2024-12-16
Mark Rutte, the much loved Prime Minister of whom the Dutch have only recently rid themselves, has been appointed to head up NATO (well, there was a vacancy and Mark was available - one can't let senior figures like Mark fend for themselves on the open market).
True to form he is now making waves across NATO with his demand to put the organisation "on a war footing" to deal with the perceived threat from those dastardly Russians. Yes, he's at least five years (probably ten) too late to build the necessary European armaments industry to a size and capability capable of matching the Russians, but like Ed Milliband, he can commandeer as much money as it takes to deal with this existential threat.
"Ukrainians are fighting against Russian swarms of drones. That’s what we need to be prepared for"
But wait - isn't Climate Change also an imminent existential threat?
Doesn't Ed Milliband have priority as the first prestigious snout in the trough? Are we about to witness the Battle of the Giants over who can expropriate our peasantly income to feed these unnecessary competing industries?
Either way, if one or both of these two get their way, we'd better start digging for victory, and/or for warmth ... and likely while fighting off swarms of hostile politicians all intent on spending our money on their enormously important projects.
After which we will be well qualified to be conscripted into the anti-Russian trenches.
