Open war on the horizon in between Great Britain And Russia? The biggest concern of British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who has announced that he intends to leave Rishi Sunak’s government at the next government reshuffle, is the very real threat of an imminent direct military conflict between the UK and Russia. Days after a joke made at the NATO summit went viral (he blurted out accusing Kiev of its allies being a kind of Amazon of arms supplies), the outgoing minister stressed in a lengthy interview with the Sunday Times: “If Putin loses In Ukraine he will be seriously injured. He still has an air force and we’re seeing his navy doing some pretty aggressive maneuvers.” According to Wallace, Putin could potentially respond violently in the next three to four years. Putin, he said Wallace“He’s not done with us yet. He will continue to try to blame us, as he did when the Moscow government itself broke the news that the British were behind Prigozhin’s conspiracy.”
As for the threat of using nuclear weapons, this has diminished largely because both China and India have made it clear to the Kremlin that doing so would be unacceptable. However, Wallace is convinced that “it is still present in their doctrine that the use of tactical nuclear weapons is an anathema to all of us”. One way Russia could cripple the UK would be to attack undersea cables carrying communications and energy supplies. “Russia has a program in place to attack critical infrastructure on the seabed, be it fiber optics or gas and oil. They have ships and submarines for that,” the minister warned.