Russia Poses Greater Threat Than ISIS, New British Army Chief Warns

• New British army chief stepping up the anti-Russia war propaganda just before the 25 Nov Ukraine incident in the Sea of Azov.
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• Russia Poses Greater Threat Than ISIS, New British Army Chief Warns
  by https://www.theguardian.com/international, 24 Nov 2018
  General Mark Carleton-Smith says UK cannot be complacent about threat Russia poses ‘or leave it uncontested’
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  Russia “indisputably” poses a far greater threat to national security than Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Qaida and Isis, the new head of the British army has warned. General Mark Carleton-Smith said the UK cannot be complacent about the threat Russia poses “or leave it uncontested”.
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  The former SAS commander said Russia had made plain its preparedness to use force to expand its interests, while it had also been “systematic” in its efforts to exploit cyber space and undersea military arenas. “The Russians seek to exploit vulnerability and weakness wherever they detect it,” he told the Daily Telegraph.
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  “Russia today indisputably represents a far greater threat to our national security than Islamic extremist threats such as al-Qaida and Isil,” he said, using another name for Isis. Carleton-Smith, who graduated from Sandhurst in the final years of the Cold War, took over as chief of the general staff in June. He led the hunt for Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 terror attacks and later spearheaded Britain’s role in the campaign to defeat Isis.
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