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Ryan Bridge: Should we be preparing to go to war? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: An interesting article in the Herald yesterday about army training
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  Speaker 1: at Wayoudu the troops now singing from the same song sheet.
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  Speaker 1: It seems as Winston and Judith in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: threatening the world is at the moment. Senior army commanders
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  Speaker 1: quoted as saying, the pressure on our defense force is
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  Speaker 1: greater than at any time in recent living memory. And
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  Speaker 1: they're betting billions. This is the government billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: and extra funding for equipment, for kit for houses on
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  Speaker 1: the base that aren't covered in mold. But in order
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  Speaker 1: for any of that to be useful, you need soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: You need personnel. In order to get personnel, you need
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  Speaker 1: people who understand the importance of the task at hand,
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  Speaker 1: and I just don't think enough young people, people of
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  Speaker 1: mind generation and younger actually get it. Look no further
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  Speaker 1: than Germany, where they're protesting over a requirement for men
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  Speaker 1: aged forty five and younger to inform the government of
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  Speaker 1: their whereabouts if they leave the country for three months
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  Speaker 1: or more. If they go on an oe, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to tell the government where you're going. It's similar to
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  Speaker 1: a rule they had during the Cold War, and it
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  Speaker 1: is basically preparing for a time when they may need
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  Speaker 1: a return to conscription compulsory service. Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Denmark, Finland,
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  Speaker 1: to name a few, already do this. The Korean pop
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  Speaker 1: band BTS you heard them before. They've just celebrated the
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  Speaker 1: end of their military service with a concert and soul.
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  Speaker 1: But overwhelmingly in the West, there is I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a bit of ignorance, would that be the word
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  Speaker 1: antipathy of the threats that our leaders tell us we're facing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we don't quite believe that there are any
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  Speaker 1: How could you teach the wellness generation, the influencer youths,
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  Speaker 1: the zoomers as they call them, that in order to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the comforts of liberal democracy, sometimes you might have
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  Speaker 1: to fight for them. You might have to make sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: for them. We've not been to war, we've not experienced war.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even want serious criminals, the criminal youths going
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  Speaker 1: to boot camps, let alone us. There's a general feeling,
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  Speaker 1: I think that wars are fought in far away lands
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  Speaker 1: by somebody else, when evidence is mounting that one of
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  Speaker 1: these wars might one day soon be fought closer to home,
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  Speaker 1: and the others might actually be us for more from
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