Opposing War Doesn’t Make You A Kremlin Mouthpiece, Mr Starmer
It was the French Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre that said, “When the rich wage war it is the poor who die”, and Vladimir Putin, apparently worth some $200 billion, has unleashed a taster of his $150 billion annual military budget on the second poorest country in Europe. I’m no expert on geopolitical warfare, but thankfully we do have thousands of former epidemiologists that seemed to have hastily retrained as military experts to keep us informed of the latest developments. You probably know my thoughts on war. There are no winners. Most conflicts begin and end with words. Military involvement should only be an act of self-defence, when we have exhausted every possibility of constructive dialogue. But I’ll tell you what I find absolutely staggering… The right, and much of the centre, seem to confuse a morally principled opposition to war as some sort of support for the Putin regime. The centrists are particularly familiar with this ridiculously offensive conflation. You know, the one whe