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UK Army Commander Tells Troops to Prepare for a Land War in Europe
Breitbart ^ | 6-19-2022 | Peter Caddle

Posted on 06/19/2022 1:59:13 PM PDT by blam

The incoming commander of the British Army has reportedly told his troops to prepare to fight a land war in Europe, citing Russia as a significant threat to peace.

General Sir Patrick Sanders, the British Army’s newly appointed overall commander, is said to have told his troops to prepare for potential deployment in Europe in order to counter the threat of Russia.

According to a report by the Daily Mail, General Sanders — who only assumed full command of the UK’s army last week — told his troops that they are now facing the possibility of having to fight a war on the European continent, an eventuality that they now have to be prepared for.

“I am the first Chief of the General Staff since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a continental power,” the senior army officer reportedly wrote.

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine underlines our core purpose – to protect the UK by being ready to fight and win wars on land,” he continued. “It is my singular duty to make our Army as lethal and effective as it can be.”

“We are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again,” Sanders is also reported as saying. “There is now a burning imperative to forge an army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle.”

German Chancellor Says West Will Support Ukraine ‘as Long as Necessary’https://t.co/r77n6QP85y

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 19, 2022

The incoming commander’s comments come as leaders across the Western world steady themselves and their nations for what now looks like it could be a long war, with the chief of NATO telling German publication Bild that the current conflict in Ukraine could last years.

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To: Born to Conserve

I remember when I was 10 and thought saying such things was funny.


101 posted on 06/20/2022 7:21:03 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Travis McGee

We are *so* screwed.


102 posted on 06/20/2022 7:49:03 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: FreshPrince
The only “shock and awe” Russia has been doing is in the form of deomnstrating how pathetic their military is

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/ukraine-1000-casualties-day-donbas-arakhamia

Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, with 200 to 500 killed on average and many more wounded, a top Ukrainian official said on Wednesday.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-MoD-50-Ukrainian-Officers-Killed-in-Long-Range-Strike-20220619-0023.html

The Russian Defense Ministry announced, on Sunday, that more than 50 Ukrainian generals and officers were killed in a strike on a command center in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk region.

103 posted on 06/20/2022 9:08:20 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: FreshPrince
Russia has a 13% flat-tax rate. There only two genders in Russia. Marriage is between a man and a woman. While we have a President and elected officials pushing gender dysphoria on little kids, Russia has banned the promotion of LGBT, period. Putin has repeatedly spoken out against "wokeness". Russia has been spending $2.5 billion a year constructing churches.

If you disagree with all that, you are a liberal.

104 posted on 06/20/2022 9:11:42 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: FreshPrince
Any attempts to justify what Russia is doing aint gonna work.

The truth always works and is working in this case.

The American people aren't going to tolerate us getting involved in a hot war with Russia. We will not tolerate billions of dollars being wasted on Ukraine. And, we will not tolerate a sanction war that results in an increase in inflation.

105 posted on 06/20/2022 9:13:31 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: SuperLuminal

“This isn’t the 1940’s British.

No, it isn’t. The Brits got their asses chased off the European continent in about six weeks in 1940 and while they did have some major success in WW2 they had quite a number of major screw ups.

Operation Market-Garden comes to mind.


106 posted on 06/20/2022 10:39:23 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Kazan

No one is talking about getting in a hot war with Russia.

America has tolerated trillions being wasted.

Money to Ukraine is not a waste.

And there is no justification for Russian aggression in Ukraine.


107 posted on 06/20/2022 10:48:35 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Kazan

According to you, the war was over months ago.

But it is not.

In part because Russias military sucks.


108 posted on 06/20/2022 10:49:21 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: NorseViking

“Count the foreign adventures of the other powers, and Russia is not really aggressive.”

You’re joking, right? Historically, few nations have expanded as much as Russia. From the 16th century to the end of the 19th century Russia moved against and conquered its neighbors such that the territory of Russia expanded by OVER 1,000%! Think of that: Russia went from a country stuck between the Urals in the east and the Dnieper in the west and increased itself TEN-FOLD! Then, of course, the USSR subdued and colonized Eastern Europe until the break-up of the USSR in the early 1990s. Not to mention its adventures in Africa, South America, Asia. etc.

You can try and whitewash your country’s history, tovarisch, but facts are stubborn things.


109 posted on 06/20/2022 11:52:10 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: FreshPrince
According to you, the war was over months ago.

You're lying.

