NATO's welfare-to-warfare pivot masks austerity agenda, critics argue

The article references over one million excess deaths in Britain attributed to austerity policies through 2019, with austerity deepening since.

Across the wealthy democracies of the West, a familiar story is being assembled: external enemies loom, welfare states have grown unsustainable, and sacrifice is required. The Morning Star argues that this narrative is not a security doctrine but an economic one — a coordinated effort to deepen austerity under the cover of manufactured threat, transferring costs onto working people while profits rise elsewhere. The human toll of this logic is not abstract; it has already been counted in excess deaths, rising poverty, and a social contract quietly dismantled while attention was directed toward

NATO's welfare-to-warfare pivot masks austerity agenda, critics argue

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