Increased Defence Spending Madness

'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed': D Eisenhower

Russia has always been a bogeyman, China, North Korea and Iran have been recently added because the West need a bogeyman or two to keep us safe from and Russia invading Ukraine was manna from Heaven for people who have an interest in military spending and the media has been full of those these last few days as the Defence Spending Review offer up how we must be spending much more on defence and the Orange Taco's NATO ambassador is trying to talk us up to spending at least 5% of national income.
There was some Defence Minister loon on TV last night saying we will be at war with Russia within 10 years and we need to spend big NOW but he never went on to say what areas should be cut to pay for it.
More money on bombs and less for people who already can't afford to heat their homes or feed their families isn't a very good slogan nor is why give the unemployed and disabled money to feed themselves when we can buy lots of ammunition but that is what they are saying because if your country is standing there cross legged and looking for a pot, spending more in one area means spending less in another.
Spending money on weapons to bring death and destruction somewhere or use the money saved for something helpful to mankind instead, we already spend £44.6 billion on defence which doesn't include the £133 billion spent on maintaining our Nuclear Weapons which is less money for schools, health, police, housing, infrastructure, the elderly and disabled.
If the Government decide they can afford to spend billions more on rockets, nuclear submarines and tanks and spend less on building schools, equipping hospitals, hiring police officers or building houses then they should be deciding which is more important. Spoiler alert: It should never, ever be the war equipment.