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An Indian astrologer dubbed “the new Nostradamus” has predicted when World War 3 will start — and it’s closer than you might think.
Kushal Kumar has claimed that Tuesday, June 18, has the “strongest planetary stimulus” to “trigger” all-out nuclear war.
If it doesn’t happen on Tuesday, however, don’t feel ready to let out that sigh of relief.
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According to Kumar, June 29 is another date to watch out for.
Speaking to The Daily Star, Kumar predicted we will be watching “the developing war scenario in hotspots across the globe as days pass by”.
Kumar makes his predictions using the Vedic astrology chart, which focuses on the alignment between planets and stars.
He is said to have correctly predicted localised incidents such as the terrorist attacks on the India-Pakistan border, North Korean soldiers crossing into South Korea, and tensions between Israel and Lebanon and China and Taiwan.
But sceptics have pointed out that Kumar originally predicted June 10 as the date World War 3 would break out, before revising his predictions.
Kumar doubled down on June 18 after June 10 passed by without a hitch.
“It may be observed here that predictive alert for better care and appropriate strategy involves careful and serious interpretation of planetary impacts,” he said, adding that “unintended human error” could also result in a nuclear catastrophe.
Kumar is dubbed “the new Nostradamus” after the famous 16th century French astrologer, who made a series of predictions about the future in his 1555 tome, Les Propheties, which have since been interpreted by many as eerily accurate.
He accurately foretold the year and age that a second Queen Elizabeth would die, while others believe his book foretold the Great Fire of London in 1666, the French Revolution of 1789, the rise of Hitler and the two world wars.
And if you think Kumar’s predictions are a little bit fantastical, various world leaders have indicated that the nuclear threat is real.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned last month that the world is on the precipice of nuclear escalation, with numerous conflict hotspots flaring up globally.
Sunak warned that the nuclear threat was closer than “at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis” of 1962.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also fired an ominous warning shot recently, saying he was being pushed by the West “to the point of no return”.
“Calls to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons demonstrate the extreme recklessness of Western politicians,” he told foreign ministry officials on June 14.
“They either do not understand the scale of the threat they are creating or are simply obsessed with their own sense of impunity and exceptionalism.
“Both can lead to tragedy.”
The head of the UK armed forces denied that nuclear war was imminent.
Admitting that the situation was “a bit more dangerous today” than in recent decades, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin told Sky News on June 6 that nuclear talk was “loose language”.
Radakin said there was an “enormous overmatch” between |the strength of the NATO alliance and Russia, which he said was “failing” in its war on Ukraine.