Sunday, October 4, 2015

Sputnik — Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials

Senior British army officials urged NATO authorities to “revisit Cold War scenarios” and prepare for full-scale war in the wake of Russian achievements in tbhe fight against ISIL militants in Syria and development of cutting-edge T-14 Armata battle tanks.
Former UK army officials said that the Russian military is more effective in comparison to NATO’s, calling on the bloc’s leaders to urgently invest more money on improvement of joint force capabilities and to “revisit Cold War scenarios, and this includes conventional, symmetric warfare in Eastern Europe,” The Sunday Express reported.…
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Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials

9 comments:

Anonymous said...



Not ANOTHER Totalitarian Oligarchy.

Peter Pan said...

Can't do it - it will lead to a budget blow out. Have to live within our means, right?

John said...

Ah, it makes you feel proud to be British! Every time the US needs a lunatic to egg it on, you can count on some damn fool here in the UK to deliver any number of eggs, scrambled, fried and poached to order.

It's like watching Dr Strangelove, with the exception that the only sane character happened to be British, the utterly splendid Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.

Peter Pan said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY

Jose Guilherme said...

Bibi is sounding like a model of reasonableness and rationality when compared with these guys (see the story on his interview with Zakaria).

Interesting times indeed.

John said...

Bob, my favourite line by Mandrake is when he's asked by Ripper if he was ever tortured. Mandrake says he was by the Japanese but: "I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras."

If you want to understand the world, watch Dr Strangelove. Washington has finally gone totally bonkers, and the UK has gone "full retard": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q

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Roger Erickson said...

Translation:

"My US brother can whip your butt ... (even though I can't)."

Remind me why we'd want to save the Royal Family's butt, along w all their other faux divine upper classes claiming the right-to-bugger-peasants.

Didn't we once fight a war to be free of such influences?