On the bunker drill, the former minister said that all secretaries of state - not just defence - have a desk and a bed ready for them in a bunker.
This is not so they are able to survive a nuclear attack “for re-populating our islands after the apocalypse” but “because their departments are as integral to the war effort as the MoD”.
Because it’s precisely these politicians who should be repopulating after a potential apocalypse /s
Alternate title: “Former military guy can only think about conflict and makes war mongering comments to scare politicians and population”
If you desire peace, prepare for war.
The US has recently proven itself an unreliable ally and can no longer be depended upon. I don’t want any armed conflict but now is the time to at least make sure you have the plans and resources in place to prepare for future conflicts. Hopefully they will not eventuate but it seems unwise to bet too much on that.
If you desire peace, prepare for war.
This is propaganda twisted logic at its finest. If you want peace you prepare peace you do not fucking prepare war!
Well, it’s been a quote for about 1500 years and I think the point still stands today.
Eh, there are plenty of old quotes that don’t hold up, and the last 1500 years haven’t really been that peaceful. I think it’s fair to be critical of a philosophy that’s been around that long and has really just been better at marketing increased military spending than actually successful at building real peace.
if the last 1500 years teach you something is that when someone is preparing for war they do not want peace.
It would be nice if politicians could understand the cost of war at a soldier’s level. Politicians should feel a war; not just sit in their protected and lavish war room barking orders and treating lives as meaningless numbers.
Exactly, those who make the decisions to send soldiers to war should be sent to fight themselves, if not gun in hand at least as front line commanders or something so they feel the same danger and see the same horrors as the human fodder they so happily throw at their “enemies”
U need to stop thinking of politicians as people its better to think of them as representatives for a specific interest group (ur vote, everyone else’s vote, and corruption) they make no decisions they simply choose which decision makes the majority of who they represent the happiest.
So you are saying we should have a people’s representation lobby group and bribe them to do our interests. It does make sense in a negotiation sense, even though it sounds very annoying.
That’s what democracy is supposed to be.
Not really, but i guess that’s the difference between ideals and reality. So, who is founding this group?
In the ideal the politicians represent the people. I’m reality it seems they represent whatever gets them money/power.
So, who is founding this group?
That’s the good part only the wealthy corporations can afford such things.
Budget season again I see
OP comments are on point.
