Europe is metamorphasizing. It has entered a cocoon, and no one seems certain what will emerge.
Monetary Union will be taking shape this year. Military union should soon follow. Rising unemployment is demanding a solution, even a drastic one. September may usher in a new German chancellor. France is becoming stranger ideologically. The Bundeswehr is showing neo-fascist undercurrents.
It is in this uncertain, ominous atmosphere that Britain, under its current Labour government, is undergoing Strategic Defense Review. Mapping out a new program for its military in a post-Cold-War world.
So, is she taking a tougher, more defensive posture? Preparing herself in case something may go awry, as it very well may?
No; in fact she is doing the opposite. “We no longer face the threat of general war in Europe,” the Defense Secretary is boldly stating. That is the major premise of the Review.
On March 31 Britain announced that the Royal Air Force’s nuclear arsenal will be eliminated—hundreds of small-scale, very accurate and deadly tactical nuclear weapons, decommissioned. Michael Clark of the Center of Defense Studies at King’s College explained simply, “Nobody could think of a sensible use for nuclear weapons carried under aircraft like this.” How simple things become when Germany is viewed as an ally.
That leaves Britain with just her Trident-loaded submarines, which have incomprehensible, Armageddon-like power. These, honestly, Britain will never use.
In the process of “restructuring,” “modernizing” and “evolving” its military, the UK is parading its weak will and further opening itself up as a target of international aggression.
The Bible prophesies that Britain does in fact face the threat of a European war, and soon. Our booklet The History and Prophecy of Germany thoroughly explains why. The Bible also says that nuclear weapons will be used.
But not by Britain.