Warfare over Welfare: Starmer’s Phoney War

Eisenhower’s Warning: How Your Money Funds Their Wars

Starmer says ‘it’s Securing Britain’s Future’, but it’s their profits they’re doing it for…

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961

That was 1961. A Republican president. A five-star general. A man who’d seen war up close and understood its true cost. He tried to warn us about what was coming: a cancer that would eat democracy from within, a union of arms manufacturers, politicians, and profiteers that would push for perpetual war to feed its endless expansion, a merger of corporate power and political ambition that would wage war not to win peace, but to win contracts.

His words went unheeded. The cancer metastasised. And now it’s killing us, one defence contract at a time, one pensioner’s heating bill at a time, one child’s missed meal at a time.

What Eisenhower feared most has become our daily reality: a nation that feeds its weapons manufacturers while starving its own people.

Your Money, Their Wars

Today, Britain pledges £15 billion a year in rearmament, plus £3.5 billion to Ukraine every year, and I quote “For however long they need it!”, on top of existing defence budgets that already drain public coffers. Where does this money come from? Public money. Your money. Money that should be building the future, not funding corporate profits.

While pensioners freeze in their homes because winter fuel allowances have been cut, while young people can’t afford housing, while benefit claimants are demonised and starved, £15 billion of public money flows into the pockets of defence contractors and arms manufacturers.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s sobering analysis lays bare the truth that many families already feel in their bones: living standards for all UK households are set to fall by 2030, with the poorest experiencing a decline twice as severe as others. The average family will be £1,400 worse off; the lowest income families will lose £900 annually—a catastrophic 6% of their already stretched disposable income.

This isn’t about Ukraine. This isn’t about deterrence. This isn’t about keeping Britain safe.

This is about ensuring the arms industry never sees a quiet year again.

The Racket Exposed

Lockheed Martin isn’t worried about NHS waiting times. BAE Systems won’t build you a council house. Raytheon doesn’t care if your child’s school has mould on the walls and RAAC in the ceilings. Their mission is to convert public money into private profit, and war is their most reliable investment. They have one concern: maximising profit from human misery.

And they’ve bought themselves a government to guarantee it. They don’t just influence government, they own it. Campaign contributions, revolving door jobs, lobbying contracts. Your elected representatives aren’t working for you; they’re working for their next payday from the arms industry. Democracy has been auctioned off to the highest bidder, and weapons manufacturers always win the bidding war.

Here’s the blood money equation they’re hiding from you: Every single Trident missile costs £17 million, that’s 340 nurses who could save lives instead of ending them. Every F-35 fighter jet costs £100 million, 200 council houses that could shelter families instead of dropping bombs on strangers. Every submarine costs £1.3 billion, enough to eliminate every NHS waiting list in Britain by having a social care funded that works and still have change left over.

But here’s the real obscenity: Every disabled person stripped of benefits, every pensioner shivering in the dark, every third child living in poverty, they’re all paying for this warfare-for-welfare corruption. Their suffering funds Lockheed Martin’s profits. Their desperation pays for BAE Systems’ bonuses. Their hunger feeds Raytheon’s shareholders.

They’re not just wasting public money, they’re conducting a controlled demolition of British society, stealing food from children’s mouths to build missiles that will never be fired, robbing heat from pensioners’ homes to fund submarines that will never see combat. And they have the audacity to call this theft “national security.” It’s not security, it’s sanctioned robbery with a Union Jack wrapped around it.

And here’s the ultimate betrayal: Starmer can’t even protect our borders. While he pisses away billions preparing for imaginary wars, 1,195 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats just this weekend. Every week, the equivalent of several Russian regiments enters Britain undetected.

Ask yourself the obvious question: How many undocumented migrants, lost in the system and unaccounted for, could be saboteurs or sleepers? And let’s not pretend they don’t exist; they absolutely do. Let’s not pretend that some of these young men seeking “a better life” aren’t the same young men who, in their former lives, were defending their homes from Western invaders in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.

You don’t need to be paranoid to see the risk, you just need basic strategic thinking. If you were Putin planning asymmetric warfare, would you bother with expensive intercontinental missiles when Starmer’s incompetence gives you free passage to seed enemy territory with assets? Why pay for a Trojan Horse when the enemy leaves the gates wide open?

We’re haemorrhaging another £15 billion on weapons to fight phantom enemies abroad while rolling out the red carpet for real threats at home. It’s not defence, it’s strategic suicide disguised as national security. ‘Theatre of the Absurd’, funded by your money, performed by clowns who wouldn’t recognise real danger if it sailed across the Channel in broad daylight.

It’s also an argument why we should have a comprehensive network of overseas processing centres and safe routes.

