He was not making a case for conscription or for an imminent call up of volunteers. Instead, he was urging Britain to prepare for a mass mobilisation of tens of thousands of people, should war break out. As Gen Sir Patrick Sanders stated several times in his speech on Wednesday, "Ukraine really matters". Russia's ambitions, he said, were not just about seizing territory but "about defeating our system and way of life politically, psychologically and symbolically". " https://bagge-albrechtsen.mdwrite.net/the-lessons-military-planners-are-learning-from-the-ukraine-invasion-and-what-it-means-if-the-uk-went-to-war-with-russia-1706607174 is that even without outside support, the Ukrainians will continue to fight," she told Newsweek. "Ukraine may shift tactics to deal with a downturn in Western aid, but I don't believe they will surrender."
