War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

What a wild and bleak headline

No good is going to come from investing €2bn in munitions factories - companies are not renowned for wanting to go out of business

“Nammo”? JFC…

Yeah, good of the Guardian to run an advertorial for them

Lol had literally C&Pd that link and was thinking of the best thread to put it in.

Maybe the most 2023 headline possible.

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Imagine the world wed have if people had actually paid attention to Eisenhower’s whole speech instead of just going “Military Industrial Complex you say? That sounds like a good idea”

Yeah, i went through the rolling descent, non uk politics, Russian invasion, Guardian before settling on creating one

https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538

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Nothing to add but thread title is making me wanna watch Seinfeld.

god, war is awful isn’t it

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Good for shareholders

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The UK is one of only 20 countries which recruits 16 year olds into its armed forces - https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/joint-committees/human-rights/Briefing_from_Forces_Watch_age_of_recruitment.pdf

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_military:

Research in the United Kingdom has found that the enlistment and training of adolescent children, even when they are not sent to war, is often accompanied by a higher risk of suicide,[12][13] stress-related mental disorders,[14][15] alcohol abuse,[16][17] and violent behavior.[18][19][20]