THE UK Government must put all its resources towards ending the war in Ukraine, a former British Army Colonel has said.
Colonel Hamish Bretton de Gordon told GB News that the Russian Army was a different threat to anything else British soldiers
were ever likely to face.
Speaking to Eamonn Holmes and Isbael Webster this morning, he said: “I do think we’re at a 1937 time, basically at 1937 we didn’t rearm,
we didn’t make it absolutely clear to the Nazis that an invasion of Europe would lead to conflict in Europe.
“And that’s why we need to make it clear. For the last 20 years we’ve been fighting counterinsurgency against Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
“But the Russians produce a very different threat which at the moment we’re not really configured to.”
“In this particular case I do agree with the Government that we have to put all our resources behind this, money, training and bolster Europe with our troops to make sure this conflict is contained and we get peace as practically possible.
“And as Zelenskyy says this war really needs to be over by the winter.”
“If it drags on through the winter, one can see escalation and it spreading wider than Ukraine at the moment.”
His comments came in the wake of remarks yesterday by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, in which he warned that armed forces must be prepared to “fight and win” to prevent the spread of war in Europe.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the “price of freedom is worth paying” and the UK must be prepared to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia for as long as it takes despite the cost.
