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Nato warns of all-out war with Russia in next 20 years
The Telegraph ^ | Thu, January 18, 2024 | Joe Barnes

Posted on 01/19/2024 9:20:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Civilians must prepare for all-out war with Russia in the next 20 years, a top Nato military official has warned.

While armed forces are primed for the outbreak of war, private citizens need to be ready for a conflict that would require wholesale change in their lives, Adml Rob Bauer said on Thursday.

Large numbers of civilians will need to be mobilised in case of the outbreak of war and governments should put in place systems to manage the process, Adml Bauer told reporters after a meeting of Nato defence chiefs in Brussels.

“We have to realise it’s not a given that we are in peace. And that’s why we [Nato forces] are preparing for a conflict with Russia.

“But the discussion is much wider. It is also the industrial base and also the people that have to understand they play a role.”

Adml Bauer, a Dutch naval officer who is chairman of Nato’s Military Committee, praised Sweden for asking all of its citizens to brace for war ahead of the country formally joining the alliance.

Stockholm’s move, announced earlier this month, has led to a surge in volunteers for the country’s civil defence organisation and a spike in sales of torches and battery-powered radios.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: nato; russia; war
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To: ansel12

It’s all of NATO. Not just the US military.

They are all the same.


21 posted on 01/19/2024 11:09:06 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ansel12
So this is supposedly UK Personnel. Happy now ?


22 posted on 01/19/2024 11:14:54 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t think some here can wait that long. They want it now.


23 posted on 01/19/2024 11:32:11 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Their latest attempt to widen the war is going after ethnic Russians in NATO countries.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4211544/posts


24 posted on 01/19/2024 11:39:53 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: dforest
Seems like NATO Putin's Russia just wants war all the time. They never shut up about warring stop attacking & invading neighboring countries without any provocation

Fixed it for ya!


25 posted on 01/20/2024 2:46:41 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: CapandBall

Please stop your crying

You look really distraught in that pic!


26 posted on 01/20/2024 2:47:47 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: dforest

What do you expect an organization whose funding is directly tied to war with Russia to say? We don’t expect any further war with Russia? Where’s the money in that?

EC


27 posted on 01/20/2024 2:53:03 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: MinorityRepublican

20 years? I thought they said climate change will take us out by then!


28 posted on 01/20/2024 3:23:09 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Reverend Wright

LOL. You nailed it. That is the military of the West, led by Puppet Biden.


29 posted on 01/20/2024 4:19:49 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: canuck_conservative

You need to go over to Ukraine and fight Russia. It will clean a warmonger like you off this forum and will allow you to put your money where your big mouth is.


30 posted on 01/20/2024 4:23:04 AM PST by dforest
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To: dforest

I’m not the warmonger, Putin is

We’re all looking forward to another year of Russia flailing around on the battlefield, suffering massive losses for minimal gains

LOL!


31 posted on 01/20/2024 4:37:12 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: Reverend Wright

Why did you avoid military service during all those years of your time?


32 posted on 01/20/2024 4:56:56 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder about all these columns saying there’s a war in our future. Usually they say “by 2025” or something like that. This one goes much farther.

I think the war is a LOT closer than they warn us about. Their efforts seem to me to be a way of trying to keep everyone interested in their own worthless pursuits instead of interested in stopping the war.


33 posted on 01/20/2024 5:00:41 AM PST by firebrand
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To: MinorityRepublican
Gee, this is getting exciting. A Dutch bigmouth rattles his saber about an all-out war "in the next 20 years."

What is it about predicting the future -- WHO pandemics like the coming "X", what the temperature of the earth will be decades into the future, the disjunctive labor market due to AI, and now "in the next 20 years...."

I suspect it comes to one thing. Global debt, which is not being addressed, much less managed properly. The fancy folks atop all sorts of fancy groups need little us to take our attention away from D E B T. Massive debt. Growing massive debt. Unsustainable massive debt.

The EU is 450 million. Greater Europe is 700 million. It's time for Europe to get its house in order. Fiscally.

Or they won't be able to afford climate actions, pandemics, labor market problems, collapsing "welfarism" and massive migration, much less war with a country of 145 million.

If war comes, it won't remain a land war. Bye bye Moscow, but bye-bye Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and so much more.

All that stuff about beating "swords into plowshares?" That's why this modern, corrupt world is already at war with the Judaeo-Christian part of the West.

34 posted on 01/20/2024 5:59:34 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It is not just Ukraine. Russia is using world war 2 tanks.


35 posted on 01/20/2024 6:20:53 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Russia claims that is to defend Russians where ever they are in the world. This is just a pretext for invading other nations. They also claim that Alaska was illegally sold by the Czars. Does this not tell you anything about their intentions? This will only end in war and helping Ukraine end it for us is in the best interests of everyone.


36 posted on 01/20/2024 6:27:17 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Doesn’t matter. Mother Earf will be dead in 7.43 years anyway.


37 posted on 01/20/2024 6:29:02 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In the next twenty years we could see the coming of Christ or the Yellowstone caldera erupt or god knows what. 😆


38 posted on 01/20/2024 7:04:15 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Here’s a prediction. In the next 5 years NATO disappears. 😆


39 posted on 01/20/2024 7:05:24 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Reverend Wright; bitt
***It’s all of NATO. Not just the US military***

Well, yes... BUT, Europe will use NATO to pull us into their conflict expecting us to finance the conflict and supply most of the dead from our greatest treasure: our talented youth.

AND... D.C. + DS is more than willing - as usual. ❌👎😒

I for one advocate that we stop fighting Europe's wars for them; if they are bent on killing each other - well, that is their heritage. We can watch from the sidelines❗👌 . . . from a continent far far away.

40 posted on 01/20/2024 8:12:23 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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