US EditionWargame Finds Russia Could Seize Lithuanian City in Days
Simulation finds Russia could capture Marijampole with 15,000 troops amid NATO hesitation and lack of U.S. leadership, raising concerns over Baltic security and alliance response.
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A new simulation of the war in which Russia would invade Lithuania, calling for a humanitarian crisis in Kaliningrad, showed that Moscow would reach "most targets" within a few days, while NATO alliances would try to intervene.
In December 2025, the German newspaper Die Welt and the German War Games Centre at the University of the German Armed Forces staged Russia's invasion of NATO territory, with 16 participants: former senior German and NATO officials and security experts; the result was unconvincing: the Russian military was in NATO territory for three days without hindrance and captured the Lithuanian city of Mariampole. The Medusa spoke to the director of the Ber…
Under the title "Ernstfall - What, if Russia attacks us?", the German Wargaming Center of Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg and the media brand "Welt" simulated a security-political crisis in Europe.
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