I don't think I am romancising anything, the last a war was fought to prevent Britain from being attacked, was in 1945, therefore I respect the people who died in that war. In the previous war people had no idea they were not fighting for our freedom, so i respect them too.
People who sign up to go and die in wars which do not protect me, I do not support. It is akin to terrorism, just with people who are paid and in uniform.
My nana gets no support from the poppy appeal, none whatsoever, neither do any of her friends. Yet soldiers wounded in current conflicts do, that makes no sense to me and they feel very much forgotten.
No Victorian Britain could not have been bombed, but what if it could have? Who had the right to do that? Would it have helped us? You can dodge the question or just answer it, would britain be better without our heritage? Without our ability to have improved ourselves rather than being 'freed' by a foreign nation?
I dont think it would have. Arms have very little to do with it actually because the last big wars we have been involved in have been fought with weapons that we have made and given to the other sides.
Arms is where the regulation needs to be, stop making nasty guns and then getting upset when other people have nasty guns (that you have sold them)
the whole thing is a joke, a joke that costs countless lives and ruins whole countries.
There HAS to be another way.