Britain is failing to prepare itself for war with Russia, warns Richard Shirreff. Britain must ‘fight a second cold war to avoid a third world war’ he said in a widely reported commentary. Britain is not properly prepared to defend itself in a war with Russia and cannot rely on the United States as it once did. So how quickly must Britain act, and what will it take to effectively prepare for war?
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Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. Richard is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strategia Worldwide. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA, and Poland. He is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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CHAPTERS:
00:03:13 Britain depends on NATO, is an integral part of NATO and should lead NATO.
00:04:17 This concern by Biden about escalation, particularly nuclear escalation.
00:07:55 Russia has only ever been an empire. Empire is deeply ingrained in its DNA.
00:09:21 Denazify Ukraine, which is disgusting terminology from a fascist like Putin.
00:14:03 The only way Putin can consolidate his position is by continued aggression.
00:18:50 Britain would find it extraordinarily difficult to generate a warfighting brigade.
00:23:42 The ability to harness the ingenuity which is in this country in abundance.
00:28:42 If a strategy to defeat Russia in Ukraine had been adopted right from the start.
00:37:00 It’s already moving on in Moldova and Georgia by hybrid asymmetric means.
00:41:23 UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada should be stepping up to the mark more.
00:45:02 The Kremlin has been at war with NATO since 2014 – hybrid and asymmetric.
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38 Comments
What would happen if Trump can get a peace tready with Russia and prepare your country for peace since its going broke from this Ukraine war you know you lost.
The longer you fight Russia the more land Ukraine loses.
This seems like stupidy.
Is a nucklar war worth it.
800,0000 dead Ukraines.
Russia is broke they lost to many of their men why would they waste money, time and arms to attack Europe.
This makes no sense.
I thought Europe was a Empires.
Now its a broke Empire.
Ukraine is a Natzi country.
Trump wznts to stop the kilking.
Its got to stop sooner or later.
Better sooner
Americans are sick of paying billions to Ukraine for a war they could care less about.
Russia wanted to join NATO.
Why did you spit in his face…
Britain can only pray
A hierarchical animal is almost completely disabled by the loss of its head.
Britain is no longer a force when it comes to thos level of wars.
Will he be in the front line? Will any member of his family or "class"? Only the "lower classes" do The fighting while The elites do The talking. The British warmongers are at it again. Russia cannot afford its war with Ukraine and nobody will join in another world war. Britain was unable to finish its last war with Germany and had to call in America and Russia to save them.
England is in no position to go to war with anyone. It couldn't even keep a border in neighbouring Ireland. You are in no position for war so keep your heads down and your mouths shut.
The day the conflict in Ukraine ends, without the defeat of Russia, will be marked as ‘the day the empire ended’. Exceptionalism will no longer stand, and the dollar will no longer be backed by an omnipotent power that abused and bullied every nation to bend to its will. President Putin and world leader will assure NATO that "Russia will not advance an inch to the West"……
Britain can’t organise a pi** up in a brewery yet alone a war.
This is not the Holly War.It is a war for Stalin borders between 2 actors that are both bad. Ukraine did treat all minorities bad, there are documented reports from different countries long before people knew where Ukraine is, but nobody cared.
About reading the russian DNA as imperialists, my country was split under Habsburg,Tsarist and Ottoman empire, how about that DNA argument?
Definitely not no war in UK………………
Clearly nato ie the US are the problem.
Clearly nato ie the US are the problem.
Clearly nato ie the US are the problem.
Good luck getting the youngsters to fight for this country (and to be fair i don’t blame them)
Starmer and his chancellor and the rest of their comrades needs to be in the front line with their crooked corrupt comedian US puppet Zelenskyy instead of dragging UK troops to hell…NATO just as corrupt as the US oligarchs full of evil imperialists…and without Russia Hitler would have ruled Europe…
Helping nazi in Ukraine no way uk army can't stop I dinghy
Helping g grandsons of grandad who killed u grandad unbelievable
Does Sir Richard Shirreff hold shares in military equipment? The UK would be obliterated by Russian hypersonic missiles before the British missiles had reached France.
Can Britain deter Yemen?????
From the time l know Ucrane, it never was independent. First, URSS comand Ucrane, after that US. Now Ucrane depend on USA even to pay the staff's salaries. Without US That's no Ucrane. This last week Zelenky said what l just said.
Shirreff is so wrong about Russia s intent, and the real origins of the war. There is only 1 empire operating here, the USA
The real stupidity was getting into this situation in the first place, many seen what would happen, a total failure of diplomacy, especially on USA
Who exactly are they going to get to fight this war to keep globalists in power? The working class backbone of the British army will not want to know, the British establishment has done nothing but demonise the very people it will want to mobilise!
😂 Britain won’t last a week
Why ??
Zilinski is a CIA asset!
Predictive programming used on Ukrainians to get him elected and the rest is no laughing matter!
Total BS Russia just doesn't want NATO on its borders. Why is NATO carrying on this expansionist campaign? The Warsaw pact was dissolved in the early 90s.
NATO should have stood down. The Ukrainian army is losing…are you blind?
Si vis pacem para bellum
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How do you make that out? And where will you be? At the front line? I bet
US foreign policy in the Middle East.
German Christmas market attack.
Is there a link?
He just has a book to promote
Thanks for helping Ukraine . And intelligent conversations .
When Sir Richard's book 'War with Russia' was released in 2017, whatever tory non-entity was defence minister (Hammond?) derided it as: 'what old generals do to pay off their mortgages'. This was only 3 years after Putin had seized Crimea. As a Brit I am continually embarrassed by the quality of our so-called politicians, their lack of strategic vision & inability to see beyond their own egos. 14 years of ruinous torydom cannot be fixed overnight but, thankfully, now they rot in the dustbin of history, we have an opportunity to rebuild our military. I hope Starmer & co see it & have the courage & vision to act on it.
Try and find out.
BS, absolute BS.
Owe frog off Dic ,
This title; like my former president Rutte who is now in charge of NATO. Is fearmongering. Russia couldn't even take over Ukraine in 3 YEARS, in fact, they got invaded themself. LET ALONE FACE NATO'S COALITION.
Well done guys this is comedy gold. A couple of desperate admirers of the failed British empire slagging Russia for dreams of empire is so very sad. I hope Trump does the right thing and ends NATO for good. Russia is winning and will win.
The days of the mighty GREAT BRITAIN are long gone. Both the army and royal navy is a joke, pathetic. Forget standing against Russian. Sit back and enjoy your cup of coffee.