Hannah Lucinda Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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On the other hand...
My friend made the point, and it's a really good one.
At our universities, you have plenty of students from other countries all over the world learning skills.
They're going to take it back to their countries and use it in the defence industries.
So I think we probably have to get a little bit less squeamish.
Again, I hope I don't sound like an absolute warmonger.
I hope I don't sound like I'm whitewashing the arms trade.
It's a dirty old business.
But it's necessary.
And but yeah, I mean, I do think we have the kind of the sort of foundations for it in this country.
So whether we've got the stomach for it.
Right.
I mean, to your point about diplomacy, diplomacy is still there.
But what is diplomacy if you don't have something to back up with?
Whether that's, you know, the carrot in forms of, you know, trade deals, right?
in good relations, or whether it's to stick in forms of defence.
I mean, if diplomats, if all they can do is go around to ambassadors' functions and make nice conversation... That's true, but then every country would say that, won't they?
Life's not fair.
No, no, no, no.
Russia's entire economy at this point has been turned into a war economy.
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