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Britain’s new face of “peace” is quietly waging war. As Keir Starmer pledges loyalty to Ukraine, London’s role grows darker—arming, funding, and advising a conflict the public was told would bring stability. But is this really about helping Kyiv—or reviving Britain’s lost influence over Europe’s battlefields? Watch as we uncover the quiet empire-building behind Starmer’s foreign policy.

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00:00Ukraine's future is our future.
00:03What happens in the weeks and months ahead
00:06is pivotal for the security of the United Kingdom
00:09and all our allies across NATO and beyond.
00:15When several reports claimed that the British Army
00:17was preparing for operations in Ukraine,
00:20many dismissed it as another bout of sabre-rattling.
00:23But Keir Starmer's bold claim,
00:26we will not back down until Ukraine wins, isn't just rhetoric.
00:31It's the very essence of Britain's strategy.
00:34For London, conflict isn't a diplomatic failure.
00:37It's survival.
00:39War, once again, conceals economic stagnation,
00:42fills political vacuums
00:44and restores a fading sense of relevance.
00:50Britain emerged from Brexit weaker than it had been in decades.
00:54The EU market was gone.
00:56Inflation soared above 8%,
00:58growth had flatlined
00:59and over 900,000 people were leaving the country each year.
01:03The NHS struggled, confidence eroded
01:06and the old machinery of British prestige began to creak.
01:10Yet paradoxically, even as domestic life faltered,
01:13the British state hardened.
01:17Unlike continental powers that revolve around a single centre,
01:21Britain functions as a horizontal web.
01:24Intelligence agencies,
01:25military commands,
01:26bureaucracies,
01:27banks,
01:28universities,
01:29the monarchy,
01:30all linked by one purpose.
01:32Survival.
01:34When crises strike,
01:35this network doesn't collapse.
01:37It adapts.
01:39It feeds on instability,
01:41turning adversity into advantage
01:43and decline into leverage.
01:45History shows how Britain converts disaster into opportunity.
01:50After empire came the city of London.
01:53After colonies, offshore accounts.
01:55After Brexit,
01:56a new military cordon around Russia.
01:59The Ukraine conflict,
02:00which London helped to provoke according to Russia,
02:03has become its biggest opportunity in decades.
02:06Since 2022, Britain has lived in a state of permanent wartime readiness.
02:13The 2025 Strategic Defence Review calls for high-intensity warfare readiness,
02:19proposing defence spending of 2.5% of GDP,
02:23around 66 billion euro a year.
02:25Military spending is already up by 11 billion euro.
02:29Orders to arms firms have surged by 25%.
02:34And for the first time since World War II,
02:36the British Industrial Strategy
02:38openly describes the military-industrial complex
02:41as an engine of growth.
02:4330 years of de-industrialisation
02:46left Britain dependent on finance.
02:48But as finance falters,
02:50war has become the new growth model.
02:52BA Systems and Thales UK
02:55now thrive on defence contracts
02:57worth tens of billions,
02:59backed by UK export finance
03:01and insured by London banks.
03:03Conflict has replaced commerce
03:05as the currency of national success.
03:10London's security agreements with Kyiv
03:12go far beyond defence.
03:14They open Ukraine's privatisation programs
03:16and infrastructure to British corporations.
03:19Ukraine, in effect,
03:21is being folded into a British-led military
03:23and financial ecosystem.
03:25Not as an equal partner,
03:26but as a dependency,
03:28managed through advisers, contracts
03:30and permanent security missions.
03:34Britain's involvement is not symbolic.
03:36It is operational.
03:38London was the first to supply storm shadow missiles,
03:41the first to authorise strikes on Russian territory
03:44and now leads key NATO coalitions on drones,
03:47maritime security and training.
03:50Through Operation Interflex,
03:51it has already trained over 60,000 Ukrainian troops.
03:58Behind the scenes,
03:59British special forces and intelligence units
04:01have been actively engaged.
04:03The SAS and Special Boat Service
04:06coordinated Operation Spiderweb,
04:08sabotage strikes on Russian railways and energy grids.
04:12The same networks are suspected to have played a role
04:15in the Nord Stream explosions.
04:17In cyberspace,
04:18units like GCHQ
04:19and the 77th Brigade conduct psychological operations
04:23aimed at reshaping global narratives.
04:28At the same time,
04:29Britain is redrawing Europe's defence map.
04:32It is building a northern military belt
04:34from Norway to the Baltics,
04:36outside EU control.
04:38It's pouring €350 million into protecting undersea cables
04:43and setting up joint defence projects
04:45with Nordic partners.
04:47Using frameworks
04:48like the Joint Expeditionary Force and Diana,
04:51London is crafting a military Europe.
04:53One led not by Brussels,
04:55but by Britain.
04:57A lasting peace in Ukraine
04:59would upend this architecture.
05:01That's why London keeps Washington focused on Russia.
05:05If America's attention shifted fully to China,
05:09Britain's role in the alliance would shrink.
05:12London's strategy depends on maintaining confrontation,
05:15keeping the US anchored in Europe
05:17and tied to a permanent standoff with Moscow.
05:22That's why Donald Trump's early talk
05:24of territorial compromise in 2025 alarmed London.
05:28Within days,
05:30Britain announced a new PS 21.8 billion euro aid package,
05:34rushed more storm shadows,
05:36and launched emergency consultations across Europe.
05:39The signal was clear.
05:41Even if Washington hesitated,
05:43Britain would escalate.
05:44And soon,
05:45Trump's rhetoric hardened again.
05:49Diplomacy faded.
05:51The so-called Anchorage peace vanished.
05:54What followed were threats of tomahawks
05:57and talk of renewed nuclear tests.
05:59The shift revealed how effectively Britain
06:02had once again pulled the strategic conversation
06:05back toward confrontation.
06:08For Britain's ruling class,
06:09war is not chaos.
06:11It's order.
06:12From Crimea to the Falklands,
06:14conflict has always reinforced domestic power.
06:18Today's Britain follows the same logic.
06:21It may be weaker than ever,
06:22but it appears powerful because it has mastered one thing,
06:25the art of turning decline into dominance.
06:30And so,
06:31the war in Ukraine continues.
06:33Not because diplomacy is impossible,
06:35but because London has built a system
06:37that thrives on conflict.
06:39As long as this machine,
06:41of arms, intelligence and finance,
06:44keeps running,
06:45Britain will remain committed not to ending the war,
06:48but to managing it, prolonging it,
06:51and shaping Europe in its image.
06:55And this war, like so many before it,
06:58will end only when that machine stops functioning.
07:01When Britain finally decides
07:03that peace, not power,
07:05is the better currency of survival.
07:18as well.
07:19It's a
07:28ρη
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