For the first time in centuries, the UK’s election issue of defense and security has a big focus with the winner supporting Britain’s independent nuclear barrier.
With the country’s July common election coming up, Sir Keir Starmer, who has been rumored to be the likely successor prime minister of the United Kingdom this summer, has joined a growing chorus of voices in European countries saying the post-Cold War age is now over. The left-wing Labour leader made the statement while speaking while flanked by military servicemen and criticized the current Liberal Party administration for running the military to historic lows.
In recent years, a hard-left party under Jeremy Corbyn has led the UK Labour Party, and much of the language in Starmer’s defense announcements was written in the way that he led a” improved” Labour party. Corbyn was strongly opposed to mainstays of British defense, including the nuclear deterrent. The left-wing leader had no substantive responses when challenged on clearly anti-nuclear deterrent politicians holding top positions in his party, despite the occasionally sceptical language on the importance of the defense and nuclear weapons.
The world we live in today is, ironically, more harmful and dangerous than it has ever been since [the Second World War], and Starmer believes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine means that” the post-war era is around, and a new era of uncertainty has begun.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) May 13, 2024
The phrase “national safety is the most important issue of our day” was used by the leader of a group to speak in sharp terms for the audience:” We have the smallest military since the period of Napoleon, at a time when different countries are firmly on a war footing.”
According to Starmer, he would not be reluctant to employ nuclear weapons to defend the United Kingdom and may work with them to renew as the current era of nuclear attack submarines enter their twilight years. Additionally, Starmer claimed that he supported” a pledge of unwavering American support for Ukraine and President Zelensky” in the face of Russian rule.
Starmer’s remarks are only the most recent from Western leaders to acknowledge the onset of a new, more dangerous period in European protection, with many concerned about the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the European Union. The current prime minister of the UK, who is facing Starmer’s challenge in this election, said many of the same things only last quarter when he launched the campaign.
The problems that threaten our nation are real, and they are growing, and that Britain is in “one of the most harmful times we have always known… the most dangerous time since the Cold War,” he said.
These ideas have been percolating in the political discourse from military philosophers for months, especially since the 2023 Ukraine Spring battle using Western weapons and training failed to significantly improve the situation. Poland, which may feel more threatened by Russian aggression than any other NATO or European Union member state, issued a warning last spring that battle is brewing in Europe, and sooner than most people think.
They said:” To avert war with Russia, countries on]NATO’s ] eastern flank should choose a 3- time time horizon to plan for fight”.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) January 16, 2024
