{"id":611545,"date":"2025-12-04T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:26:17","slug":"majority-of-brits-doubt-uk-prepared-for-russia-west-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611545\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of Brits Doubt UK Prepared For Russia-West War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-thirds of Britons do not think the UK is ready for a wider war between Russia<\/a> and the west, according to a damning new poll.<\/p>\n

YouGov<\/a> has found 66% think Britain is either not very \u2013 or not at all \u2013 prepared for war against Moscow, with only 15% of the public saying the opposite.<\/p>\n

In a sample size of 5,960 adults, the pollsters found the vast majority of voters felt the same, regardless of their political leanings.<\/p>\n

Almost two-thirds (65%) of Labour<\/a> and Lib Dem<\/a> voters, 75% of Tory voters and 78% of Reform voters, were all in agreement: Britain is not ready for war.<\/p>\n

The survey comes after Vladimir Putin <\/a>issued a bleak warning to Europe on Tuesday \u2013 while hosting a US delegation ahead of further peace talks.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready now. They are on the side of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kremlin went on to reject Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> revised peace plan, after European allies altered the first iteration over fears it was too pro-Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov insisted that the Russian president had not actually rejected any of the proposals, but just that \u201csome things were accepted, some things were marked as unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n

After the talks collapse, Keir Starmer\u2019s spokesperson hit back at the Kremlin\u2019s aggressive war talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is yet more Kremlin claptrap from a president who is insincere about peace,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe espouses rhetoric about Europe wanting to go to war that is as dangerous as it is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson also responded to concerns about wartime readiness, saying: \u201cEuropean nations are united in support of Ukraine\u2019s right to self-defence under international law and Nato<\/a> is ready to respond to any threats with unity and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cOur armed forces always stand ready to defend this country.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational security is clearly number one priority of any government.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nato chief Mark Rutte pushed back against Putin\u2019s comments too, saying: \u201cNato is a defensive alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will remain a defensive alliance, but make no mistake, we are ready and willing to do what it take to protect our one billion people and secure our territory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of Britons do not think the UK is ready for a wider war between Russia and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,657,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-611545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-ukraine","10":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661057893889414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611545","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=611545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}