The EU was quick to blame the crisis on Minsk's "hybrid war" as it accused Belarus of encouraging migrants to attempt a new route into Western Europe through its territory. The British troops in particular were expected to construct a fortified border wall there.
The general said he believes that the risk of war with Russia was greater now than at any moment of his 44-year-long career and called on the UK to be "careful." His words came as the Ministry of Defence confirmed that a team of British soldiers were sent to Poland to explore how they could provide "engineering support" to Warsaw amid a migrant crisis on its eastern border with Belarus.Įarlier, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak confirmed that NATO nations, including the UK, would help his country to prevent migrants from crossing into Polish territory. The general then warned politicians that the belligerent "nature" of some of their policies could lead to a situation in which "escalation leads to miscalculation." At the same time, he accused the Kremlin of being ready to go to any lengths to supposedly undermine western-European nations and the US.Ĭarter, 62, sounded somewhat nostalgic for the Cold War times as he said that " many of the traditional diplomatic tools and mechanisms that you and I grew up with in the Cold War" are "no longer there." He also called the present-day situation a " real challenge we are confronted with," adding that, without those Cold War-type mechanisms, there is "a greater risk."
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