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The UK must consider a Swedish-style of conscription in order to boost its numbers, according to the former head of MI6.It seems that it's less difficult finding recruits in country with a virtuous leadership, and with a righteous cause: Russia to increase troop number to 1.5 million in response 'external threats' - Shoigu
Sir Alex Younger also said Britain needed a "wake up call" in relation to the size of its Army.
The British Army today is the smallest it has been for 300 years, and Sir Alex told the BBC the UK should look to Sweden.
General Sir Richard Barrons, a former head of Joint Forces Command, said two years of war in Ukraine had proven that the Armed Forces might need to be considerably bigger if a European war broke out.
But in January, the-then Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said any talk of the UK introducing conscription to the Army if Nato goes to war with Russia was "nonsense".
He said the UK had long had plans readied for mobilising volunteers in the event Britain does enter a new conflict, but stressed "nobody is thinking" about bringing back conscription.
The remarks came after comments made by General Sir Patrick Sanders, the outgoing Chief of the General Staff, were interpreted as suggesting that conscription could be required in any potential future battle with Russia due to the British Army being too small.
Number 10 ruled out any suggestion that conscription was under consideration, saying there were no plans to change the British military's "proud tradition of being a voluntary force".
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1) The Russian Ministry of Defense quite regularly publishes short briefings about the discoveries made with slides, and sometimes additional documents. It is not difficult to understand, but patience is helpful.
The first image in the article appears in a slide presentation, which can be found here.
On the same site that hosts the the link just given, https://eng.mil.ru, one can make a search for Igor Kirillov briefing, Since Kirillov has been the spokesperson on the matter for a number of years, there are several results. While the following lead to the short articles, or speeches given, the articles often contains links to slides.
10.03.2022 Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine
14.04.2022 Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine
18.08.2022 Briefing by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, on results of analysis of possible provocation at Zaporozhye NPP
03.09.2022 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
19.09.2022 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on recent consultative meeting of BTWC member States
24.10.2022 Briefing on radiation security threats by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
26.11.2022 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
2412.2022 Highlights of the briefing following the 9th Review Conference of States Parties to the BWC by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of The Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces
28.02.2023 Briefing by the Chief of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops of Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on the West preparations for large-scale provocations involving toxic chemicals in Ukraine
10.03.2023 Briefing by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops
24.03.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops of Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on consequences of West nations' supplying Kiev-regime with depleted uranium ammunition
07.04.2023 Briefing by the Chief of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops of Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on analysis of documents relating to U.S. military and biological activities
26.05.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops General Lieutenant Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity
18.07.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
16.08.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity
09.19.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on the U.S. military-biological activity
31.10.2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
15.01.2024 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military-biological activity
19.02.2024 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of Armed Forces of Russian Federation Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on violations of Chemical Weapons Convention by U.S. and Ukraine
2) When the author in the one of the last paragraphs writes: "A top Russian diplomat" could he not have been specific? Left to guess, it could be the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov:
Lavrov slams US bioweapon activities near Russia for creating 'very dangerous precedents' and the 'direct threat to public health'
US outsourced dangerous infections studies to other countries - Lavrov to RT
Here are the documents the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine scrubbed on 'biological threat reduction' labs
'Zelensky goading Biden into war with Russia' and other highlights from Lavrov interview with RT
Lavrov: Russia is worried about US bio-laboratories in Kazakhstan
What's cooking? The alarming rise of US bio-defense labs on Russia's borders
Another candidate is the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova:
Will the US and Germany turn Mongolia into a biological warfare testing grounds against Russia and China?
West will brush Ukraine biolab allegations under the carpet just like those of Kosovo organ trafficking
Russia warns US about biological weapons concern
Best of the Web: Escobar: Cutting Through the Fog Masking 'a New Page in the Art of War'
UK, Slovakia, Sweden, Czech Republic among most probable source of 'Novichok' - Moscow
3) Below are a few search items for SOTT, the number of articles is only an indication, as it will grow with the number of saved articles growing.
