An analyst has warned that if Vladimir Putin is not overthrown, British citizens should get ready to be called up for duty within the next six years. He also expressed his belief that there isn’t a “snowball’s chance in hell” that the Russian dictator will back down on Ukraine.
Professor Anthony Glees of the University of Buckingham, an authority on security and intelligence, concurs with statements made earlier this week urging Britons to get ready for the possibility of conscription should an all-out war break out with Russia.
General Sir Patrick Sanders, the outgoing commander of the British Army, stated on Wednesday that the nation’s “pre-war generation” had to be ready to respond to the call to duty and build a “citizen army” to defend the King and country.
Top NATO officials worry that simmering tensions over Ukraine might lead to a ground battle between Putin’s forces and Western allies over the next 20 years; Prof. Glees worries that it might happen sooner.
The retired professor proposed in a recent interview that the military start recruiting civilian volunteers over the next three years and prepare for an obligatory call-up within six.
He told the Mirror that, barring a loss by Putin, “the whole of the nation” should get ready for conscription within six years and that the UK government should aim to recruit volunteers now and over the following three years.
He made a comparison between the current state of affairs and that of 1937, the year before the Second World War broke out when conscription was still a long way off.
Gen. Sir Patrick drew a similar parallel nearly two years prior in June 2022, stating that Britain was experiencing a “1937 moment” as the West reconciled with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine months earlier.
Prof Glees continued: ‘I would see a ‘limited conscription’, a call-up of incentivised volunteers, as being very much on the cards if Putin is now thrown out of Ukraine. If there were a wider European or world war, conscription would follow at once.
‘Putin has repeatedly said he wants the post-1997 NATO states to be disarmed and brought back into the Russian orbit, re-creating the system of satellites that was the strategic policy of the USSR. There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of Putin just going away.’
He is not the first to support General Sir Patrick’s opinion that Britain needs to be prepared for war in the event that hostilities with Ukraine escalate into full-scale conflict.
General Sir Richard Shirreff, a veteran of the British Army and a former deputy commander of NATO, urged the armed forces to start “thinking the unthinkable” on Thursday and explore reintroducing obligatory conscription for the first time in 60 years.
People have said that they would not fight for a nation where citizens who were born here must choose between heating their homes or freezing on the streets while our government billets illegal immigrants in opulent 4-star hotels.
Our government puts illegal immigrants before UK taxpayers who have fallen on hard times and those who fought in the UK military services. It’s disgusting.
Our self-serving administration has shown complete disrespect towards men, women, ex-service personnel, and every law-abiding, respectable British citizen for years, all the while allowing or welcoming individuals from all over the world into the UK.
Not only do they let them enter the UK, but they also get priority when it comes to housing, subsidies, and NHS treatment.
It seems that we are now the dumping ground for illegals, and we are seen as a soft touch. We dish out billions for wars or conflicts in other countries, but when it comes to the UK, we get nothing. It’s not Russia that’s a danger to us Brits, but our government, which puts us knowingly in the biggest danger.
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