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THE WORLD is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. Global spending on arms and defence rose in 2024, and we can see the push to militarisation continuing to accelerate in 2025. The threat of imperialist war has become the backdrop to the aim to rebuild our country.
To our shame, the British government has taken a leading role in the drive to war. Initially following the direction of Nato and US foreign policy and subsequent to President Trump’s disruption, unable to realign its own thinking, our government pursues a belligerent and reckless course of continuing to rearm Ukraine. Keir Starmer even suggests the posting of British troops in that country. Russia has already said that it would see this as an act of war.
Sorry as we may be for the Ukrainian people, they are now engaged in a war of attrition they cannot win. They are not even in a position to continue making war without US support. It is better for all concerned to recognise that and make a peace now than to pursue an interminable war that results in further destruction of life and infrastructure.
We need only remember Boris Johnson railing against “a shitty peace” in 2022 during peace negotiations and ask ourselves how three years of bloody conflict has enhanced Ukraine’s security.
Britain under the Conservatives, and now Labour, has persistently done all it can to prolong the war. We currently see Starmer posturing on the world stage. He insults and threatens Russia, but his promises to Ukraine are empty.
After years of austerity, the entire British army has shrunk to a size that would not even fill Wembley stadium. We have already taken from our stockpile of weapons to give to Ukraine, and we no longer have the industrial capacity to rearm ourselves — we would be completely dependent on others, probably on the US. We have yet to see what becomes of Starmer’s “coalition of the willing,” but we already know that the Americans are not among that number.
We are told that it is imperative to support Ukraine to win the war, or else Russia will have free rein to dominate and invade other European countries. Some voices have disputed the level of threat that Russia poses and say this is a vast exaggeration of Russia’s capabilities.
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