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British Army chief warns '5 years' to prepare for WW3 with world facing 'new Axis power'
https://www.express.co.uk ^ | Jul 9, 2024 | By CHRISTOPHER SHARP, News Reporter

Posted on 07/09/2024 7:04:15 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The outgoing head of the British Army General Sir Patrick Sanders has warned that NATO may only have five years to prepare for war.

General Sir Patrick warned that the world was facing one of its most dangerous moments since 1945 when the world was last at war and that the alliance may have until the end of this decade to be ready.

Sir Patrick also highlighted that despite performing well in some areas, the UK’s armed forces were also underfunded and overstretched.

His warnings come at a time of rising global tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s warnings of Taiwan, and the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East.

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To: buwaya

Four things are certain in life.

The next war is coming, the next recession is coming and death and taxes.


21 posted on 07/09/2024 7:30:29 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: RomanSoldier19

How about instead of treating Russia and China as potential military adversaries, we treat them like trading partners?


22 posted on 07/09/2024 7:32:32 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: ransomnote

23 posted on 07/09/2024 7:32:41 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: RomanSoldier19

I don’t know about any of this WWIII stuff but it certainly does not help the west from a strategic standpoint to be talking about shutting down the use of fossil fuels over the next 10 years.

It advertises a period when we will be even more vulnerable.


24 posted on 07/09/2024 7:33:13 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Leaning Right

If Russia can’t even beat Ukraine (real idiot claim) what does that say about your real idiot claim that Russia is going for conquest of Europe?


25 posted on 07/09/2024 7:36:12 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: buwaya

You are correct in that a ChiCom victory in the Far East will shake things up. But I think that will be only temporary.

The world will readjust, and find a new equilibrium. That new equilibrium will favor China. But it can’t be helped, as no power will care enough to really push back.


26 posted on 07/09/2024 7:37:16 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

To sum this up-

we have Democrats seeking to fundamentally transform civilization’s role model for the last 200yrs-

we have Republicans largely blaming all ills on earth on our great nation.

They’re too similar for an idiot such as myself to differentiate.

It’s just very strange that on a conservative forum. I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time defending President Trump and our great nation.


27 posted on 07/09/2024 7:44:18 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: Leaning Right
They may not have gaslit you with regards to Biden, but they sure did gaslight you on Russia.

The reason why neither Russia nor Ukraine can make large military gains is because Ukraine is relatively open and flat country with satellites and swarms of drones overhead. Whenever Russia or Ukraine attempted to mass troops or machinery, they were quickly identified by the opposition, targeted and destroyed.

This is why Russia is fighting a war of attrition rather than a war of territorial gain. An area is pounded by artillery, then a relatively small squadron of troops and vehicles are sent to occupy what remains. Even the Ukraine maps show that all the gains made by Ukraine during last year's Summer Offensive have been retaken and then some by the Russians.

The incursion near Kharkiv has proved very successful for Russia as it has drawn what few reserves Ukraine has left to Vovchansk allowing Russia to gain ground along the entire southern military contact line.

Russia is winning the war of attrition despite what appears to be relatively little territorial gain, unless you believe the same people who told us that Biden was the best modern president with a quick and capable mind.

28 posted on 07/09/2024 7:44:39 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: A strike

I never said that Russia was going for all of Europe! That’s what the British general was implying. I argue against that.

Anyway, your use of the word “idiot” when referring to me is, at least, counterproductive. I enjoy a good conversation here on Free Republic. And I often learn something new.

But insults do nothing to advance the conversation. Please try to be more civil. And if that’s not possible, please do not reply to me. It would be a waste of both our times.


29 posted on 07/09/2024 7:46:17 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: lightman

Heh, I had that for an email sig for a couple years. Nice.


30 posted on 07/09/2024 7:48:03 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Leaning Right
Russia can’t even beat Ukraine. So Russia is no threat to the UK. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan won’t affect the UK in the least. And the UK has no strategic interest in the Israel/Hamas conflict. But by all means, huff and puff Sir Patrick. Do it as hoards of Muslims overrun your country. That’s where the danger lies. Feel free to ignore that.

Great points...

31 posted on 07/09/2024 7:51:16 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

> They may not have gaslit you with regards to Biden, but they sure did gaslight you on Russia. <

I don’t get why you would start with a personal insult. Such things are never helpful when trying to advance a point of view. So how’s about a polite conversation instead?

> Russia is winning the war of attrition despite what appears to be relatively little territorial gain… <

Totally agree. There is no way Russia can lose this war, absent a (foolish) intervention by NATO. The whole thing is a sad - and quite avoidable - mess.


32 posted on 07/09/2024 7:53:30 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I could be wrong but it seems as if Russia,China and North Korea have recently become fast friends. If that’s true it’s not good. At all!


33 posted on 07/09/2024 7:54:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: Leaning Right
No insult intended.

I used to be a libertarian. Then I was a Neocon.

In both cases I was successfully gaslit.

The purveyors of nonsense do a very good job.

34 posted on 07/09/2024 7:58:47 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Carriage Hill
Yup....thanks, cuz.

And espcsialy thanks for that ancient Greek proverb:

A society grows great when old men plant trees
in whose shade they will never sit

Doesn't apply to most of my Tulip Poplar a.k.a. Lirodendron transplants but a few from a decade ago are now providing meaningful shade!

35 posted on 07/09/2024 7:59:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Because neither are offering to be “trading partners” and nothing but.

China (Xi) began this by aggressively cutting ties with the “west”, restricting FDI and changing the terms of trade. It also turned actively hostile vs foreigners in China. It started pushing out on all its borders (skirmishes with India, egging on the Pakis), surrounding Taiwan during its exercises, claiming Japanese and Philippine islands, etc.

This is not the China that the US granted MFN status to in 2001.

This China openly demands an imperial regime over its “near abroad”.

Russia is the same. After the “west” financed (and built, largely) its petroleum and gas production systems, with a pile of FDI, Russia turned to similar imperial dreams. Russia did not take its oil wealth to develop its own economy and provide better lives for its people. It didnt do a Norway, though it could have.


36 posted on 07/09/2024 8:01:05 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Freest Republican

+1


37 posted on 07/09/2024 8:01:20 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: buwaya

I also like fantasy thinking.
What do you think about Brazil imposing Portuguese on South America?


38 posted on 07/09/2024 8:03:31 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Who’s gonna fight it? The 3rd world hoards that these governments seem to love?


39 posted on 07/09/2024 8:04:02 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: Leaning Right

“k, half correct.
You never did say that Russia was going for all of Europe!
but you did say Russia can’t even beat Ukraine which IS a real idiot claim.


40 posted on 07/09/2024 8:05:46 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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