The fiscal rules are just a smokescreen anyway—Reeves breaking them is as inevitable as the next arms deal photo op. They’ll frame it as “supporting democracy” while funneling cash into the military-industrial machine, which thrives on perpetual conflict.

And reinvesting capital? That’s just another way of saying they’ve picked their winners: defense contractors and war profiteers. Ukraine’s suffering becomes a ledger entry, a justification for more spending while austerity guts everything else.

The drug analogy is spot on—except this addiction doesn’t just ruin lives; it feeds on them.