What Real Security Actually Looks Like

Let’s stop confusing militarism with security…

Real security doesn’t come from fleets of warships or walls of missiles, it comes from strong, resilient communities. It’s the ability to heat your home, feed your children, and walk safely down the street. It’s decent work, reliable healthcare, clean water, functioning schools, and affordable housing. Security is knowing tomorrow won’t be worse than today.

Yet our leaders tell us we must spend an extra £13 billion to “defend” ourselves, when the real threat to British families is the cost of living, not a Russian invasion.

Let’s deal in facts. During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact peaked at 8 nations, not 31, forming a military bloc led by the Soviet Union. It never extended to China, which was not a member. At the time, NATO had 16 members. Today, NATO has expanded to 32 countries, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the very borders of Russia. Meanwhile, Russia stands alone with no formal allies, no military bloc, and a conventional force dwarfed in both budget and reach.

NATO now outspends Russia militarily by more than 15 to 1. Russia’s entire defence budget in 2023 was estimated at around $109 billion. NATO’s, by contrast, exceeds $1.3 trillion.

So who is threatening whom?

We are told to fear a solitary Russia, an ageing petro-state facing demographic collapse, while NATO has crept ever eastward. If Russia had expanded a military alliance to Canada’s border, would Washington shrug it off? Of course not. Yet we are expected to believe that Moscow is the irrational actor.

Let’s be honest: this isn’t about deterring Russian aggression. It’s about justifying NATO’s expansion and the billions in arms contracts that follow. Expansion creates threat. Threat creates spending. Spending creates profits. Round and round it goes.

If the UK were truly interested in defence, we’d be investing in actual protective systems, not manufacturing threats to justify aggressive postures. We would be defending what matters: our communities, our public services, our way of life.

Even Donald Trump, for all his flaws, grasped this basic truth: real defence means missile shields, not forever wars. His “Iron Dome for America” initiative echoed Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, a focus on intercepting attacks, not provoking them. You don’t have to like Trump to see the point: defensive technology is less dangerous, and arguably more useful, than endless stockpiles of offensive weapons.

The Perfect Scam

Here’s how the scam works: Create tensions. Manufacture threats. Demand “security.” Spend billions on weapons. Those weapons require maintenance, upgrades, replacements. The cycle never ends. The profits never stop.

Ukraine was a gift to these parasites. Not because they care about Ukrainian democracy, but because war is their business model. Every day the conflict continues, every escalation that demands more weapons, every expansion of NATO, it’s all public money in their pockets.

And you’re the one paying for it.

Who Wins, Who Loses

The Winners:

• Defence contractors recording record profits

• Arms manufacturers with guaranteed government contracts

• Politicians who get campaign contributions and revolving door jobs

• Shareholders of weapons companies watching their portfolios soar

The Losers:

• Pensioners told there’s no money for heating allowances

• Young people facing a future of permanent austerity

• Every third child in a family

• Benefit claimants having support slashed to fund military spending

• NHS patients bed blocked because of an underfunded social care system while billions go to bombs

• Students facing debt while money pours into weapons research

• People shoved into mortgages, debt slaves to banks, because there is no social housing choice

Eisenhower’s Nightmare Realised

This is exactly what Eisenhower warned about: a military-industrial complex that captures government, manufactures consent for war, and profits from permanent conflict while ordinary people pay the price.

The general who defeated fascism understood something today’s politicians refuse to acknowledge: when weapons manufacturers control policy, peace becomes the enemy of profit.

The Great Betrayal…

Our government has been captured. Not by foreign powers, but by domestic corporations that feed on conflict and chaos. They’ve convinced politicians that security comes from the barrel of a gun rather than the strength of communities.

While you struggle with rising costs, they’re getting rich off your struggles. While your public services crumble, their private profits soar. While your future gets mortgaged to permanent war, their shareholders celebrate record returns.

Eisenhower presented the American people with a choice in 1961: guard against the military-industrial complex or watch it devour democracy. They failed to listen. They failed to act. They let the cancer grow until it consumed everything. That doesn’t mean we have to…

It’s not too late. Not yet…

Every vote for politicians who prioritise defence spending over domestic needs is a vote for this system. Every acceptance of “austerity” while billions flow to arms dealers is complicity in your own impoverishment.

They’re stealing your future to fund their wars. They’re robbing your children to enrich their shareholders. They’re sacrificing your wellbeing for their profit margins.

Fighting back means demanding to know, as Tony Benn stated, “Why there’s always money for war but not for people’s needs”. Ask why defence contractors get guaranteed profits while pensioners get cuts. Question why weapons research gets billions while medical research gets scraps.

Vote for politicians who serve people, not arms manufacturers. Support candidates who choose schools over submarines, hospitals over helicopters, homes over howitzers.

The military-industrial complex depends on your ignorance, your apathy, your acceptance of their lies about “security” and “deterrence.”

Stop giving them what they want.

Your money. Your government. Your choice.

Choose wisely. Before it’s too late.