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Subject: War, What Is It Good For?
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=E2=80=9CA wise Prime Minister would stop asking only what Britain can give=
Ukraine and start asking, urgently, what Ukraine can teach Britain.=E2=80=
=9D - Naomi Smith
There is a version of this week=E2=80=99s defence announcement that treats =
spending as the whole story. More money, more kit, more factories, more job=
s. All of it welcome, all of it long overdue, but none of it sufficient for=
the scale of the challenge facing Britain.
Andy Burnham walked into Number 10 with a defence investment plan already o=
n the table and a hole in the middle of it. Money can be found and gaps can=
be closed, but if the new Prime Minister thinks the job is simply to write=
the cheque Starmer couldn=E2=80=99t, he will have missed the strategic shi=
ft happening around us. The question is not how much we spend but who we st=
and with, and whether we finally understand the war we are already in...
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12px;">"We are already at war, in the grey and the dark. Our security is E=
uropean or it is nothing."</h3><table class=3D"post-meta" role=3D"presentat=
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k’s defence announcement that treats spending as the whole story. Mor=
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