A senior NATO official told former NSA intelligence analyst John Schindler that the world would "probably be at war" sometime this summer.

"We'll probably be at war this summer, if we're lucky it won't be nuclear," the official told Schindler last week.

Although the tweet was retweeted over 400 times, the comment garnered no mainstream media attention whatsoever, which is odd given that Schindler is a former U.S. Naval War College lecturer and is known to have many high level military contacts.

Although not specified, the reference was almost certainly in relation to growing tensions between the United States and Russia.