This is madness. We are being led by fools for whom war is a bloodsport involving the poor. These 19th century 'war-is-good' cranks should be arrested forthwith.

It seems clear that the decision has already been made within the bowels of the British establishment that direct conflict with Russia will take place. Now it's about frightening the public into supporting the idea, or at the very least accepting it as inevitable. This is the march to WWI redux, and as then so now, much of what passes for the left in Britain will go along to get along to become willing participants in the patriot game. And such is the parlous state of life for our young working class men on our housing estates and schemes -- looking out at a future of no future at all -- the generals, the arms manufacturers, and the Eton wankers will have no shortage of willing pawns in their game. Lambs to the slaughter. They need this war. They need it in order to maintain control over a system that has create far more problems than it could ever solve. Eduardo Galeano said it best: 'The marketplace of fear requires a steady supply of monsters.' Putin's Russia is the monster being used to scare us now, like children being red a bedtime story. Back then our parents would tell us that if we were bad, the bogeyman will come. Now our supposed leaders are telling us that it's the Russians who will come, unless we obey. Russia is the enemy 'without' being used to try maintain control 'within'. It's not Putin or Russia they truly fear, it is us. They can feel the winds of discord blowing in their faces, and now it's about turning that discord into war fever. They lied to us about Yugoslavia. They lied to us about Iraq. They lied to us about Libya. They lied to us about Syria. They are lying to us now about Russia. Siegfried Sassoon reminds us that war is 'The hell where youth and laughter go.' The fight of our lives is upon us to prevent them sending the youth of our time into the same hell as the youth of Sassoon's time was sent. Never again.