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re: Putin Nuke Bombers Skirt UK & Orders 160 Jets to Patrol Scotland-UK & Germany Respond
Putin is Preparing to Attack The UK -Russian Spy Ships are Mapping Wind Farms and Key Cables Off The British Coast.
For a long time it was only speculation. Now we know for certain. . There can be only one reason for this – to learn how to sabotage UK and European critical infrastructure in the event of a full-scale war with the West.
BBC News 22 APR 2023
Russian Spy Ships Mapping Wind Farms & Key Cables
For a long time it was only speculation. Now we know for certain
The sobering truth is that our potential adversaries, Russia in the West and China in the East, are gearing up for wider conflict.
That does not mean that conflict will happen –preparation makes it less likely – but we must urgently recognise the extent of the threat to the current order. Our world is becoming markedly more dangerous. And Britain is not ready.
Our collective response over too much of the past 15 years was one of denial, oiled and encouraged by Russian money and influence in the US, UK and EU.
War in Ukraine opened our eyes – just this week Cabinet Office Secretary Oliver Dowden gave an “unprecedented” warning of cyber threats to our national infrastructure; and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been consistently robust – but there is much more we can do.
Some of our closest allies, such as Poland, are re-arming on land at an unprecedented rate. Were the worst to happen, they will be ready to defend European soil.
But the Nato alliance remains dangerously exposed at sea.
Russia is probing for European vulnerabilities. Apart from food, the daily critical requirements of modern society are energy and communications. The underwater arteries of modern civilisation are surprisingly few. For example, just three pipelines deliver 43 per cent of our baseline gas supply. Five interconnectors deliver electricity to and from the UK and Europe (and one more between Britain and Ireland). There are more communications cables, about 70 in all, but a relatively small number of deep-sea sabotage operations could bring our world to a halt without a shot being fired. We were assured that wind farms would bolster our energy security, but few considered their military exposure.
For two decades, Putin has laid the groundwork for unconventional warfare. Current Russian military thinking sees conflict as combining military and non-military tools of state power – the “unification of everything” – into a seamless whole to serve the Kremlin’s aims. It is a form of total war, using everything from culture to cyber to conventional conflict.
It reflects the belief that, according to the head of Russia’s Armed Forces, the “very rules of war” have changed.
US may need MORE nuclear bombs as China & Russia cooperate to create terrifying arsenal
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