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IF YOU want an illustration of how the arms industry helps push Britain’s foreign policy towards confrontation, you could look at some documents I got from the Foreign Office about the Aukus pact.
They show that Foreign Office ministers are really keen on hanging out with bomb- and missile-makers and asking them what they need from our foreign policy.
Aukus is a very big deal in political circles which gets much less press than it deserves. Aukus is the Australian-UK-US deal signed in 2021 to increase military spending by the three nations to “deter” China from getting too big for its boots.
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