Brit General Warns of War, Promotes Recruitment

[sailorsam]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...84473.html

Britain must be prepared to form a “citizen army” of tens of thousands in the event of war with countries such as Russia, the head of the army has warned in an ominous intervention.
General Sir Patrick Sanders said that his forces, including all reserves, would not be large enough to defend the country if there was a war, and it was now essential for Britain to lay the foundations for “national mobilisation”.

Speaking at a conference on armored warfare in southwest London, Gen Sanders said that within three years Britain should be able to increase its army to 120,000, including regular soldiers, reserves and a “strategic reserve” group – which is understood to mean retired troops who have been recalled.


wow.
personally I don't see any chance of Russia - Nato war any time soon.  just not worth it for either side.
If Putin can't take Ukraine why would he try anything bigger?
does anyone think he'd really try to go into Poland?  he would bring the world against himself.

[Ninurta]

If Putin tried to invade Poland, it would trigger a massive NATO response that he is in no way prepared for, nor could he ever be - not even if China was forming ranks behind him. I think all the talk of Russian boogey men is just propaganda from globalists trying to ramp up some anti-Russian "patriotic fervor" among the peons. They have to have a boogey man to present as a common enemy for the commonoers, lest we figure out who the real enemy is and go after them. That would not bode well for the globalists. So, they use Russians as distractions for us. It has the bonus side effect of targeting a country that is already against the globalists - they just want us to think Russia is a danger us peons, too.

In the matter of the UK preparing a "citizens army", that's just not going to happen, either. The UK has been gunless for too many years. Very, very few people there are familiar enough with firearms to organize an effective fighting force among them with what they have to work with. They would have to massively import arms (like they did during WWII), and familiarize enough folks with them, then train them un use and tactics. I don't think there is enough time in "a couple of years" to get all that done, especially when it would involve a sea change in mindset for massive numbers of British folks.

People could be trained with imported arms in a coupe of years, BUT it's that change of mind-set that would be the sticking point. There is a vast difference between knowing HOW to use a firearm and actually using one against another human.

Plus, there would have to be massive changes in UK law to allow storage of the guns and ammo close to hand. The way things are set up currently, a foreign invasion force could roll over the country from sea to sea before the population could get to the storage facilities to get armed up.

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[EndtheMadnessNow]

I don't see any chance of Russia - Nato war any time soon either, however post 2024 who knows what our psychopath leaders will do. I think every big developed nation has been building up their military + weapons since 2019 for Cold War 2.0. Billions, trillions being spent on defense of every shape & kind just like back in the 50s-60s and again in the 80s. Like back then, everyone was a combatant in the propaganda wars. The military mind-set often goes full tilt on adversary threats when it's actually inside factions fighting each other and anything in msm headlines I tend to take with a big grain of salt because it's most often cover for whatever the hell is going on behind the veil AND up in Space. I seriously doubt Putin would invade/attack any nation with a nuclear arsenal.


Another article from the Telegraph...

In his address to the International Armoured Vehicles conference in Twickenham on Wednesday, Gen Sir Patrick stressed that the Army, which is predicted to have just 72,500 fully trained soldiers by 2025, would not be big enough to fight an all-out war with Russia even if it numbered 120,000.

Defence sources previously told The Telegraph that Gen Sir Patrick wants there to be a shift in the mindset of British men and women, in which they think like troops and are mentally prepared for a possible war with Russia.

In a recent speech, Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary, warned that the UK was “moving from a post-war to a pre-war world” with conflict expected internationally within five years. Mr Shapps also said he would like Britain to spend 3 per cent of GDP on defence, up from the 2 per cent it is currently committed to spending.

A Whitehall source on Wednesday night told The Times that the training of Ukrainian civilians on British soil could go on to become a “mission rehearsal” to train people across the UK to follow suit.

“The post-Cold War period of instability is over, a new chapter has begun where a new alliance of adversaries are testing the West’s timidity. Britain has done well to rekindle its Cold War statecraft, but we can only continue to do that if we upgrade our defence posture.”

“We won’t be immune. And as the pre-war generation, we’ve got to similarly prepare, and that is a whole nation undertaking. Ukraine brutally reminds us that while regular armies start wars, it is citizen armies that finish and win them.”

Speaking of Poland...

Polish Police Arrest Pro-Duda MPs Inside Presidential Palace As Constitutional Crisis Unfolds

There are recognizable parallels to what is happening in the USSA, the weaponization of political institutions against political opponents that the entrenched parasite class does not like; in Poland's case, this is opposition between one national (and nationalist) party and one internationalist party:

There's a bizarre but potentially serious constitutional crisis unfolding in Poland currently, after former Polish interior minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wonsik were arrested over allegations of abuse of power. A court has also sought to bar them from office for at least five years, a ruling which they have ignored.

The whole thing is set against the backdrop of a high-drama showdown between Poland’s new government of pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk (only in office for a month now) and the now opposition Law and Justice party (PiS). Kaminski and Wonsik were actually arrested inside the presidential palace of President Andrzej Duda, ally of the previous right-wing government.

PiS is calling the pair "political prisoners" after a court sentenced them to two years in prison for abuse of power stemming from their stint leading an anti-corruption office in 2007. Their enemies have further charged that they've 'subverted democracy'. President Duda, however, had pardoned them for the crime back in 2015 - a pardon which he says remains valid and can't be nulled by the court's decision.

But Tusk has called the standoff "unbelievable" - also as angry PiS supporters gathered outside the presidential palace as the arrests unfolded. Tusk's "Civic Platform" party considers it an "equality before the law" situation for which no political official should be immune.

The other side says that pro-EU bureaucrats are wasting no time in using all the powers of the state to declare open season on anti-Brussels political enemies, however.

To me with all this international strife it looks like the Old world order has been in a battle with the New World order since 2020. I can't tell you who is who on which side, (though some are obvious) but they all wear suits & smoke cigars while planning their next chess move.

[BIAD]

There are some who say due to General Lord Dannatt preparing to retire from his position, this is a 'ring-and-run' moment
in order to set himself up in a comfortable seat on an arms manufacturing board! But I believe he isn't wrong.