🇬🇧 In its updated national security strategy, the United Kingdom has, for the first time in many years, explicitly stated the need to prepare for a potential attack on its own territory.
Source: Bukvy
📄 The document emphasizes that increased military activity by russia and armed operations by Iran beyond their borders could draw Britain into open armed conflict.
⚠️ “We must actively prepare for the possibility that the British homeland could come under direct threat — possibly in a wartime scenario,” the review states. Potential adversaries are already laying the groundwork for future conflicts by attempting to pressure Britain through energy and logistics.
🗨️ Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the foreword to the document, stressed: “The world has changed. russian aggression threatens Europe, strategic competition is growing, technology is transforming war and security, and hostile acts are already taking place on British soil.”
💻 The document names russia as the primary external threat due to cyberattacks and sabotage attempts. Iran is also mentioned separately for its cooperation with moscow and its growing destructive activity beyond its own borders.
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