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Posted on 01/25/2024 8:42:14 PM PST by RandFan
It's time to "think the unthinkable" and consider introducing conscription to ready the country for a potential land war, Britain's former top NATO commander has said.
General Sir Richard Sherriff, ex-deputy supreme allied commander of the military organisation, warned that the UK defence budget is not big enough to expand the armed forces alone.
He told Sky News: "Conscription to most professional soldiers, and I count myself as one, is absolute anathema.
"Britain's armed forces have traditionally and culturally relied on long service volunteer highly professional soldiers with huge experience - and that is really the way we would all want it to go on."
However, given the current global situation and defence funding cuts since the end of the Cold War, he said: "I think we need to get over many of the cultural hang-ups and assumptions, and frankly think the unthinkable."
"I think we need to go further and look carefully at conscription," he said.
His intervention follows comments from the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, who suggested British men and women could face a call-up to the army in the event of a war with Russia.
The head of the British Army said UK citizens should be "trained and equipped" to fight in a potential war between NATO and Vladimir Putin's forces
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
This is happening ...
Britain needs war slaves!
Have they gone off the deep end?
Ukraine looks lost.
So they have to provoke Russia somewhere else.
In the Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia deportation of ethnic Russians is in motion.
Vladimir Putin has described these plans as threatening to Russia’s “security”.
(It’s time to “think the unthinkable” and consider introducing conscription to ready the country for a potential land war, Britain’s former top NATO commander has said.)
Ye shall have World War III and ye shall like it.
Then ye shall eat ze bugs 🦟🐛🐜🐝🐞🦋🦗.
And ye shall like it.
Now, shut up and take ze jab, 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉Global Citizen.
They would have a nationwide riot on their hands if they tried conscription in the UK now.
It would trigger a complete overthrow of government in the UK
Good luck with that.
I’m sure their predominately raghead citizens will be lining up for that.
China invading Taiwan would set this in motion.
USA will be right behind with the draft—to include women too this time. All our client states will have to join in like Canada and Mexico. Fools
Haven’t been able to kill off the legacy British population fast enough to make room for the “migrants.”
Another nice world war should do it, but we only draft legacy British citizens.
“Migrants” are exempt.
“I’m sure their predominately raghead citizens will be lining up for that.”
I’ll bet it is highly likely that an exemption will be found for them. They’ll stay home and take care of the civilians. Only legacy Brits will have to serve.
Que Nelson: “ha, ha,... Ha,Ha, HA, HA, HA, HA,HA, ......
you suck up to deep state US sucks to be you
-fJRoberts-
This is just the expansion of the Ukrainian war. The Deep State is making it sound like a separate war. NATO has been at war, using the Ukrainians as proxies, for about 2 years now. NATO is running out of Ukrainian soldiers and is going to try to justify throwing other nations’ men and women into the Ukrainian war by saying they need to stop PUTIN before he attacks/kills Europeans when the Ukraine surrenders.
Lloyd Austin warned Americans that they had better send the Ukraine more money or he would be sending America’s sons and daughters to fight there. I think he said that about 5 months ago - it’s still the Ukrainian war, but they are dressing it up as preventative - as if war with Russia is unavoidable.
True. UK and US young men-—and to be for equal rights—the women-—won’t stand up to fight if drafted.
1980 article:
U.S. President Jimmy Carter didn’t just want to bring back the draft. He wanted to expand it, too.
“Carter asked Congress to approve a plan to register young Americans for the draft,” said George McLean at the top of CBC’s The National on Feb. 8, 1980. “And for the first time, women would be included.”
“Women would not be placed in combat units if the U.S. was to get involved in a conflict.”
Maybe they can bring back Press Gangs for the Royal Navy.
Coming to a globohomo client state near you …
Most of the migrants are anti British, sooooo, when the Brits are away, the migrants will play....
Attacking any and all British institutions.
They should be front line fodder.
They might have more of a problem with that than they think. There’s sentiment that the government started this war and people don’t want to fight it.
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