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LIKE most pronouncements from the European Union, today’s Action Plan on Military Mobility is likely to be met with popular indifference.
The arcane deliberations of EU institutions always seem remote from our day-to-day concerns, and those few who trouble to read the European Commission’s press release will soon drift off to the dulcet tones of commissioners vowing to “offer opportunities for more synergies between civilian and military needs” and “streamline and simplify customs formalities for military operations.”
This is unfortunate, because the action plan could represent a dangerous militarisation of Europe and increase the risk of war.
The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
