Listening to a European Parliament member on the World Service say we need to prepare for war if we want peace. Apparently most of the aid money going to the Ukraine from Europe is used to buy weaponry made outside of the European Union. Surely, he says, we should manufacture it here.
Arming oneself to fight for peace might seem counter-intuitive as that is what countries have done who have then happily gone to war – sometimes for a century. WW2 is seen by many as the most just war ever fought and the lesson was when you see a country arming – you arm too. Mainland Europe went through hell in WW2 and they have no appetite for Russia of anyone else to put them through anything like that again.
But let’s be honest. It isn’t about arming. We have never stopped research into modern weapons. It is about having more weapons than we have as we have always been prepared for a war.
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