Would you be prepared to serve our country?

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With concerns mounting over a potential conflict with Russia, if you were of an age to be called up, would you be prepared to serve our country - many young people say they would refuse - also what do you think about that situation?

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00:00Oh now, that is a hard question, would I be prepared to save my country?

00:05I'd like to say yes, but I think if push came to shove, I'd probably be a bit of a coward.

00:13In terms of where I personally stand, it's a difficult one to call.

00:17I think that I would like to be involved in some way if I could help, even if it wasn't

00:21like on the front line because of my age, etc.

00:25You've got pride in your country, but then, especially in recent years, you think, well

00:29what has my government and my country done for me, and would I be willing, in a worst

00:33case scenario, to lay down my life for people who perhaps haven't looked after us as citizens

00:40of the United Kingdom perhaps as well as you would have thought.

00:42I think that sending people to die in any war is tragic.

00:46The Ukrainians, of course, suffered a miserable loss of life, but also the Russian families,

00:52you know, just the ordinary families who were conscripted to force them to go and fight.

00:57I'm sure they'd all rather be at home and living in peace.

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