Großbritannien bereitet sich auf den Krieg vor - und Deutschland ?

Written on 02 June 2025.

Großbritannien solle sich auf einen Krieg vorbereiten, indem es dem Beispiel der nordischen und baltischen Staaten folgt, sagt Admiral Sir Tony Radakin.

Der Chef des Verteidigungsstabs besteht darauf, dass das Vereinigte Königreich seine Verteidigung ausbauen solle, um sich auf künftige Konflikte im Hinblick auf die zivile Bereitschaft und die nationale Widerstandsfähigkeit vorzubereiten.

Er verwies auf Länder wie Schweden und andere europäische Staaten, die ihre Bereitschaft als Reaktion auf die wachsende Bedrohung durch Russland erhöhen.

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Admiral Radakin äußerte sich kurz nachdem Verteidigungsminister John Healey Kürzungen im Verteidigungsbereich angekündigt hatte, um ein „schwarzes Loch“ von 22 Milliarden Pfund zu stopfen.

Während der Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz sagte Admiral Sir Tony Radakin: „Ich denke, wir müssen erkennen, dass wir uns in einer anderen Position befinden, einer etwas schwächeren als meine (nordischen und baltischen) Kollegen auf dem Podium.

„Es ist ein Gebiet, in dem wir nicht die Kultur der totalen Verteidigung haben.

„Uns fehlen einige der zivilen Aspekte oder Planungsaspekte, die andere Länder innerhalb der Nato als Teil ihrer Tradition haben.

„Wir führen diese Gespräche, um von unseren Kollegen zu lernen und herauszufinden, was für uns selbst angemessen sein könnte.

Die Äußerungen des Admirals ähneln denen des ehemaligen Chefs der britischen Armee, General Sir Patrick Sanders, der sagte, Großbritannien solle eine „Bürgerarmee“ ausbilden und ausrüsten, um das Land auf einen möglichen Landkrieg vorzubereiten.

Schweden hat vor kurzem eine Informationsbroschüre für seine Bürger veröffentlicht, in der Ratschläge gegeben werden, wie man im Kriegsfall Schutz sucht, wie man mit Strom- oder Wasserausfällen aufgrund von Raketeneinschlägen umgeht und welche Lebensmittel, Medikamente und anderen Vorräte man im Falle eines nationalen Notstandes anlegen sollte

U.K. Faces Most Serious Military Threat Since Cold War, Starmer Says

Prime Minister Keir Starmer cited “growing Russian aggression” as he outlined ambitious rearmament plans, including building up to 12 attack submarines

SIR Keir Starmer today puts the country on a war footing — as he warns we must ­prepare to “fight and win” against our enemies.  The Prime Minister is ordering the biggest investment in the production of guns and bombs since the Cold War.

Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Sir Keir said Britain is facing a “more dangerous world” and the time has come to “transform how we defend these islands”.

He added: “We will meet this moment head on — by mounting the kind of response not seen before in most of our lifetimes.

"We will restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness as the central purpose of our Armed Forces.

"We are being directly threatened by states with advanced military forces.

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UK prepares for possible attack from Russia

The updated defense plan will outline a strategy for the days following an attack on the UK mainland by a hostile foreign state.

It will include scenarios in which Britain is hit by missiles, nuclear warheads, and cyber operations, the Telegraph noted.

​​The Cabinet Office has already simulated a scenario in which a hostile state simultaneously launches missile and cyberattacks on national infrastructure. A risk assessment published in January concluded that such an attack would likely result in civilian casualties, severe economic damage, and significant disruptions to essential services.

The less reliable the USA becomes as an ally under Trump’s presidency, the more vulnerable Europe is to an all-out Russian invasion, General Sir Richard Shirreff argues.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is prepared to exploit that, Shirreff believes, meaning the ceasefire Trump is strongarming Ukraine into will never lead to peace.

British forces may find themselves at the forefront of defence against Russian aggression if they’re stationed in Ukraine as peacekeepers or in the Baltic states with NATO. Ultimately this would lead to the UK announcing it is formally at war with Russia, with Britain’s allies in Germany, France and Italy following suit.

But years of political polarisation – often fuelled by Russian money, bot accounts and astro-turfing – may have succeeded in dividing Nato. ‘As well as Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the US refuses to offer support’, Shirreff said.

He predicts this war won’t be contained to just countries on the peripheries of Europe.

Russia could fire its missiles at RAF bases in England and other targets in Western European countries, which launch retaliatory strikes on Russian energy and military infrastructure, while sending reinforcements to the Baltic states.

Shirreff has a rather elaborate fantasy for the next two years – from Russian troops executed in the Donbas, to another Putin landgrab in Ukraine, welcomed this time by Trump under the guise of peace. The retired general sees a future where former boxer and mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko replaces Volodymyr Zelensky as President of Ukraine.

Klitschko, Shirreff thinks, will then use the return of all-out war to fire nuclear missiles – developed in the next two years – at Russia, destroying a city, sparking an ultranationalist coup in Moscow and the secession of various ‘vassal republics in the far east and the Caucasus. ‘

‘Fiction this might be’, Shirreff wrote. ‘But if we duck the opportunity to become masters of our fate, it will be Putin, not us, who is in control.

‘Again, whether the West can survive depends on how well prepared we are.’

There is plenty of evidence of Russia’s desire for expansion.

At least 150,000 people – mostly civilians – were killed when Russia suppressed a war of independence in Chechnya, a region of Russia, in the 1990s.

Hundreds died and nearly 200,000 were displaced in its invasion of neighbouring Georgia in 2008. Regions of the country remain occupied.

Fantasising about the outbreak of war by 2027, Shirreff said: ‘The hundreds of billions of euros poured into strengthening our armed forces in the past two years means we can defend ourselves – and hit back hard.’

On that, European leaders appear to already be acting by hiking spending while weighing up plans to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, with or without US support.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced an extra £13.4 billion in defence spending each year from 2027, in a statement to the House of Commons last month.

He told MPs: ‘One of the great lessons of our history is that instability in Europe will always wash up on our shores, and that tyrants like Putin will only respond to strength.’

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen announced up to £674 billion for rearming Europe and Ukraine earlier this month.

Poland leads the way with a plan to spend 4.7% of its GDP on defence – higher than the 3.4% spent by the US last year.

France’s defence budget is expected to reach £57 billion per year by 2030, up from £42.5 billion this year.

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