A few days ago, the United States passed a foreign aid bill of nearly 100 billion yuan, and the situation in Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, and the Asia-Pacific region has already eased somewhat. As soon as Britain saw that the "command gun" of the United States had gone off, it quickly followed the pace.
According to a number of British media reports, British Prime Minister Sunak, when he visited Poland two days ago, announced at a press conference that he would provide Ukraine with the largest military aid in history. The £500 million aid includes 400 armoured vehicles, 60 ships and 1,600 missiles, including the Storm Shadow cruise missile. The United States, the United Kingdom and other Western countries are making every effort to arch the fire, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine may continue fiercely for a long time.
However, there is one more thing that is more noteworthy than this. Sunak said at the press conference that the UK's defense industry will be transferred to a "war system".
To put it simply, it means that a country adopts special economic, political, and military measures in order to deal with the threat of war. Under such a system, the state would prioritize military needs, increase defense spending, adjust economic policies to meet the needs of the war, and strengthen political mobilization and the cultivation of popular awareness.
Take the UK as an example, Sunak said that in the next six years, the British government will invest 75 billion pounds, or nearly 700 billion yuan, for defense spending. By 2030, the UK will spend 2.5% of GDP on defense.
In Europe, in addition to Britain, France, Poland and other countries have also taken similar measures to varying degrees, and the leaders of several countries, including Macron, have also said similar things.
In addition, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden released a report a few days ago showing that last year, the global defense budget has hit a record high, reaching 2.443 trillion US dollars. In addition, compared with the previous year, it increased by 6.8%, the largest increase since 2009.
This series of signs shows that the entire European continent is shrouded in a tense atmosphere of war preparations, and as the competition between major powers becomes more and more fierce, the global geopolitical tension has reached a new high, and the risk of conflict is increasing.
At the same time, it also reflects the fragility of the global governance system, and the mechanisms of international cooperation and dialogue, which are often inadequate at certain critical moments. In today's era of globalization, the security of any region is closely related to other regions. When tensions rise in a region and the global governance system fails to resolve the contradictions, the shadow of war is getting closer and closer.
The German philosopher Hegel once said that the only lesson that man can learn from history is that he cannot learn any lessons from history.
In the current international situation, this sentence is particularly appropriate. World War I and World War II left the whole world in ruins, and as a result, how many years have passed, and Western countries do not cherish it, and the peace that has been won with great difficulty has been achieved. It can only be said that only by overthrowing the Western hegemonic system led by the United States and building a "community with a shared future for mankind" can all countries in the world usher in a day of true peace.