The former head of the British Army warned the UK had to build more bomb shelters for the public and prepare for a potential war against Russia in the next five years
The UK must start to build bomb shelters now to prepare the nation for a potential war against Russia in the next few years, and ex-Army chief warned.
This chilling message, from the former head of the British Army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, came as tensions between Britain and Mad Vlad’s dictatorship continue to worsen. The military boss declared that he feared a clash with Vladimir Putin in the next few years was a “realistic possibility”. General Sir Patrick, who stepped down as Chief of the General Staff last year and has since retired, warned the UK was seriously underprepared for a war against Russia in it’s current state.
Sir Patrick made his eerie remarks yesterday, warning dictator Putin could turn his attention away from Ukraine and towards the UK. He told The Telegraph: “If Russia stops fighting in Ukraine, you get to a position where within a matter of months they will have the capability to conduct a limited attack on a Nato member that we will be responsible for supporting, and that happens by 2030.”
The ex-Army boss claimed there were “conversations” with the UK government about building bomb shelters for the public in the event of an attack on the nation. Sir Patrick said underground command centres for the army were also discussed but claimed these talks were unsuccessful.
He revealed what the apparent reason for the government’s decision not to start building civilian shelters was, saying: “It always came down to a conversation of it being too costly and not a high enough priority and the threat didn’t feel sufficiently imminent or serious to make it worth it.”
Sir Patrick questioned why the government was not acting to put these conditions in place, and said: “I don’t know what more signals we need for us to realise that if we don’t act now and we don’t act in the next five years to increase our resilience … I don’t know what more is needed.”
He then compared the UK to Nato countries neighbouring Russia, like Finland, Poland, and the Nordic nations, saying these countries have been “proactive” in preparing their population against a strike or attack from Mad Vlad.
Sir Patrick said these have included “a set of instructions on how to prepare for the consequences of that – loss of power, loss of fuel, storing food, they encourage them to have their own defensive bunkers, whether that’s in cellars or civil defence – they encourage people to volunteer for civil defence roles to protect key bits of infrastructure”.
He even claimed the UK’s funding for air defences was “much lower” than it should be, urging the government to raise the amount of cash they put into this part of the military. Sir Patrick has not been the only expert to warn that the UK’s defences against missiles is weak.
Professor Anthony Glees, a security and defence expert from the University of Buckingham, previously said the UK has “no fixed systems” and is woefully unprepared for these types of air attacks.
He said: “It should stress at the outset, of course, that the whole of our national defence strategy is about deterrence, that our foreign policy is defensive not offensive and that if we become as strong as we now want to be, thanks to [Prime Minister Kier] Starmer and his European colleagues and thanks (yes!) to the goading from president Trump, then WW3 can surely be averted.”