Russia could hit NATO by 2030, and Britain is sleepwalking into it with a late, underfunded Defence Investment Plan that made a defense secretary quit rather than sign off on it. Hitting 3% of GDP by 2030 is the bare minimum, and every year of delay hands Moscow another invitation. The money is there if welfare is cut, because a ballooning benefits bill cannot come before keeping the country alive.
Pouring another 15 billion pounds into weapons, including 64 billion on nuclear bombs, while gutting transport and climate budgets is a recipe for catastrophe, not safety. Arming and escalating has prolonged the bloodshed in Ukraine and pushed nuclear confrontation closer, and more missiles will not reverse that. Military spending is jobs-poor, so the real security investment is health care, wages and peace talks.
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