Trump trolls Europe with Greenland image as he issues 5-word warning <\/a><\/p>\nIf we don\u2019t, then Putin will know for sure what he already senses: that Britain and its close neighbours have become soft. We work ourselves up into a giant lather of indignation about woke trivialities like nasty social media posts, demanding more and more government handouts for our pet obsessions and benefits handouts, and all the while ignoring the gigantic, ever-growing threat that could, if we\u2019re not careful, be literally civilisation-destroying.<\/p>\n
The woke mob will all look pretty darn stupid if we give Russian troops the chance to advance. They\u2019d quickly realise that freedom ain\u2019t free.<\/p>\n
And what other choice do we have? It\u2019s clear we\u2019re going to fall out with America over Greenland. The trans-Atlantic alliance, and NATO as a whole, is splintering before our eyes. Instead of resenting yanks who are overfed, over-sexed and over here, we\u2019ll be yearning for the days when plane loads of them arrived.<\/p>\n
Finland is a country I know well, visiting it every summer for family reasons. And young men there willingly spend a year in national service, usually straight after school, making sure the country is prepared to fight. They don\u2019t resent it; they welcome it, and learn a whole bunch of life skills in the process.<\/p>\n
What would a year of similar service do for our youngsters, who are currently struggling to get on the employment ladder? It could be life-changing.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in these more egalitarian days, national service can, perhaps should, be for men and women equally. And it doesn\u2019t need to be front-line stuff for everyone. Finnish national service includes working in hospitals and fire brigades.<\/p>\n
I can hear the cries of resentment. Why should I be forced into service for a country I\u2019m not proud of, they might ask. It\u2019s not fair, they might say. Well, maybe it isn\u2019t, and yes, it\u2019s perfectly true that youngsters last had to do national service in this country in 1960. But we are now getting to crisis point.<\/p>\n
Recent surveys have been utterly horrifying. Only 41% of youngsters say they\u2019re proud of Britain. Only 11% say they\u2019d fight for Britain. Well, that\u2019s not surprising given that we constantly trash-talk our own history. But let\u2019s remember that in 1933 the Oxford Union passed this motion: \u201cThat this House will under no circumstances fight for King and Country\u201d. In the end they did, and saved Europe in the process.<\/p>\n
The world has changed massively since Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, and even more with Trump\u2019s second election win. If we sit on our hands, we\u2019ll get our heads shot off. Now\u2019s no time for niceties. Now\u2019s the time to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump shows why UK needs national service (Image: Getty) America is sick to death of defending Europe.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,209483,2993,32,393,71763,4884,2597,209482,1144,332,40194,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-693977","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-british-pride","12":"tag-defence","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-european-defence","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-national-service","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-russia-threat","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115889956741225151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693977","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=693977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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