Who cares about Armageddon if it's making money!

 

A piece in the Express brings to mind the the Whitfield and Strong song recorded in 1970 by The Temptations and Edwin Star, War, What Is It Good For?

The response, as SOYMB has pointed out on numerous occasions, is profit!

‘A global ramp-up in military spending amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza helped push weapons manufacturer BAE Systems make a record profit of just over £3 billion last year.

Europe's largest defence contractor, and the biggest in Britain, said earnings surged by one-sixth compared to 2024, buoyed by "growing threats" to security around the world.

BAE Systems makes weapons ranging across missiles and artillery systems, tanks, planes and warships.

It also makes cybersecurity products and advanced electronics, including for countries' space agencies, and it is the biggest military contractor to the UK Government.

The company said it secured £33.7 billion of orders last year, taking its backlog to a new record high, amid more demand for its combat vehicles, and improvements to fighter jets and submarine technology.

"Today, nations are facing increasingly varied and complex threats to security," the company said...’https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2017346/uk-weapons-company-profit-BAE

Another report in the same media notes the launching of a nuclear submarine built by that company at a cost of one point six billion pounds. Apparently, get out your union flags and wave them, it will enable the Royal Navy to 'project power across the globe.' 

Flag wavers are more likely to be of the Colonel Blimp type. He was a 1930's cartoon character who was pompous and jingoistic. The days when Britain's navy ruled the waves are long gone.' By the 18th century, Britain had established a naval hegemony that was to remain unshaken until the 1920s.' History Extra 

And long gone too is Britain's empire. Why does the UK ruling class still behave as if it was a significant power still in the world? The amount spent on the submarine is almost equivalent to the amount saved by the government in cancelling pensioners winter fuel allowance.

An increase, projected, in the the UK defence budget to 2.5 per cent would cost an estimated five billion pounds plus.

The priorities of capitalism are not focused on its majority class. The time is long past to send armaments of all kinds to the scrap heap along with capitalism.