James Blunt: How I prevented world war three

Singer claims his refusal to obey an order while serving in the British army in 1999 avoided a major international conflictJames Blunt apparently prevented a third world war. The singer made the claim in an interview about his military career. "I was given the direct command to overpower ... 200 or so Russians [in Kosovo]," he said. "And the practical consequences of that political reason would be then aggression against the Russians."The man who later sold 11m albums with a song about a beautif...

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