UK plans $2bn weapons upgrade as Starmer calls for ‘war readiness’ (www.aljazeera.com)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Great. More money flowing upwards into the pockets of the billionaire industrialists who own weapons manufacturing. Plus the joy of watching their media wind everyone up into hysteria about a war. If we're really lucky they'll then provoke a war and cause millions of us to die in the first blasts and then millions more in the radioactive wastelands afterwards.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

You would have thought that for 2 billion pounds it would have been human sized.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Good. It’s about time we taught the Isle Of Man a lesson.

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