Anyone paying the slightest attention to the news this week could be convinced that the UK is preparing for a direct and imminent war with Russia. Retired generals are telling the public to get “psychologically prepared” for conflict; Labour Party thought leaders are suggesting that dissidents and Russia sympathizers be “locked up;” and former Brexit Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is openly telling British men and women that they “may have to die” – right after calling the English a “mongrel race”