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.

The West has imposed draconian sanctions on Russia after it attacked Ukraine a month ago. This includes the US and Canada giving up their need for supplies of Russian hydrocarbon fuels, and the EU and UK announcing plans to join them in the near future.

The restrictions and retaliatory steps by Moscow have already seen energy and food prices spiking in many Western nations. There were reports of British food-bank users refusing free potatoes because they couldn’t afford to boil them. But Shaw predicted that this is only the beginning.

We’ve now decided that as far as Russia’s concerned we’re going to play geopolitics ahead of economics and we’ve to pay a price for that,” he explained.

And, according to the Major-General, governments in the UK and elsewhere aren’t doing enough to ready their citizenry “for that sort of hardship and that attitude.”

“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.

Russia sent troops to Ukraine in late February following a seven-year standoff over Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the breakaway Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered Minsk Protocol was designed to regularize the status of the regions within the Ukrainian state.

https://www rt com/news/552752-ukraine-uk-west-sanctions/

With the level of globalization and economic integration, it is expected that any crisis in any part of the world will affect the rest of the world.

This is evident in the recent increases in the price of gas and crude oil.

We want peace in this world.

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I thought the West is self sufficient. You are sanctioning a country like Russia,they are energy, agriculture, medical,and technologically advanced . Sanctions can't affect them that much.

You are sanctioning someone,but you are the one suffering.

Una mumu no too much. This is just the beginning of the end of Petrodollar dominance. Ruble to the moon.


If not that America is a crook nation, how can I be feeding the west,and you are doing business with me in dollars instead of Ruble, isn't that economic robbery.

This is just the beginning,if Russia just switched of the gas terminal , a month from now,major riot will break out in all parts of this America asslickers called NATO members.

You never fit feed yourself,you want fight Russia because America said so

I smell assassination

989900:
"This man [Putin] cannot remain in power"

-- Biden

take gun go remove am yourself airforce 1 de ready

This is the greatest level of stupidity ever...

You santioned someone but you're feeling the brunt more.... No be juju be that?

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