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Defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned of the threat of wider global conflict by the end of the decade as he called for a firm timetable for increasing UK military spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product.
“By the end of the decade, the world will be a more dangerous, unstable place and defence will be more critical to our lives,” he said, highlighting the risk of a wider conflict with Russia, following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the threat posed by a “rising China” and the rise of extremism in Africa.
The world is seeing “the end of the abnormal period [of peace] post-cold war”, he told the Financial Times. “I think a conflict is coming, whether it’s hot or cold is to be seen . . . I think a conflict is coming with a range of adversaries around the world . . . We need to all be prepared for it.”
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“By the end of the decade, the world will be a more dangerous, unstable place and defence will be more critical to our lives,” he said, highlighting the risk of a wider conflict with Russia, following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the threat posed by a “rising China” and the rise of extremism in Africa.
The world is seeing “the end of the abnormal period [of peace] post-cold war”, he told the Financial Times. “I think a conflict is coming, whether it’s hot or cold is to be seen . . . I think a conflict is coming with a range of adversaries around the world . . . We need to all be prepared for it.”
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