It’s intersting that the media is abuzz with panic about the mercenary army.
It’s not the mercenary army that’s sending its bomber jets to the edges of UK air space. Nor do they have nuclear submarines lurking off the northern Scottish coast, which only our French allies can detect because we scrapped our own recognisance aircraft.
Yes, the mercenary army has its sympathisers capable of committing attrocities as we have seen, but they pose no existential threat.
Is David Cameron’s rushed procurement of military hardware really about mercenary armies armed with Toyota pick-ups and cannon-fodder? Or is it about a nuclear power flexing its muscles?
Russia tested the waters in Ukraine. Nobody did anything.
They are now in Syria, bombing rebels armed by the US and its allies. Nobody did anything.
Could it be that, behind closed doors, the powers that be are just a little alarmed by this bold new resurgent Russia?
Last modified: 21 September 2024
