Britain warned we are in ‘serious times’ and ‘evil is here and it has come to kill’ – London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The Defence Secretary John Healey has said we are in “really serious times” and the problems in the Armed Forces is “much worse than we first thought.”

Healey said that the British Armed Forces have been hollowed out with decades of cuts and Ukraine’s former military chief warned that Britain must “wake up.”

The new Ukrainian ambassador to London General Valerii Zaluzhnyi warned during a conference this month that “Evil is here and it has come to kill,” Sky News reported.

General Zaluzhnyi and Healey spoke at the British Army’s annual Land Warfare Conference which was hosted by the thinktank the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), the broadcaster reported.

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Healey said that we are in “really serious times” and there is “rapidly increasingly global threats.”

Earlier this month the head of the British Army General Sir Patrick Sanders warned the UK and NATO might have just “5 years” to prepare for war as the world is looking at a “new axis powers.”

The head of the British Army warned that Britain is now in its most “dangerous moment” since 1945.

The Defence Secretary said that all three services, the British Army, Royal Air force and Royal Navy “must be fit to fight not fight amongst ourselves.”

This comes as he said all three services have to stop their squabbling to back pet projects, Healey said, “I really want to see the old rivalries left behind.”

Healey added, “We know all three services face very serious challenges: hollowed out forces, procurement waste, low morale, recruitment and retention crisis and veterans who can’t access the services they deserve.

Sky News reported that Healey then said, “we now also see that these problems are much worse than we thought.”

General Zaluzhnyi said that more than 60 million people were killed in WWI and WWII, in a WWIII warning he asked are we “ready to calmy accept” the true scale of death and suffering in WWIII?

General Sir Patrick told the Times that China, Russia and Iran is “the new axis powers” and we are staring at the most “dangerous moment as any time that we’ve had since 1945.”

He warned that these countries are more of a threat than Adolf Hitler in 1939, he added, “They are more interdependent and more aligned than the original axis powers were.

He admitted that whilst the UK’s armed forces are strong in some areas, such as cybersecurity, he warned we are also weak in others such as “sabotage” and “terror threats.”

In a speech the General said, “Is humanity ready to calmly accept the next war in terms of scale and suffering – this time the third world war?”

After 10-years of fighting between Ukraine and Russia, starting with the invasion of Crimea in 2014 then the war which started in February 2022 in Ukraine, he said that “governments need to wake up.”

General Zaluzhnyi said, “We must honestly tell humanity what exactly is happening and what humanity should be ready for.

“Free and democratic nations and their governments need to wake up and think about how to protect their citizens and their countries.”

He then warned that ordinary citizens must be ready and prepared for war, adding, “Perhaps the most difficult and the most important component is the societal readiness, which is based on honest and transparent communication with the government and people.

“Society must agree to temporarily give up a number of freedoms for the sake of survival. Modern wars unfortunately are total [wars].”