Islam Times - UK ‘waging war on Russia’ to save itself

Islam Times - The UK is waging a psychological war against Russia to keep its own existence as the European Union (EU) and the NATO military alliance fall apart, says a political analyst.

E. Michael Jones, an editor of Culture Wars Magazine, made the remarks following a British parliamentary report that warned the UK armed forces require a significant increase in funding to counter threats posed by Russia.

“If there’s ever a preposterous statement it is this statement,” Jones said. “England has been waging war… psychological warfare against Russia for months now.”

“The point here is the British are trying to save some type of failing enterprise,” Jones argued. “They have left the European union (EU), the EU is now falling apart. NATO has no meaning anymore and so the British are trying to come up with some type of way to save their own existence.”

The Commons Defense Committee warned that the government of Prime Minister Theresa May needed to raise military spending from 2 percent of the total GDP to 3 percent if it wanted to prevent British forces from becoming “outgunned” by their Russian peers.

This means May needs to save around £20 billion ($26.5bn) a year in other sectors and increase military investment to levels that have only been seen immediately after the end of Cold War.

Besides the alleged Russian threat, the panel concluded that the budget hike was necessary to address new forms of warfare like cyber-terrorism.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia’s military spending reached £49.9 billion ($66.3bn) in 2017 versus the UK’s £35.5 billion ($47.1bn).

Jones noted that British leaders were trying to survive all these failure through the “obsolete” idea of preserving the Cold War.

“The Cold War is over. There is no point persevering this obsolete world order and this is the type of manifestation of that attempt that we are seeing right now,” he concluded.