Defending the UK given the current state of the world is sensible, but I wonder how they’ll raise the cash for this
Defending the UK
From what? Affordable living costs and welfare? Middle Eastern people being alive?
Defending the UK from the threat posed by Russia, mainly.
This is cope. It is precisely because the British people keep falling for idiotic nationalistic cope that their nation has become so catastrophically de-inudstrialised and impoverished.
Your politicians gut everything resembling a healthcare system, education system, energy infrastructure or useful industry, things that would actually allow you to create a healthy, innovative and powerful military. Then they throw money at consultants and contractors in the PMC sector and trick you into believing that you are strengthening your national security.
No, the only thing you are doing is subsidising the lifestyle of a few scammers. In exchange, you will get a small amount of overbudget and late weapons that will be shipped off to kill people in the middle East.
Your politicians gut everything resembling a healthcare system, education system, energy infrastructure or useful industry, things that would actually allow you to create a healthy, innovative and powerful military.
You seem to suggest that a powerful military is a good thing then. Maybe it is. If Ukraine’s military had been more powerful (e.g. if they had been admitted to NATO) then Russia may never have been able to take Ukrainian land, or kill so many Ukrainian civilians.
you will get a small amount of overbudget and late weapons that will be shipped off to kill people in the middle East
I don’t believe in the UK harming anybody in the Middle East. I hope the UK doesn’t do that. I don’t see plans from the UK government that involve harming people in the Middle East with the UK military.
You seem to suggest that a powerful military is a good thing then.
It is a good thing if only it is used for defensive purposes. Other than WW2, the UK has practically never seen a defensive war. However, I am using your logic here. You want a powerful military for “national security”. I am telling you that your politicians are not creating a powerful military.
I don’t believe in the UK harming anybody in the Middle East.
Then you are not keeping up with the news. The UK has provided a lot of arms to the occupation in Palestine and runs daily reconnaissance missions for them. Furthermore, the UK has been a willing partner of America in its war on terror.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were probably wrong (I don’t know enough about them really).
In any case I don’t think the UK is planning new military action in the Middle East. Starmer recently criticised Israel for its conduct in Gaza. Maybe we will see more criticism from the UK on that topic.
On the topic of Russia though, I think they do pose a threat to Europe. They’ve been waging war against Ukraine for over a decade now, and senior military figures across Europe think that Russia might try to attack another European country in a few years time.
In any case I don’t think the UK is planning new military action in the Middle East.
You’re basing this on what? And who said that the UK’s future aggression will only be limited to the middle east?
Starmer recently criticised Israel for its conduct in Gaza.
Congratulations for the mildly worded letter while still providing military parts and daily reconossaince missions I guess.
