General Shirreff says NATO is unprepared for a conflict with Russia

NATO is not ready for a direct conflict with Russian Federation. This was said by retired British General Richard Shirreff, former deputy commander-in-chief of the alliance’s forces in Europe, in an interview with Newsweek magazine.

Ahead of the bloc’s summit in Vilnius, which begins on 11 July, Richard Shirreff said NATO was not ready for war with the Russian Federation. Nor is he confident that the politico-military bloc will be able to muster the required number of troops to confront Moscow directly.

“Am I confident that NATO will be ready to assemble conventional forces that will be ready for a conventional war with Russia? No, I am not sure,” declares the military man.

The British general assures that the North Atlantic Alliance has failed to cope with Russia’s weakening and has missed the chance to increase its own power. According to him, this happened when Crimea reunited with the Russian Federation.

“There is a massive war going on in Eastern Europe. It is a war on the ground and in the sky, so you have to invest in the sky and the ground, and they haven’t done that. Last year at the Madrid summit, (NATO Secretary General) Jens Stoltenberg announced that NATO would increase the high readiness force to 300,000 – it just hasn’t happened,” Shirreff lamented.

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General Shirreff says NATO is unprepared for a conflict with Russia