What I've predict will come to pass -- Russia will control all of Eastern Ukraine and the entire Black Sea coastline.

But, if we keep threatening insurgencies, the Russians will take every, single inch of the country.

110 posted on 06/20/2022 4:44:40 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Shall i repost some of your ridiculous statements?


111 posted on 06/20/2022 4:57:33 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Kazan

Lie #1
3/24/2022, 10:59:53 AM · 31 of 75
Kazan to marcusmaximus
The Duran’s Alexander Mercouris and Gonzalo Lira both predict a Russian victory by the end of April.

Lie #2:
4/5/2022, 11:13:42 PM · 35 of 79
Kazan to MinorityRepublican
“...and have 60,000 to 80,000
Ukrainian troops trapped in eastern Ukraine.”

Lie #3:
4/2/2022, 6:27:44 PM · 89 of 90
Kazan to Salohcin
“Encircled and about to die if they don’t surrender in eastern Ukraine. That you don’t know that means you nothing about what is actually other than propaganda you’re getting. It’s likely all going down next week.”


112 posted on 06/20/2022 5:59:42 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: FreshPrince
Lie #1 3/24/2022, 10:59:53 AM · 31 of 75 Kazan to marcusmaximus The Duran’s Alexander Mercouris and Gonzalo Lira both predict a Russian victory by the end of April

Who is the liar here? YOU ARE, YOU DISGUSTING NEO-NAZI, NEOCON, RUSSOPHOBIC PIECE OF TRASH.

I didn't make the prediction. I specifically said what other analysts were claiming.

How dishonest can you be to claim I was the one that made that prediction?

113 posted on 06/20/2022 6:20:37 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: FreshPrince
Lie #2: 4/5/2022, 11:13:42 PM · 35 of 79 Kazan to MinorityRepublican “...and have 60,000 to 80,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in eastern Ukraine.”

That, you blithering idiot, IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. Ukrainian soldiers, by the admission of Ukrainian officials, in Donbass have been dying at the rates of 200 to 500 PER DAY. Read and it and weep, lying neocon SOB:

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/ukraine-1000-casualties-day-donbas-arakhamia

Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, with 200 to 500 killed on average and many more wounded, a top Ukrainian official said on Wednesday.

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You are one of biggest fools here if you don't realize the Ukrainian military is being destroyed all in a feckless attempt by the Biden regime and globalist to harm Russia.

The blood of Ukrainians is dripping from the hands of those conducting this proxy war and fools like you that support this insanity.

The long the war goes, the more Ukrainians that will die and less that will be left of Ukraine.

114 posted on 06/20/2022 6:27:38 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

“That, you blithering idiot, IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. Ukrainian soldiers, by the admission of Ukrainian officials, in Donbass have been dying at the rates of 200 to 500 PER DAY. Read and it and weep, lying neocon SOB:”

Sorry they are NOT surrounded and cut off since April....Losing troops is notbeing “surronded” your the idiot.

And remember, it was all going to be over by end of April!!! LOL!


115 posted on 06/20/2022 6:35:46 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Kazan

“I didn’t make the prediction. I specifically said what other analysts were claiming.”

You wouldnt repeat it if you didnt believe it....

“YOU DISGUSTING NEO-NAZI, NEOCON, RUSSOPHOBIC PIECE OF TRASH.”

Oh dear, someones puty panties are in a knot!


116 posted on 06/20/2022 6:37:23 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: blam

It’d be a real shame if Moscow nuked Berlin or London.

Might as well “get it on” for real.


117 posted on 06/20/2022 6:38:14 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cathi
-- Actually I don't think Biden or the Pentagon have any interest in this. --

Biden is just along for the ride.

The Pentagon exists and lives to prosecute war. The hotter the prosepects, the more red hot excitement and exhilarating for them and the defense industry.

And thinking on it, Biden and his masters would welcome the distraction. Common enemy, he can be a real uniter in that framework.

118 posted on 06/20/2022 6:42:40 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

You can throw out the rules. The current governments all over the world just act in the moment.


119 posted on 06/20/2022 6:45:53 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: FreshPrince

“The blood of Ukrainians is dripping from the hands of those conducting this proxy war and fools like you that support this insanity.”

I think your loveboy Putin is the one with bloody hands since he is the one who invaded. BTW, My support means nothing. So why dont you shake your fist at your boy kisser buddy Putin.


120 posted on 06/20/2022 6:50:45 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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