This is ridiculous. Russia is no invasion threat to the UK, or anywhere else in Western Europe. The only potential threat would be from missiles targeting weapons production sites in retaliation for Europe arming Ukraine in order for them to attack deep into Russian territory. Russia lacks the capacity even if they wanted to take European territory, which they don’t. They don’t even want western Ukraine, which, unlike eastern Ukraine, is actually full of hostile Ukrainians, and no one in their right mind wants to rule over a permanent insurrgency. Western Ukraine is full of Russians who’ve been abused by the government in Kiev for many years, and shelled since the US-backed coup in 2014, costing some 14,000 lives. Russia stepped in to protect them when it became clear that the Ukrainian army was headed east to eliminate them. Now that Russia has spent blood and treasure to save them, it won’t be giving up the five oblasts it’s claimed (Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizha, and Kherson), backed by popular referenda in each one. Four more oblasts (Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, and Dnipro) may be added to the list if Ukraine continues its NATO-funded-and-supplied war. None of this affects western Europe directly, only impoverishes it, due to the billions sent to Ukraine rather than spent on their own people, and disarms it, due to the mountain of old equipment sent.
several European countries are now foolishly and unnecessarily talking about conscription, with the UK seemingly at the front of the pack. The media is now chiming in to support this:
The UK is doing this while raising taxes on the people, many of whom are desperately stuggling to make ends meet, in order to send yet more money to the financial blackhole of Ukraine. This money will then promptly be stolen by the Ukrainian kleptocrats, in what is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
At the same time, Britain wants to remilitarise, and will need to tax and squeeze its poor citizens even more. Remilitarisation to any reasonable standard isn’t even possible, no matter how much can be extracted from the population, and the UK has no experience of modern drone warfare in any case. Soliders sent into combat with obsolete tactics and equipment will simply be slaughtered. One only has to watch the Ukrainian and Iranian wars to see how much warfare has changed. As Neil McCoy-Ward points out in the headline video, Rome taxed its farmers 90%, and then watched them abandon the empire. Many Britons are doing the same, with a major exodus of both young people and the wealthy, who have the option to avoid being squeezed.
Energy lockdowns are also coming, even though Britain gets most of its energy from Norway, not from the Persian Gulf. Neil discusses the existing legal framework allowing for it to happen, some going back to the oil shock era of the 1970s. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 provides for legal energy lockdowns. The Energy Act of 1976, updated in 2000 when the UK saw fuel riots, provides for control over the fuel supply by creating a framework for deciding who can have fuel, for restricting usage, for setting up an allocation system to prioritise different sectors. There is also a Petroleum Act of 1998.
The UK was obviously aware that energy security might be an issue, yet did not establish reserves. Instead, after the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, it threw caution to the wind and exploited those reserves at the highest production to reserve ratio of any oil producing region. Those reserves, plus the City of London financial ponzi scheme, are the reasons the UK did not collapse, and indeed boomed, when it lost its empire. Both of these factors are now about to go into reverse, as North Sea oil and gas in the UK sector peaked years ago, and the end of the major debt cycle is rapidly approaching, which will be fatal for the ponzi scheme. UK citizens have no idea what’s about to hit them. Few seem to remember the late 1970s, when a desperate Britain went cap in hand to the IMF and a three day work week was introduced. Few remember the coal miners strike of the 1980s, which almost brought down the power grid. The Great Depression is the 1930s has almost entirely passed out of living memory. What’s coming will be a terrible combination of all of those factors. The UK is headed directly towards a world of hurt.
