{"id":307499,"date":"2025-07-31T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307499\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:52:10","slug":"frances-top-general-says-russia-could-attack-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307499\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s top general says Russia could attack in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">RUSSIA IS REARMING fast enough to be a \u201creal threat\u201d to Europe within five years, says General Thierry Burkhard. That is towards the low end of the estimates among his military and intelligence peers. By 2030, he tells The Economist, \u201cRussia will possess the means once again to pose a military threat to Western countries, and European countries in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUSSIA IS REARMING fast enough to be a \u201creal threat\u201d to Europe within five years, says General Thierry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,6218,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-307499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-geopolitics","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949832282404723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}