Anyone who understands how societies are manipulated, nudged towards certain opinions and actions, should be concerned. Two stories in quick succession have me wondering if we’re being primed for a war with Russia.
The first, on Monday, was an Exclusive report by Deborah Haynes on Sky News, revealing “A senior US general has privately told Defence Secretary Ben Wallace the British Army is no longer regarded as a top-level fighting force”. Years of cuts have degraded our ability to defend ourselves on the world stage, specifically “the growing security threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia”.
Direction established, a related story today nudges us ever-so-slightly towards the idea of a war with Russia.
Dan Sabbath reports in The Guardian, the outgoing general of the British army, Sir Patrick Sanders, due to retire in July, has warned the “people of the UK are part of a “prewar generation” who must be prepared to fight a major war against Vladimir Putin’s increasingly aggressive Russia”.
I might be wrong, this could just be a strategy, a distraction, to divert attention away from our failing government, anticipating the imminent general election, but two stories in quick succession, hinting at and nudging us towards war with Russia feels, well prescient?