Sir Richard Shirreff - To Avoid World War 3 Britain must Prepare for War with Russia as a Deterrent.

Britain is failing to prepare itself for war with Russia, warns Richard Shirreff. Britain must ‘fight a second cold war to avoid a third world war’ he said in a widely reported commentary. Britain is not properly prepared to defend itself in a war with Russia and cannot rely on the United States as it once did. So how quickly must Britain act, and what will it take to effectively prepare for war? ---------- Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. Richard is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strategia Worldwide. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA, and Poland. He is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:03:13 Britain depends on NATO, is an integral part of NATO and should lead NATO. 00:04:17 This concern by Biden about escalation, particularly nuclear escalation. 00:07:55 Russia has only ever been an empire. Empire is deeply ingrained in its DNA. 00:09:21 Denazify Ukraine, which is disgusting terminology from a fascist like Putin. 00:14:03 The only way Putin can consolidate his position is by continued aggression. 00:18:50 Britain would find it extraordinarily difficult to generate a warfighting brigade. 00:23:42 The ability to harness the ingenuity which is in this country in abundance. 00:28:42 If a strategy to defeat Russia in Ukraine had been adopted right from the start. 00:37:00 It's already moving on in Moldova and Georgia by hybrid asymmetric means. 00:41:23 UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada should be stepping up to the mark more. 00:45:02 The Kremlin has been at war with NATO since 2014 – hybrid and asymmetric. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shirreff https://twitter.com/RichardShirreff https://www.strategiaworldwide.com/our-people/sir-richard-shirreff https://www.globsec.org/who-we-are/our-people/gen-ret-sir-richard-shirreff https://www.brookings.edu/events/is-armed-conflict-with-russia-a-real-possibility/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podca