Originally Posted by
MPN11
Vlad the Mad has been waving his Red Flags vigorously for ages … or did nobody think he was serious?
Nobody wanted to believe it is probably closer to the truth.
Because it would also force some very hard choices on whichever government had to make them. With the tax burden at record levels, in order to pay for the extra defence budget, something has to give - remember how popular that pretend austerity was?
The glib answer is to chin off foreign aid, but that has some very real consequences and doesn't fit with the newly announced G7 equivalent to Belt and Road. Welfare budget? Who's going to tell the pensioners? Transform the National Religion? Good luck with that.
No easy options.