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It's the event that all the war enthusiasts flock to
Jul 10, 2024

The UK has a new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, but no one would know it because he is indistinguishable from the last prime minister. When a new party takes over, foreign policy remains intact as sure as night follows day because prime ministers do not decide foreign policy, they take orders. And Starmer has already told us he will follow his orders like a good boy.

Sir Keir Starmer, knight of the realm and card-carrying member of the Trilateral Commission, has flown to the latest NATO summit in which the “defensive alliance” is celebrating 75 years of bombing democracy into countries with valuable resources and governments we don’t like.

The NATO summit, which is affectionately known as Bombicon to weirdos who dress up as their favourite war criminals, is a brilliant opportunity for Starmer to show the world he has no interest in peace. It seems those people who’ve speculated that Sunak called an early election because he didn’t want to be a wartime prime minister were correct.

The Bombicon trip has been very stage-managed with Starmer taking questions from reporters on the plane while his team stood behind his seat. Newspapers reported everything he said, word for word, because newspapers just fucking love war. The whole thing is designed to give the impression this is a focused warmonger and the death machine is safe in his hands. Is anyone feeling reassured?

For some reason, Starmer felt the need to take his wife to Bombicon, but sadly, she did not dress up as Henry Kissinger. Nevertheless, the media lapped it up, referring to her as Lady Vic and taking lots of pictures of her waving. I think they’re trying to make her a thing. Everyone finds Starmer odious, but maybe they’ll warm to his wife who at least seems camera friendly. They’re gonna try to make her into the next Michelle Obama.

Starmer is telling the British people he doesn’t have money for anything, but he is telling Bombicon his pledge to increase NATO spending to 2.5% of the national budget is “cast iron”. Thankfully, his fiscal rules don’t allow spending on anything other than war. This is a relief because I was worried the CEO of an arms manufacturer might have to cancel his next yacht purchase.

Starmer’s first big spending announcement could easily have been about feeding hungry kids or housing the homeless or fixing the NHS. Those things count as defence because you would be defending people from poverty and ill health. Instead, Starmer would defend the UK from countries who aren’t going to invade the UK.

The man who can’t afford to lift the two-child welfare cap somehow can afford to raise the bombs budget. It’s always worth emphasising that when we spend money on bombs, those bombs inevitably blow foreign children to pieces. Don’t worry though, when the war propaganda starts, there is a 75% chance you will hate everyone who says: “I told you so”. This is how it’s always been.

It does not matter how ludicrous the war propaganda is, all that matters is it’s unpatriotic to challenge it because our leaders would never lie about the latest war. It’s only the past wars that we ever get lied to about. When it comes to the latest war, our leaders are always coherent and consistent.

For example, Starmer was furious with Putin for bombing a hospital in Kyiv because it’s only bad when you bomb one hospital with Russian weapons, and not say, 37 hospitals with western weapons. Someone tell Putin that if he buys our bombs, he can blow up as many hospitals as he likes. This makes more sense than saying that bombing any hospital is bad.

Starmer’s pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5% might be “cast iron”, but this isn’t good enough for Philip Ingram MBE, a former colonel in British military intelligence. The proud Member of the Order of the British Empire has demanded that our war spending increase immediately because the “threat is now”. Yes, Philip, the Russians who’ve been pushed to the limit in Ukraine for two and a half years are going to arrive on British shores any minute. Good job the nation’s kids aren’t hungry, right now, they can wait a few years for food. Let’s keep our focus on defence reviews that don’t defend us.

Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard has launched a review into defence spending, looking at China, which NATO is currently baiting into a proxy war, and instability in the Middle East, which is a result of our genocide. And of course, he wants more brinksmanship with Russia.

Pollard told Times Radio without any evidence: “if we don't support Ukraine and if they don't win, Russia won't stop there.” The Ukrainians being thrown into a meat grinder are thrilled we won’t entertain the idea of a peace deal. Who gives a crap about peace when men can die for the profits of arms manufacturers?

The opposition is, of course, pretending Starmer is not pro-war enough, which is the worst possible angle to attack him from. Someone in the shadow cabinet called James Cartlidge accused Starmer of creating “massive uncertainty”, but he couldn’t articulate why. As a NATO country with a nuclear deterrent, there is zero chance of anyone invading the UK so additional spending is either unnecessary or not defensive. This will only fuel speculation that NATO is going to take the fight to Russia or China. Yippee!

Starmer has not only pledged to increase his country’s defence spending, he has urged other NATO leaders to do the same. He has insisted “a step up in defence spending can safeguard the future of the alliance.”

A record 23 of 32 members are now hitting their defence spending targets, but this ironically comes at a time when Trump is flirting with the idea of leaving NATO if he wins in November. Let’s be real though, there is not a cat in Hell’s chance of Trump doing that. He is going to do what the military industrial complex says, just like every other leader.

As everyone knows, the first duty of any leader is to bomb the citizens of other countries, no matter how much it hurts their own citizens. If you care about defence, you don’t defend your people from poverty, ill health, bad bosses, or the climate crisis. No, you label other countries “enemies” and provoke fights with them, knowing you won’t be the one doing the fighting. This is how patriotism works.

Starmer isn’t going to protect the public from actual threats, but at least he has been pandering to the mob. He has explained officials will keep him updated on the England score in their next kickball match on the centre court at Wimbledon. This will be necessary because his phone is going to be taken at Bombicon to stop him playing Subway Surfers while Biden struggles to get his words out. This meeting could get painful, unless Blinken reads the president’s script for him.

Starmer might be selling the public out to the military industrial complex, but at least he’s pretending to like the kickball team - and if England loses to their next opponent, he might even declare war on them. He’s that patriotic. Starmer is so patriotic that he gave Garry Southgate advice to “win” which is about as detailed as his plan to grow the economy. How are you going to grow the economy, Keir? With growth. How are you going to make people’s lives better? With more bombs. How are you any different from the previous guy? I’m not.