The Chief of Defense Staff of the United Kingdom, Nick Carter , has warned that there is a greater “risk” of an accidental war between the West and Russia than at any time since the Cold War. This warning, which seems to have arisen from the always well-off festering between Russia and Europe and the United States, is currently a plausible reality in the opinion of the British army chief.
The UK’s highest ranking military officer has also pointed out that there is now a heightened risk of tensions in the new era of a “multipolar world” , in which governments compete for different goals and agendas.
“I think we have to be careful that people don’t end up allowing the belligerent nature of some of our policies to end up in a position where escalation leads to miscalculation,” Gen. Nick told Times Radio in an interview. Sump.
The military official also clarified that the recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus and the tension in Eastern Europe in recent weeks, after the European Union accused Belarus of airlifting thousands of immigrants to provoke Europe at the border with Poland, a member of the EU, has further altered the existing differences between Russia and NATO .
President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that NATO’s unscheduled drills in the Black Sea posed a serious challenge to Moscow and that Russia had nothing to do with the crisis on Belarus’s border with the bloc.
However, the tension on the Polish border grew at times this week with images of the military power that both Russia and Belarus have tried to show by deploying air landing maneuvers in a training field located in the province of Grodno, very close to the area where the immigrants are.
Russia thus announced the holding of a series of “combat readiness” exercises, bringing a large deployment of paratroopers to the area in the neighboring country. Minsk said the maneuvers are due to increased military activity on its border.
“The character of the war has changed”
“After the bipolar world of the Cold War and the unipolar world of American domination, diplomats now face a more complex multipolar world,” said Cartes, adding that “the traditional diplomatic tools and mechanisms” of the Cold War are no longer available.
“Without these tools and mechanisms, there is a greater risk that these escalations or this escalation could lead to a miscalculation,” he said. “So I think that’s the real challenge we have to face.”
On the group of soldiers deployed by Britain to the Polish border this week, he said it was a small team of British military that had been deployed to “explore engineering support for Poland” on its border with Belarus.
