Warning lights for a coming war are flashing red – and Britain is not prepared
Almost all warnings and indicators that a wider war is coming are flashing red and it is "breathtaking" that the UK government is failing to better prepare, a top academic has warned.
Dr Rob Johnson, director of the Changing Character of Conflict Centre at Oxford University, said China is taking the steps that would be expected to have the ability to attack Taiwan, while Russia could well be readying to launch military operations against a NATO country.
This comes on top of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is in its fifth year, and the US and Israeli war against Iran.
Mr Johnson has compiled a list of 80 "indicators of conflict preparation and coming armed attack" by drawing on the lessons of history, including the run up to the Second World War.
That's odd. Only last month it was climate indicators flashing red.
'Every indicator is flashing red,' says UN as it warns of record 'climate imbalance'
The Earth is close to breaching the key warming threshold of 1.5C - beyond which increasingly severe and compounding climate impacts are triggered.
The answer of course is startlingly simple. What we need is a warning light warning light. This special warning light would be one which flashes red when the next warning light is about to start flashing red, thus giving us a double dose of warning.
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I viewed several news sites as I investigated the 'Warning lights for a coming war are flashing red' story. Most of the warnings were about forthcoming wars, that 'Trump madman', climate change, high pollen levels, viral pandemics, changes to taxation, the predicted economic effects of the Iran war, rioting youths, illegal immigrants. Most of these were stoking anxiety in people who couldn't do anything about it. And therefore pointless.
The only cheering point of the news reports was Stumbler's inability to do anything without at least one U turn. He could be so much worse if he was effective.
DJ - that's a sobering thought, an effective Starmer certainly could be much worse.
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