"Britons could be called up to fight in war with Russia, army chief to warn"

We spend £3.2 billion a year on a nuclear deterrent £35 billion upgrading Trident , money well spent !!!

 

Have to keep an eye out for those “Knights who say Niddd”

 

We could all sit at our keyboards on here and tell them how crap they were doing.

 

You might want to keep that to yourself.

 

‘Sunak’s picked the wrong formation, we should be pressing the Russian’s more’

 

I don't know the context of this quote, but I'm assuming it has something to do with the recent criticism from our allies about the dwindling size of the UK's standing Army and the issues around recruitment, despite a massive new contract having been awarded to the failing recruitment partner of the government (shock). It's not the first time that the lack of investment in our forces has been flagged by senior militrary officials held up against the backdrop of Ukraine, the Russian 'threat' and general global permacrisis that we seem to be living through at the moment.

Personally, I'm not sure conscription of a standing army would come into the equation if the world's nuclear powers ever decided to have a proper tear-up, hence why the idea of a "war" with Russia feels all too real at the moment, but is simultaneously abstract due to the nuclear deterrents held by all sides.

I'm still booking my holidays for this summer

 

Well, they sorted the Greeks out when they were getting upperty about some stones or other.

 

Balls!

 

Imagine our government trying to put their foot down for anything especially conscription. I've just spat tea through my nose.
If one of those limp wristed pin cushions turned up at ours to come and get one of my kids, I'd get the family together so we could have a jolly good laugh in their peculiar faces.

 

Could well be, we haven't been involved in a nuclear war so our deterrent must be working.

 

If we put boots on the ground in Ukraine we might just find out if that continues, Putin already made an implied threat of using nukes

 

'foreign intruders' -- we're already here mate !

 

Count me in if it's the fuzzy wuzzy's we're fighting, they don't like it up em.

 

Surely Able Seaman Dawson?

 

They don't like it up em

 

Is he wanting his legacy to be that he destroyed civilisation as we know it?

 

Rationality isn’t his strong point at the moment