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There is of course another option, which is to fully arm, equip, and support Ukraine, now.
They can and will win with sufficient support, and its a far better investment than waiting for things to get far worse (and far more expensive).
Money spent supporting Ukraine now, getting them to victory, represents a material savings over having to further spend later to fix the mistakes we’ve made in failing to fully support Ukraine up until now.
They are always ready to kill your kids in defense of their interests. Them and their kids? Not so much.
We can help them with that.
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Can’t we just take all of the sociopaths from the banking industry and stick them on the front line?
As long as we put the health insurance execs, the pharma execs and the big ag execs right there with them.
"Could we try offering actual support to our soldiers and competitive pay and benefits, and eliminating toxic military cultures, to increase recruitment?
No. It is the people who don’t want to ruin their health and their life for minimal benefits in peacetime who are wrong."
We do see that’s the general’s goal, right? He doesn’t actually want conscription; he wants funding and attention.
Who the fuck is the UK going to have a land war with, exactly?
I think instability of the world at the current moment is being acknowledged by military brass throughout NATO as having the potential volatility to see current regional conflicts expand considerably. Middle East, Taiwan, NK (unlikely but a bit of a crapshoot always), Ukraine, etc. Throw in the wild card that is Trump and his rhetoric surrounding NATO and Europe combined with his embrace of Putin and Russia/dictorial aims in the US and you’ve got several things that would have you worried presently. His job is to make sure the UK is ready to address any situations that arise I think statement is more publicly acknowledging that troubled waters COULD be on the horizon.
I never get why people who were handed a gun and told to march off and die over there wouldn’t just turn the gun around at the person sending them to be killed?
Like does anyone feel like the shit state of the world, where the elite class are giving us a worse quality of life than previous generations is worth sacrificing ourselves for?
this was a big problem the last time the US tried to use a slave army in Vietnam.
World War I had that happen several times actually, look up the Christmas truce.
Or just pay them all enough that people join.
So… time to consider conscription.
I think the government would find it difficult to make all the young people go. If they all protest, what are they going to do, put them in our overcrowded prisons?
This is a horrible time in history to be a pacifist 😮💨
Fuck them all. I’m not fighting their meaningless war…
What does “Sir Richard Sheriff”, “Supreme Commander” of the army knows about life. I won’t let him choose how I die.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s time to “think the unthinkable” and consider introducing conscription to ready the country for a potential land war, Britain’s former top NATO commander has said.
General Sir Richard Sherriff, ex-deputy supreme allied commander of the military organisation, warned that the UK defence budget is not big enough to expand the armed forces alone.
“Britain’s armed forces have traditionally and culturally relied on long service volunteer highly professional soldiers with huge experience - and that is really the way we would all want it to go on.”
The head of the British Army said UK citizens should be “trained and equipped” to fight in a potential war between NATO and Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Major General Charlie Herbert, a military analyst who has served as a senior NATO adviser, said Sir Patrick was trying to “provoke a debate”, nationally and within government, about the size of the army and the defence budget.
“There’s a 1939 feel to the world right now,” senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood told Sky News on Wednesday, warning conscription was a possibility.
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“We need a slave army.” –The good guys
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The conscription would include women. What is your point?
Looks like I need to read more carefully. Thanks.
As always, feminist countries
That’s not a thing that exists sir.
cease to be so
It’s not possible to cease being something that doesn’t exist, but also if these feminist countries regularly stop being feminist countries were they really feminist countries to begin with?
when it comes to giving them
Them who? Feminists? Countries? Just these specific countries that are somehow feminists? When you use a pronoun, it refers to a noun that has previously been used.
equal treatment that is negative for them.
“Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, who suggested British men and women could face a call-up to the army in the event of a war with Russia.”
Thank you for your hilarious nonsensical irrelevant word salad! I enjoyed it very much.
Lol, I see you enjoyed it a lot, you recreated yourself for so long writing your angry reply that another user corrected me long ago and I deleted my comment, and the mistake you mention I fixed even more ago. Next time, if it takes you so long to write, better check before sending.
Although the effort wasn’t worth it either, you didn’t address my point. In fact apparently according to you countries have no laws, policies or governments; maybe it’s the UK from another universe that doesn’t even jail women for misdemeanors and doesn’t recognize men as rape victims.
Wot?
