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Britain
Why it may already be too late for the West to avoid war
2024-01-29
Britain has been choosing butter instead of guns for several generations.
[Yahoo] For the first time in generations, Britain has been gripped by the fear of a third world war. It began when the Norwegian commander-in-chief Eirik Kristoffersen predicted that the West had “two, maybe three years” to prepare for war with Russia. He was echoing similar warnings from other Nato chiefs. Then Donald Trump triumphed again in the New Hampshire primary, thereby rendering a Biden-Trump rematch next November a racing certainty. This raises the spectre of chaos in Washington, with dire consequences for Ukraine, for Europe and the cause of democracy. And the week ended with the ominous appearance of Vladimir Putin himself in Kaliningrad, Russia’s fortified exclave between Poland and Lithuania. Putin’s presence there is a stark reminder that if Nato leaves Ukraine in the lurch, Russia is ready to move against the Baltic states too.

After the latest round of cuts the Army will have a total strength of only about 70,000 combat troops.
For some time our blood has been chilled by a series of philippics from senior military officers about the woeful state of our armed forces. Last month the Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, spoke of living in “extraordinarily dangerous times” and asked: “Is the machinery and thinking deep within the British state truly calibrated to the scale of what is unfolding?”

Then, this week, a speech at a military conference in Twickenham by the head of the army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, was leaked to the media. He called for a new “citizen army” to be trained and equipped for the worst case scenario of a war with Russia.
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  A moment's levity as we "gallop towards the graveyard of Empires" to paraphrase Kunstler today!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FcJ9Pg0Y9kg?feature=share
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-01-29 14:54  

#13  #12 for #10
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-29 13:28  

#12  ^Speaking with a forked tongue.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-29 13:22  

#11  Then, this week, a speech at a military conference in Twickenham by the head of the army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, was leaked to the media. He called for a new “citizen army” to be trained and equipped for the worst case scenario of a war with Russia.

Ah, the good old draft, as predictable as the rising sun.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-01-29 13:19  

#10  On one hand they tell us Russia can't defeat Ukraine (a typical African country that, somehow, ended in Europe). On the other hand, they tell us Russia can conqueer Western Europe.

Yes, Grom. I believe the term for that is speaking out of both sides of the mouth. But, here again, they're Democrats so what do you expect?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-01-29 13:16  

#9  Then Donald Trump triumphed again in the New Hampshire primary, thereby rendering a Biden-Trump rematch next November a racing certainty. This raises the spectre of chaos in Washington, with dire consequences for Ukraine, for Europe and the cause of democracy.

The most dire consequence for the cause of democracy was when Joe Biden cheated his way into the White House and started the war in Ukraine. And we know from history that it's always Democrats like Biden who get us into the shittiest wars. I get the distinct impression that people like "Norwegian commander-in-chief Eirik Kristoffersen" actually want war.

Oh, by the way, it was Zelensky who cancelled the upcoming elections is Ukraine. There's another threat to democracy that Yahoo ignores.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-01-29 13:09  

#8  of course he did. he's a dem and they have since 1861 required a subservient population to vote for them.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-29 11:19  

#7  Of course — that was part of immediately reversing everything his predecessor did.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-29 11:18  

#6  ^ Why yes, yes he did
Posted by: Frank G   2024-01-29 09:25  

#5  Did Biden intentionally cause the border crisis?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-29 08:49  

#4  ...or the Quisling supported invasion across our southern border.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-01-29 07:11  

#3  Or, possibly, it's just another attempt for manipulating their oppressed populations: "Don't worry about Muslim colonists, worry about Russia!".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-29 02:41  

#2  It does seem odd, Grom. Possibly they’re thinking that Ukraine is better armed than Europe.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-29 02:12  

#1  On one hand they tell us Russia can't defeat Ukraine (a typical African country that, somehow, ended in Europe). On the other hand, they tell us Russia can conqueer Western Europe.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-29 00:36  

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