{"id":634125,"date":"2025-12-15T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634125\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:55:13","slug":"the-5-doomiest-russia-warnings-from-britains-military-chiefs-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634125\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 doomiest Russia warnings from Britain\u2019s military chiefs \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what appeared to be a message to spendthrift ministers, he warned: \u201cThere is no room for complacency. Our would-be opponents are investing billions. We have to step up or we will lose that advantage. We cannot let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Spy games everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/john-healey-russia-spy-ship-yantar-directed-lasers-uk-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called reporters to Downing Street<\/a> last month to condemn the \u201cdeeply dangerous\u201d entry of the Russian spy ship \u2014 the Yantar \u2014 into U.K. waters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Britain deployed a Royal Navy frigate and Royal Air Force P8 planes to monitor and track the vessel, Healey said. After detailing the incursion, the U.K. Cabinet minister described it as a \u201cstark reminder\u201d of the \u201cnew era of threat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur world is changing. It is less predictable, more dangerous,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>No way out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Healey\u2019s deputy, Al Carns, followed up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-defense-minister-al-carns-war-nato-allies-europe-military-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with his own warning<\/a> last week that Europe must be prepared for war on its doorstep.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Europe is not facing \u201cwars of choice\u201d anymore, but \u201cwars of necessity\u201d which will come with a high human cost, Carns said, citing Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what appeared to be a message to spendthrift ministers, he warned: \u201cThere is no room for complacency.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,14787,473,393,4884,2817,2818,2819,2597,809,1144,332,712,16,657,15,1764,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-634125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cold-war","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-intelligence","16":"tag-intelligence-services","17":"tag-john-healey","18":"tag-military","19":"tag-negotiations","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine","29":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115724165066661343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634125","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=634125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}