in the first place? Will anyone survive? This piece explores the hypothetical futuristic timeline of World War III. Part 1: Events Leading up to World War III – Possible Scenario
