The head of the British Army has said the UK must be prepared to fight a major war in three years and hyped up the threat of a global conflict against Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, The Times reported on Tuesday.
Gen. Roly Walker described the four nations as an “axis of upheaval” and warned they have been working closer together, which is a reaction to US and other Western sanctions.
Walker said no matter how the war in Ukraine ended, Russia would still be “very very dangerous” and “wanting some form of retribution” for the West’s support of the proxy war.
“When you think they are down they [Russia] will come roaring back to get their vengeance,” Walker said.
The Times report said that Walker believes he has until 2027 or 2028 to significantly bolster the UK’s fighting power. He wants to double the British military’s ability to “fight and kill” within three years and triple it by the end of the decade.
“We have just enough time … to prepare, act, and assure the re-establishment of credible land forces to support a strategy of deterrence,” Walker said.
The British Army currently has 72,500 troops in its ranks, which, according to the Times, is the smallest it has been since the Napoleonic era. The UK has also significantly depleted its weapons stockpiles by arming Ukraine.
Earlier this year, a British general acknowledged that the UK wouldn’t last more than two months in a direct war with Russia. Other British officials downplayed Russia’s military superiority over the UK, saying if there was a direct war with Russia, NATO would be involved as well.
Walker’s comments reflect a growing view among military leaders in NATO member states that a direct war with Russia will happen in the future despite the risk of nuclear escalation. US military officials have also been openly preparing for a war with China, another nuclear-armed power.
You don’t have any Soldiers and you don’t have any weapons, so you are screwed.
What would Russia even do if it won? No one likes the British government. Would Russia’s government be any worse?
None of this matters.
NATO is, of course, the axis of upheaval. It is amazing how every time they open their mouth and acuse Putin, Xi, whoever, they are describing their own actions to a "t."
I'm convinced he ejaculates when he thinks of Churchill.
Churchill, the fellow who had the cover detail for the Lusitania drop off, for the Lusitania to reduce speed.
No problem. Just enlist all those millions of Muslims, hand them weapons, and set them loose. What could go wrong?
Russia is doing the same. The Muslims are just going to realise they have more in common and oughtn’t fight one another.
It makes no sense to fight for some government. If you move to the “West,” you’re seeking job opportunities. You don’t want to be involved in some foreign conflict in a foreign land that no one seems to even understand.
There is a war right now in the UK. Their country has largely been taken over by illegals.
That actually matters. This foreign policy stuff doesn’t matter even slightly.
Well, it actually matters to ethnicity-obsessed nationalist cultists.
To everyone else, not quite so much.
Another idiot from west…! This time from UK…!
British empire is done, finished, terminated…! No number of years would bring it back…!
Axis of Upheaval….AUKUS…NATO..Israel
As TomG says below, NATO really is the axis of upheaval with roots in the British/Zionist interests that led to WWI, the same globalist strategy then as is now, though back then megalomania of German leaders pushing for their place in globalist empires added to the madness, along with the British "Great Game" strategy of the 19th century for the Black Sea region, Central Asia and the Middle East, and getting the US to provide the cannon fodder throughout the 20th century. Seeing Russia as an enemy rather than one to negotiate with is the same Great Game strategy, resulting in perpetual war
Thanks to Antiwar for publishing articles from Al Jazeera and even today's DailyMail (which at times does real journalism) we can see a similar strategy of the United Arab Emirites funding war in Sudan and Central Africa, the same strategy of Britian and Israel, of "axis of upheaval" that they can b in the middle of and manipulate. UAE wants to be the Israel of Africa
Boy, they sure do have the best of the best don't they? F*cking idiot. When his city is lit up by a nuke, perhaps he will sing a different tune?
1914 again.
For anyone thinking we have progressed since then, thought wrong. The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
What is it about Brit generals hankering after the imperial past and salivating for more war?
If they don't, then in the next round of defense cuts, the government may decide to get rid of…..Them. Can't have that; need to keep themselves "relevant".
He's an idiot. Britain is incapable of going to war with almost anyone, let alone Russia. Martyanov rippted this guy a new one the other day:
Looks like 2029-2030 still on schedule. Shoutout Donna V.
The West is losing its God given right to dominate the world. The fanatic believers of that particular religion that holds Western supremacy and world domination as self-evident, are in a state of complete and utter panic. The denial phase is giving way to the next. So now, as we are witnessing, the faithful are getting increasingly frustrated and angry, episodically unhinged and alas dangerously self-destructive as they hopefully sooner rather than later begin to slide into depression. These all are truly dangerous times.
The UK "preparing for war" means them spending lots of money sucking up to US congressmen, convincing them that "our fight is your fight", then sitting back while we carry the load, always urging us to "not get wobbly", and "see it through". F them.