Space used to be such an exciting place, full of promise and wonder, where the baddies were largely confined to science fiction. Now it’s become the location of dread and destruction with a narrative of ‘defence’ – no aggression to be seen here of course – that’s all down to the baddies.
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What was all that about?
You would think that after 10 days or so this would be old news. Old news in the sense that we would have a reasonable understanding of what happened, what was agreed and what its significance was. But not a bit of it – it’s all confusion and opaqueness. Subsequently Trump has made some suggestions about what might have been agreed only for The Kremlin to respond by putting the record straight and reiterating for the umpteenth time Russia’s Special Military Operation objectives: Ukraine not to join NATO, Ukraine to be de-nazified, Crimea and the Donetsk Oblasts to recognised as Russian and for meaningful negotiations with NATO about the overall security architecture in Europe.
So what was the summit all about?
I normally don’t really know what to make of high end art – pictures or sculptures. Seems a bit beyond my intellectual pay grade and all that – unless I get an ‘in’, a clue to what it’s all about and about something that is of interest to me.
It’s not been a great couple of weeks for peace. The callousness of the Israeli genocide grinds on, reaching unconscionable depths. An attack on Iran appears to be in the balance. The US is ramping up its aggressive rhetoric against China and Ukraine choses this moment in its stalling negotiations with Russia to strike deep into the latter.
Not really!
In response to the Spring Statement delivered to the House of Commons in the UK on 25.03.25. by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, I say:
Let’s not cut welfare to fund warfare!
It’s getting more and more embarrassing.
From The Guardian 20.03.25:
‘Starmer warns Putin of severe consequences if he breaches peace deal’.
Europe (and the UK) responds by planning to re militarise, funded by a mixture of welfare cuts, tax rises and borrowing.
Say what you like about Blighty but unlike many places there’s still freedom of speech – isn’t there? OK so mainstream media struggles to speak truth to power on the key issues facing us (and threatening it) but journalists don’t get arrested for providing information that counters the government line do they? OK there was Julian, but that was at the behest of the US wasn’t it, and maybe he was the exception that proved the rule ………..
I suspect that most of us in the ‘collective west’ give little thought to ‘warfare’; what it involves, how it is materially supported, and to what ends it should be put. We may agree that ‘war’ is per se an appalling thing, destructive of society, community and humanity and be generally against it – and rightly so. However, does this blanket approbation leave the majority of us ill equipped to evaluate the actual mechanics and economic underpinnings required to wage war?
