The British government, with the support of the opposition, is currently engaged in acts of war against the Russian Federation. It has approved the use of British made and supplied missiles to the Ukrainian state in order to attack targets within pre 2014 Russia. The Russian government has made it clear that such actions constitute war against the Russian Federation. Although just over half of UK voters still support Britain’s actions against Russia, few realise that we have just committed acts of war against that country. The most recent IPSOS poll was taken before the British Storm Shadow missiles were launched. Keir Starmer’s government has pushed us into a war with the Russian Federation without consulting the British people and apparently with the support of the main opposition parties. This is how British democracy works in a matter of life and death for the British people. 

The latest British aggression against Russia, together with similar actions by a rudderless outgoing American administration, have resulted in the Russians deciding to escalate their response. A long range multi warhead hypersonic missile launched from deep within Russia devastated an industrial region of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The Russians are making it clear that if attacks on its territory continue it has the means to launch devastating non-nuclear attacks within and beyond Ukrainian territory. Britain is highly vulnerable to such strikes and has no means of countering them. One can only hope that even politicians as dim as Starmer and Lammy understand this.

Britain is particularly vulnerable as a strike on British bases or even on British territory against military or intelligence targets would not lead the United States to risk its own security through a military response. Furthermore, an attack on British assets or on Britain itself would come as a complete surprise and shock to the British people who have been led to believe that the Russian Federation is a feeble, corrupt and incompetent country which we have nothing to fear from. It is hard to imagine a more dangerous misperception. The British public have been consistently lied to by their government, their opposition, the BBC and the oligarchic media as to the intentions and capabilities of the Russian Federation, but we are coming close to discovering the truth in a most uncomfortable way.

The British have no understanding of how Russians perceive their situation.  Britain has not been invaded since the Dutch paid us a visit in 1688. The last serious devastation by an invading army was the harrying of the North by William the Conqueror’s forces in the winter of 1069-70 which is said by some authorities to have destroyed most of the population in the north of England and certainly killed many tens of thousands. War to the British public is something that you see on the television. Loss, suffering and death are abstractions. Russia on the other hand experienced the death of millions of its citizens 80 years ago. Every family in Russia has former family members who fought and died in the German invasion of 1941-45. Russians know what it means to fail to maintain national security and they are determined that no-one will humiliate, invade or destroy their country again. If that means that countries like Britain receive a sharp lesson in the realities of modern warfare, then Russia is fully prepared to deliver that lesson. 

What, however, is most shocking about this is that the behaviour of the British political class is so reckless and irresponsible. These are people who make it their business to run the country but appear to remain ignorant of the risks to which they are subjecting themselves and their fellow citizens. Either that or they are wicked beyond measure, a possibility which, unfortunately, cannot be entirely discounted. Our political class are corrupt warmongers who appear to believe that their reckless actions will have no consequences. They could not be more wrong and they will probably discover their mistake before too long at great cost to their country and its reputation. 

Sixty two years ago, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis British citizens and even schoolchildren were aware of the peril in which we stood. The essential truth of the situation was not kept from them. We now have a ruling class and a compliant media who keep the truth of Britain’s irresponsible foreign policy from them. Britain needs to wake up before Starmer and his gang of hooligans plunge us into a devastating war with Russia.