Top NATO official Adm. Rob Bauer warned Thursday that a larger war with Russia and other adversaries is a real threat amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Bauer, chair of the Western security alliance’s Military Committee, said “not everything is going to be hunky dory in the next 20 years.”

“I’m not saying it is going wrong tomorrow, but we have to realize it’s not a given that we are in peace,” he said at a press conference in Brussels. “That’s why we have the plans, that’s why we are preparing for conflict with Russia and the terror groups if it comes to it.”

Bauer emphasized the security alliance is defensive and does not seek conflict or a wider war.

“But if they attack us, we have to be ready,” he added.

  • LanternEverywhere
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    1610 months ago

    Don’t bank on it. It’s a possibility of course, but it’s at least as likely that it doesn’t happen, so you should do reasonable preparations for if the society you’re living in DOESN’T collapse.

    • Sabata11792
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      310 months ago

      if the society you’re living in DOESN’T collapse.

      I honesty can’t tell if this is the bad ending or not.

      • @Delta_V@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        In the Cyberpunk 2077 setting, survival is the unhappy ending.

        from the soundtrack:

        You see, there’s no convenient apocalypse
        Won’t be no vaporizing cloud
        Now we’re gonna have to soak in what we created - too bad!
        Just not in a pleasant, easily resolved, no questions asked, nuclear global happy ending with a big bow on top