Western nations should prepare their peoples for a long-term drop in living standards if their standoff with Russia continues, the Britain’s former Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, Jonathan Shaw, has said.
“We in the West have the wrong mentality” about the conflict in Ukraine, he said. Once one of the British Army’s most senior officers, Shaw was speaking on talk radio station LBC on Saturday.
“We are obsessed with humanitarian concerns and individual suffering, and that makes good TV, but the reality is this is far more serious than that,” the Major-General, whose
30-year career spanned the Falklands and Kosovo to commanding the UK forces in Iraq in 2006, warned.
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“We need to be psychologically preparing our people for a long-term degradation of standard of living and a long-term confrontation with Russia,” he argued.
“Our quality of life back home absolutely depends on them – cheap fuel, cheap access, doing deals with Saudi Arabia, and things like that,” Shaw pointed out.
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West must prepare for 'long term degradation' of living standards, ex-army chief warns - LBC 20220326
The former Assistant Chief to the Defence Staff, General Jonathan Shaw, warns the standard of living will 'get much worse' in the West as countries stand up to Putin. Britain's former Assistant Chief to the Defence Staff stated that the attitude of the West in the conflict has failed to look at the bigger picture for far too long.
The former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff warned
"for the next few years we need to really buckle down and I don't think we're preparing our populations for that sort of hardship and that attitude."