❓War preparedness or fearmongering? What's behind the West's emergency readiness push?

↓ Western governments urge households, military installations to prepare for prolonged disruptions as security concerns grow

🗣 'Politicians warn of an approaching war, the media amplifies those warnings, and the resulting public anxiety is then used to justify further military spending,' says Iain Overton, executive director of Action on Armed Violence

➖ 'We are increasingly treating war as something to prepare society to accept, rather than something that diplomacy