The French government of Emmanuel Macron has warned the nation’s hospitals to expect as many as fifty thousand wounded men next spring after a ‘major military engagement’ in Europe, as NATO nations continue to bang the drum for war with Russia.

The news seems to have been downplayed or ignored by some UK ‘mainstream’ media – notably the BBC – but international news outlets have reported on it:

Last year, France’s then-Economy Minister Bruno le Maire, who had threatened two years earlier to collapse Russia’s economy, told the EU to raid €35 trillion from private savings to fund war, while Sweden moved to reintroduce conscription and Keir Starmer, who has already committed to vast increases in military spending, refused in June to rule out war with Russia and Defence Secretary John Healey only six days ago vowed to stand with Ukraine against Russia “as long as it takes”.

On Monday, Starmer posted a video to his X account that trumpeted military spending as the key to economic growth. Among more than a thousand disgusted commenters, musician John Stealer responded:

Don’t believe the Hasbara. Keir Starmer wants to send your sons and daughters, not his, to die on the killing fields of Ukraine. Like Blair he’s a warmonger who wants to become a multi millionaire on the deaths of our children. Reject him and his lies.

The French government’s order to its hospitals suggests Stealer may be right.

Another posted footage of a Ukrainian man being snatched from the street by Ukrainian thugs to be sent to the meat-grinder of the Russian front and said:

Boosting the economy by fuelling the disastrous Ukraine war to maintain the nonsense ‘threat from Russia’. ie by using Ukrainian blood. Evil.

Evil indeed, but it may not only be Ukrainian blood Starmer and his European counterparts are prepared to spill.

Featured image via the Canary

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.