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To be concerned about a war?

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Namechangesecretsignature · 16/12/2025 08:14

Woke up this morning opened my SM and first posts I see are about a basically inevitably pending war with Russia. It’s the first I’ve heard of it. Sir Richard Knighton said the threat needs to be taken seriously and “called for greater honesty with uk families about what it means to prepare for the very real threat to national security”. He also said security situation is more dangerous than it has been at any point in his career and the UK can no longer rely on military forces alone to keep security safe. Finally the comment of “sons and daughters must be prepared to fight” it would take a “whole nation effort” and “families would have to face real sacrifice”

i mean wtaf? I certainly won’t be rushing to the frontline that’s for sure. What’s going on? Very concerned

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Sparron · 18/12/2025 01:22

BreakingBroken · 17/12/2025 21:55

@Sparron would you not protect your home/yourself and your children if drones attacked you?

Thats an old and ridiculous argument, used against conscientious objectors in WW1. That was another pointless mass slaughter of the young. We needed more objectors not less.

Hopefully our current generation of young people won't be conned so easily to throw their lives away.

I will happily go to prison if it means me or family don't have to die on the say so of Keir Starmer ot Ursula von der Leyen.

How about you? Are you measuring your kids for their uniforms already?

SouthernNights59 · 18/12/2025 05:18

Sparron · 18/12/2025 01:22

Thats an old and ridiculous argument, used against conscientious objectors in WW1. That was another pointless mass slaughter of the young. We needed more objectors not less.

Hopefully our current generation of young people won't be conned so easily to throw their lives away.

I will happily go to prison if it means me or family don't have to die on the say so of Keir Starmer ot Ursula von der Leyen.

How about you? Are you measuring your kids for their uniforms already?

Do enlighten us as to what you think would have happened if people hadn't gone to fight in WWI and WWII.

kittywittyandpretty · 18/12/2025 07:20

Sparron · 18/12/2025 01:22

Thats an old and ridiculous argument, used against conscientious objectors in WW1. That was another pointless mass slaughter of the young. We needed more objectors not less.

Hopefully our current generation of young people won't be conned so easily to throw their lives away.

I will happily go to prison if it means me or family don't have to die on the say so of Keir Starmer ot Ursula von der Leyen.

How about you? Are you measuring your kids for their uniforms already?

Which is why there’ll be no option to go to prison this time

Princejoffyjaffur · 18/12/2025 11:28

I think we will see a civil uprising before we see a war with Russia.

Hancox432 · 18/12/2025 11:31

If the EU can't push through the use of frozen Russian assets today then we will all have to fit the bill. Warmongering is an easy way for the government to scare us about the worst case scenario to then say well let's fund Ukraine to carry on doing it instead in the hope of less opposition to huge tax rises etc to fund it.

BarbieShrimp · 19/12/2025 09:49

Sparron · 18/12/2025 01:22

Thats an old and ridiculous argument, used against conscientious objectors in WW1. That was another pointless mass slaughter of the young. We needed more objectors not less.

Hopefully our current generation of young people won't be conned so easily to throw their lives away.

I will happily go to prison if it means me or family don't have to die on the say so of Keir Starmer ot Ursula von der Leyen.

How about you? Are you measuring your kids for their uniforms already?

Oh, right, those prisons which are famously safe from aerial attacks. Right.

We're in this together one way or another.

GentleSheep · 19/12/2025 12:53

Hancox432 · 18/12/2025 11:31

If the EU can't push through the use of frozen Russian assets today then we will all have to fit the bill. Warmongering is an easy way for the government to scare us about the worst case scenario to then say well let's fund Ukraine to carry on doing it instead in the hope of less opposition to huge tax rises etc to fund it.

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So the EU have failed and as a result the rest of us will have to pay up! There will be a €90 billion loan to Ukraine financed by joint debt to keep Ukraine solvent. Putin laughing once again!

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-mocks-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-backs-frozen-asset-loan-ukraine-summit/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-frozen-assets-europe-ukraine-war-b2886806.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/12/13/frozen-russian-assets-and-the-moment-of-truth-for-the-world-order/

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