https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-nuclear-bomber-fleet-brings-us-all-closer-brink
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with US President Donald Trump before the start of a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the Nato Summit at the Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025KEIR STARMER’S decision to buy 12 nuclear-capable F35A warplanes from the United States leaves us all less safe.
The decision stinks on every level.
Those who argue British rearmament will revive our gutted manufacturing sector instead see the Prime Minister splurging enormous sums — each plane comes with a price tag of $80-100 million — on US-built weaponry.
Hardly surprising, since a key motivation for Starmer is to appease a belligerent White House, whose demand that we ramp up “defence” spending serves the war profiteers of its bloated military-industrial complex. F35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin is one of the death-merchants that has done very nicely out of a world at war, with sales up 5 per cent last year to $71 billion.
Much worse still is the shift in nuclear policy this indicates. It lowers the threshold for use of a nuclear weapon in conflict, which has been taboo ever since the only country ever to do so — the United States — killed a quarter of a million people by dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this August.
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