Why should they risk their lives against Russia at all?!
The war was provoked by NATO.
ALL NATO countries must agree to allow a new member in..and at least for the next four years (hopefully a lot longer) that ain’t gonna happen.
Soldiers afraid to go into combat against lethal enemy combatants because they are afraid they will be sued by their own officials? Welcome to the collapse of the British Empire. What a joke.
Western liberals, Lefties and outright Communists have been playing the “prosecution” game for a very long time. Remember My Lai? It was indeed horrid, but the larger frame for this was McNamara's brilliant domino theory that got millions of Vietnamese and more than 38 thousand Americans killed in nineteen years. The reality at the end of the war? Communist Vietnam was unified. Was the war worth it then?
Without dredging up too much of the past, one observes that military who have well learned the postwar “prosecution lesson” are among those who will not expose themselves to an enemy in battle only to find themselves later exposed to another enemy at home.
What a surprise.... < s a r c >
SAS soldiers are threatening to go ‘on strike’ if they are deployed to Ukraine unless they receive assurances they will not face future prosecution for using lethal force.
It appears the soldiers don’t have much to lose.
They all know lefties at the top have no moral foundation
Once politics changes, they will indeed become political targets
“…unless they receive assurances they will not face future prosecution for using lethal force.“
I’m pretty sure some FReeper or other predicted this years ago. Can’t remember the details.
Last night, shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said: ‘These reports of discontent among our serving military, fearing being hounded on their return home from action more than any enemy they may face, should be a wake-up call to Labour.’
The Ministry of Defence said it was ‘pure speculation’ to say who would form part of any UK peacekeeping in Ukraine, adding: ‘We are still at the early stages of the process.’
If the Crown cannot protect its own agents defending the Crown, then the Crown is not the Crown. It's just a feeble old man worshipping trees.
People don’t remember that Canada dismantled their Canadian Airborne Regiment after some war crime issues in Somalia, it led me to join the Canadian Airborne Association as a form of support.
The SAS went rogue in 2005 to rescue 2 of their own being held in Iraq.
The high command of the army and the Ministry of Defense had forbid the action but the SAS in Iraq formed up a raiding party of about 20 SAS and 40 paratroopers and conducted a complicated rescue mission anyway.
protection against prosecution afforded to MI6 agents.
The High Court ruled in December that spies operating on behalf of MI5 can kill in the line of duty without being prosecuted if they are able to persuade authorities that it was done in the public interest.