Wildfires are raging across Europe. Heatwaves are killing tens of thousands. The US, supported by many European governments, manages the Palestinian genocide with Israel as it wages an unjustifiable war on Iran and tightens its stranglehold on Cuba. Energy and food prices surge around the world, while US officials openly talk about war crimes and fantasize about dismantling the International Criminal Court.1
European leaders are not strategizing on how to insulate their constituents from reckless US behaviour. Instead, they are in the grip of a new wave of militarism, plotting to slash social spending to make the US happy. NATO’s spending target is being used to reorder Europe’s public finances: military spending is exempted from fiscal constraints while social investment and climate programmes are on the chopping block. Britain is leading the charge.
