Not even Ukraine wants to be in NATO anymore, so why should anywhere else? De facto American withdrawal means that it has effectively ceased to exist. But membership has always negated the concept of "fighting for your country". You could be fighting for practically anywhere. Explain to me how Russia would invade Britain, an aspiration that in any case it has never expressed. Heaven forfend that Rich Knighton might have his eye on future employment by the arms companies that funded the Royal United Services Institute.
Eagle-eyed viewers of Knighton's RUSI lecture will have noticed that his only medals were Jubilee ones, the Coronation one, and the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, while there were no wings among his braids. In 37 years, his only combat tour has been as an engineering support officer in Italy during the Kosovo War. To have risen to his present eminence, appointed in the end by Keir Starmer of all Prime Ministers, he is obviously a spook. Someone has to be, but it is a different matter to make public pronouncements on policy. Like Blaise Metreweli, who elected Knighton? And as the RAF veteran Tony Benn would have put it to either of them, "How can we get rid of you?"
“ as the RAF veteran Tony Benn would have put it to either of them, "How can we get rid of you?"”
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about? Chiefs of Staff have never been “elected” (nor are they in any other democratic country) and for good reason.
Benn’s famous five tests were aimed at describing the difference between the EU’s unaccountable system of government-where all laws are made in secret by the unelected Commission and merely rubber stamped by the Parliament-and the glorious British system where only the elected Parliament can make legislation, as the executive that initiates British legislation (or allows time for Private Members Bills) must first command a majority in the elected House in order to be the executive.
And the likes of Knighton should therefore stay out of politics.
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