The faint roar of the British lion

Juan López Páez

"Let the British lion roar”

Boris Johnson

Grant Shapps, the new UK Defense Secretary, in his first speech

official has tried to earn a place in the Hall of Fame with a style

aggressive in issuing the country's official defense stance, resuming old parallels with

the 1930s.

Deter, Lead, Defender

On the stage, three slogans behind him: Discourage, Direct, Defend, his speech in

Lancaster House in London in front of an audience of high-ranking military officers and

politicians was a poor, warlike plea of hackneyed slogans in defense of the old Empire

British, said: "But it is not enough to deter. We must lead. Defend our

values around the world»

Shapps in his sermon reflected on the post-Cold War era marked by the

optimism suggesting that this period of apparent tranquility could be coming to an end

end, "We are at the dawn of this new era – the Berlin Wall is a memory

distant–». He stressed that the ongoing conflicts suggest a change: «we have gone from

post-war world to the pre-war world (…) we have come full circle.

In the long diatribe he indicated that "the era of the peace dividend is over. In five

"In years we could be facing multiple theaters," he told the 4 Outlaws.

international in his martial opinion, warned that the United Kingdom "must prepare for

new wars against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in the next five years"

Shapps boasted that the UK has trained more than 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers in

British soil and took the opportunity to announce: "today the United Kingdom will send some 20,000

troops to lead one of the largest NATO deployments since the end of the

Cold War: Exercise Steadfast Defender" that will join forces with troops from 31 allies

NATO and Sweden, which will operate in several countries, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Alliance

of NATO.

Meanwhile the Royal Navy's flagship, the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth,

was scheduled to participate in the largest Atlantic Alliance maneuvers held in

NATO since the Cold War, due to a problem with the propeller shaft it was stranded. “A

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