英国国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷开展了一场媒体宣传攻势，推动一项新的“Be Ready”（做好准备）运动，以提升英国民众应对危机的准备程度——他表示，这些危机可能包括洪水、野火、恐怖主义和网络攻击，最终甚至可能是战争。
Wes Streeting, the UK’s defense secretary, went on a media blitz to push a new “Be Ready” campaign to boost Brits’ preparedness for crises — which he said could range from floods and wildfires to terrorism and cyber attacks and ultimately even war.
斯特里廷在BBC的“Newsnight”节目中表示：“我们确实生活在一个更加危险、更加动荡的世界里，这一点无法粉饰。”
“There’s no sugarcoating the fact that we do live in a more dangerous and turbulent world,” Streeting told BBC’s “Newsnight.”
“这是在告诉全国各地的家庭，要做好准备，只需在家里储备一些日常必需品，以应对这类事件可能造成的中断。”
“It’s about saying to households across the country to be ready by just having some everyday essentials indoors should there be disruption from these sorts of events.”
这位资深内阁成员列举了应急必需品，如罐头食品、尿布、宠物用品、手电筒、电池、备用手机充电宝，以及“如果当地支付系统瘫痪，家里要有足够的现金”。虽然斯特里廷表示“Be Ready”运动针对包括自然灾害在内的任何紧急情况，但与此同时，他发出了令人不安的警告，称这个欧洲国家必须为战争做准备，暗示战争可能在几年内发生。
The senior cabinet member listed emergency essentials like canned food, diapers, pet supplies, torches, batteries, backup cellphone charging packs and having “enough cash indoors if the local payment systems were down.”While Streeting said the “Be Ready” campaign was for any emergency, including natural disasters, it came at the same time as he gave ominous warnings about the European nation having to prepare for war, suggesting it could be likely within a few years.
他在《每日电讯报》撰文写道：“我们的对手意图伤害我们并非新鲜事。变的是他们的能力。”
“Our adversaries’ willingness to harm us is not new. What has changed is their capacity,” he wrote in the Telegraph.
“到2030年，他们的兵力和战时经济可能使他们处于发动攻击的位置。这给了我们略多于1000天的时间来完成我们的使命：与盟友一道做好战斗并取胜的准备。为了防止最坏的结果，我们必须为最坏的结果做准备。”
“By 2030, their force strength and war economy could put them in a position to attack. That gives us a little over 1,000 days to complete our mission: to be ready with our allies to fight and win. To prevent the worst, we have to prepare for it.”
斯特里廷警告称，对英国的威胁不仅来自“俄罗斯坦克滚滚开过[其]边境”。“这也是国家支持的恐怖主义、破坏活动和敌对行动日益增长的威胁，这些行动旨在扰乱我们的生活、破坏我们的安全、在我们的社区散布恐惧，”他说。
Streeting warned that the threat to the UK isn’t just posed by “Russian tanks rolling across [its] borders.”“It is also the growing threat of state-sponsored terrorism, sabotage and hostile acts designed to disrupt our lives, undermine our security and spread fear in our communities,” he said.
斯特里廷对《太阳报》表示，政府呼吁民众储备物资“并非过分要求”。“我希望人们保持警惕，而不是惊慌失措，”他说。
Streeting told the Sun that the government’s plea to stock up “is not a big ask.”“I want people to be alert, not alarmed,” he said.
上周，超过2500名英法两国军队在德国参加了军事演习，旨在展示北约如何防御攻击。
More than 2,500 British and French troops took part in war games in Germany last week, exercises designed to show how NATO could defend itself from an attack.
约600名伞兵从英国皇家空军A400M运输机上实施空投，地点位于德国森内拉格，这是“犀牛泰坦”演习的一部分。
Some 600 paratroopers carried out a parachute drop from RAF A400M planes in Sennelager, Germany, as part of Exercise Rhino Titan.
英国政府的这一推动紧随欧盟之后，欧盟于去年3月敦促该集团近4.5亿公民储备三天份的物资。
The UK government’s push follows that of the European Union, which in March last year urged the bloc’s almost 450 million citizens to stockpile three days’ worth of supplies.