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Britain’s top army general, Sir Patrick Sanders, who took over the general command of the British army on Monday, has warned his troops to go back to war in Europe in a possible World War III with Russia, the Daily Mail reported.
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Sanders called for preparations to fight and warned the soldiers that we were the generation to prepare an army to fight in Europe again, because the Russian invasion of Ukraine was shaking global stability.
In a message to British troops, he wrote: “I am the first Chief of General Staff since 1941 to take command of an army in Europe in the shadow of a land war involving continental power – the continuing threat from Russia shows that we have entered a new era of insecurity.”
“It is my special duty to make our army as deadly and effective as it can be,” the army commander said, adding: “Now is the time and we have the opportunity to use it.”
It comes at a time when Putin is threatening NATO countries and this week ridiculed former Soviet states in Europe, saying “They are part of historic Russia.”
Putin made the remarks in response to a statement by Kazakh President Kasim Jomart Tokayev, who sensationally declared that he did not recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine.
Tokajev, who sat a meter away from Russia’s despot at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, described them as “quasi-state territories.”
“We do not recognize Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia or Abkhazia – we apply this principle to the quasi-state territories that we believe are the people’s republics of Luhansk and Donetsk,” the president of Kazakhstan said boldly. on Putin’s war in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian president sat quietly, reflecting on Tokayev’s comments, before a calm but quietly threatening warning appeared.
“What is the Soviet Union?” Putin asked rhetorically. “This is historic Russia.”
He went on to describe Kazakhstan as a pro-Russia nation, but quickly added: “The same could have happened to Ukraine, but they would not be our allies.”
Maximilian Hess, a researcher at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told The Telegraph that Tokinev’s remarks were “a clear threat” and that Tokayev was dependent on Russian support for the widespread unrest in Kazakhstan in January.
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