Escalation watch: West ramping up war rhetoric, ‘terror plotters’ given bail in UK

War rhetoric from the UK and its Western European allies has reached a fever pitch, with British elites warning of an imminent clash with Russia and blaming Iran for a bizarre plot uncovered at a US airbase. With no letup in sight, RT is tracking the escalation and debunking the psyops in real time. In the space of a single week, retired British generals told the BBC that the public must be “psychologically prepared” for conflict with Russia, a Labour Party thought leader suggested that dissidents and Russia sympathizers be “locked up,” and former Brexit Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg told British men and women that they “may have to die” in a cataclysmic European war.This was a marked shift in rhetoric from the British elite. Since 2022, five successive prime ministers have insisted that the UK will arm Ukraine “for as long as it takes” to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, but only a handful of bellicose generals and analysts have predicted an imminent military clash with Moscow. The tactical situation has not changed, and Russia has repeatedly insisted it has no interest in a wider conflict with NATO, but talking heads from both the Labour and Conservative parties are now speaking ...