Last week Europe took a major step towards full scale military confrontation between Russia and NATO. De facto low level confrontation is already happening, but no official acknowledgement has been made. If this conflict was officially declared then it would trigger World War 3 scale of confrontation with millions of troops on both sides, not to mention thousands of nuclear warheads. NATO’s half-in, half-out position was always likely to be a slippery slope into full-on confrontation. A huge slip along that slope was made when several NATO member countries authorised the use of their long range weapons to strike Russian territory. Almost immediately two long range strikes were reportedly made on Russian radar facilities deep inside Russia. One in the Krasnodar region and one in the Orsk region, these are the two radar facilities in the map in the bottom left (map from Telegram channel milinfolive).
One might half expect, later in the summer or early autumn, an announcement on TV that the UK is at war with...... A COUNTRY......."to safeguard democracy, to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies" and on and on with the war rhetoric. However, another world war won't be allowed to happen, because it would be the end for everyone. Even limited nuclear exchanges would do terrible damage to the environment, and, shock horror! exacerbate 'climate change'....what about those emissions chaps? Gutterez....." I was exaggerating the 'global boiling' thing to frighten the plebs, I don't want any heat in my neighbourhood!"
These war-mongering hawks really need to take a good look at western countries. The western militaries are all under-staffed - more people leave than join! The USA has a bloke in a frock running the show - how many grunts is that encouraging to sign up? Certainly here in the UK the elites have spent the last 20-plus years educating British people that white people are scum and the country they live in is historically disgusting. Why, exactly, would anyone want to take up arms to defend somewhere they have been taught to believe is and always has been totally wrong? And why would anyone want to fight the Russians in a war that has absolutely nothing to do with us? Even the Ukrainians don't want to fight the Russians, judging by how many of them fled (and I know far too many have died fighting but I suspect most of them didn't really want to be fighting a war that could have been easily avoided).
This is a frightening prospect. Even though I have been preparing since 2021/22, I have always hoped I would be proved wrong.
One might half expect, later in the summer or early autumn, an announcement on TV that the UK is at war with...... A COUNTRY......."to safeguard democracy, to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies" and on and on with the war rhetoric. However, another world war won't be allowed to happen, because it would be the end for everyone. Even limited nuclear exchanges would do terrible damage to the environment, and, shock horror! exacerbate 'climate change'....what about those emissions chaps? Gutterez....." I was exaggerating the 'global boiling' thing to frighten the plebs, I don't want any heat in my neighbourhood!"
These war-mongering hawks really need to take a good look at western countries. The western militaries are all under-staffed - more people leave than join! The USA has a bloke in a frock running the show - how many grunts is that encouraging to sign up? Certainly here in the UK the elites have spent the last 20-plus years educating British people that white people are scum and the country they live in is historically disgusting. Why, exactly, would anyone want to take up arms to defend somewhere they have been taught to believe is and always has been totally wrong? And why would anyone want to fight the Russians in a war that has absolutely nothing to do with us? Even the Ukrainians don't want to fight the Russians, judging by how many of them fled (and I know far too many have died fighting but I suspect most of them didn't really want to be fighting a war that could have been easily avoided).