Biological warfare
Title: (15)
'Covid-19 an Act of Biological Warfare', US 'Intentionally Released Virus in Wuhan', EU Parliament Summit Told
โPentagon's biological warfare built on war crimes of fascist Japan and Nazi Germany
The secret history of Fort Detrick, the CIA's base for mind control experiments and biological warfare
โWill the US and Germany turn Mongolia into a biological warfare testing grounds against Russia and China?โRussia prevents Washington from unleashing biological warfare
โDry-run for WWIII? Covid-19 is practice for future biological warfare claims top Russian doctor
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Text: (251)
Biowarfare
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Biden, Clinton, Rockefeller, Soros are financing US biowarfare projects, Ukrainian documents reveal - Russian Defense Ministry
โUkraine War: Biowarfare and the theft of billionsโ
Biowarfare, Nazi scientists and the creation of Lyme Disease in the US
โBiowarfare? Researchers say current strain of Ebola much more lethal and suggest links to US biowarfare labsโ
Summary: (20)
Text: (125)
Comment: (61)
Biological weapons
Title: (17)
UK and US jointly develop biological weaponsโ
Pentagon Biological Weapons Program Never Ended: US Bio-labs Around The World
โDo Ukrainian biolabs violate the ban on biological weapons programs?โ
Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons: Israel's arsenal is a plague upon the world
โRussia warns US about biological weapons concernโ
A brief and horrific history of biological weapons and warfareโ
Summary: (164)
Text: (503)
Comment: (84)
Bioweapons
Title: (51)
Cutting off the head of the snake: Swiss banker Pascal Najadi calls on Swiss authorities to arrest people behind the release of "bioweapon" COVID-19 shot
โRussia says US is PLOTTING to create 'new pandemic' using virus mutations as bioweapon, poses 'global threat'
โRFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson we have bio labs in Ukraine 'because we are developing bioweapons'โ
Lavrov slams US bioweapon activities near Russia for creating 'very dangerous precedents' and the 'direct threat to public health'
โUS making 'bioweapons components' in Ukraine - Moscowโ
US activities in Ukraine are a smoke screen for criminal bioweapons researchโ
Final draft on US bioweapons activity in Ukraine presented to UNSC
โUkraine-US bioweapons labs were researching African swine fever, Covid, monkeypox, Russian General revealsโ
Summary: (116)
Text: (427)
Comment: (177)
Bacteriological weapons
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Summary: (2)
Why is the United States getting away with unleashing a global biological war?โ
Japanese WWII torture document eerily reminiscent of U.S. torture program
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Ukrainians ask themselves what biolabs supervised by the US Department of Defense might be doing in Ukraine
Ethnic weapons
Title: (1)
Ethnic Weapons: Russia suspends human clinical tests abroad over terrorism threatโ
Summary: (2)
Rogozin: Bioweapons developed in Ukraine affect the reproductive system of Russian women
Ethnic specific weapons: The real story behind the murder of Dr David Kelly
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Ethnic specific weapons
Title: (2)
Ethnic-Specific Weapons: Leaked Documents Reveal US Diplomats in Georgia Trafficking Human Blood And Pathogens For Pentagon Biowarfare Laboratoryโ
Summary: (3)
Text: (20)
PNAC, COVID-19 And The Age of Bioweapons: 20 Years of Psychological Terrorโ
Comment: (51)
Genetic weapons
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Summary: (3)
Weapons that could change geophysical landscape, human DNA to appear soon
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Dilyana Gaytandzhieva on SOTT
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, a Bulgarian journalist, has written extensively about biological weapons and weapons smuggling and uncovered much in the years before Russia made its discoveries in Ukraine in 2022. Though not all articles below the links are about bioweapons, many are.
Author: (17)
Pentagon Unit A1266 studies bioterrorism agents in Kazakhstan - right on Russia and China's doorstepโDocuments expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine and Georgiaโ
Potential pandemic bird flu modified to be more dangerous in new risky NIH research
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Summary: (14)
Text: (43)
Comment: (85)
4) The article can be seen in the context of current news and developments, here are just a few:
NATO 75 years on... A war machine long past its sell-by date
Moscow: NATO is an US tool to confront Russia in Europe
UK, German officials are latest in Europe calling for conscription 'in the event of war'
Best of the Web: France preparing deployment of 1,500 Foreign Legion to Ukraine in April โ Russia
Ukrainian military leaders know they can't win on battlefield - Guardian
Best of the Web: Ukraine (ahem, the CIA and MI6) threatens another terrorist attack on Crimea's Kerch bridge
Why is NATO's, Neo-Nazi junta's cover-up for terrorist attacks in Russia so sloppy?
Best of the Web: Death of empires: History tells us what will follow the collapse of US hegemony