UK authorities plans main defence reforms at the price of welfare programmes, drawing public anger.
Below the slogan “welfare not warfare”, protesters have come out in power in London, objecting to the British authorities’s plans to extend navy spending whereas chopping again on social assist.
Like its European allies in NATO, the UK is below strain from the USA to take duty for its personal safety in mild of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
However the European public – most of whom are dealing with a cost-of-living disaster – could properly object as a lot because the British.
So can NATO allies construct a defence power sturdy sufficient to counter any threats from Russia with out US assist?
And the way will European leaders deal with attainable public discontent?
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam
Friends:
Paul Beaver – defence analyst
Aaron Gasch Burnett – senior fellow on the Democratic Technique Initiative, a political suppose tank
Jeremy Corbyn – impartial member of the UK Parliament
