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Off To War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review – OpEd

Eurasia Review Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvious distraction than preparing for war against a phantom enemy.

That is exactly where the government of Sir Keir Starmer finds itself. Despite a...
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch scrutinises Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2026-28, calling it “just an announcement” as “a lot of the things they’ve announced in this strategic defence review require money”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on...

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