General who warned about ‘accidental’ war with Russia gets replaced. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin (second from left) took over as Chief of Defence Staff on November 30, 2021
“Carter was originally supposed to retire in June, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked him to stay in the post for a few more months. In what turned out to be one of his last interviews, he told CNN in mid-November he feared an accidental conflict with Russia now more than back during the Cold War era.
“’And I think we are now into a period where it’s more multi-polar, and I think in a multi-polar world with people competing for different objectives and on different agendas, there’s a greater risk of tension leading to the sorts of things that we are talking about,’ he said.”
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