Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would like to see NATO “ultimately disband” and reiterated his distaste for military alliances in general during a recent interview.
Talking with Times Radio’s John Pienaar, the controversial politician tiptoed around admitting his wish to disband NATO.
“I would want to see a world where we start to ultimately disband all military alliances,” he said in response to Pienaar, who asked, “Do you … still believe it would be right to disband NATO or for Britain to leave?”
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Pienaar, unsatisfied with Corbyn’s response or lack thereof, demanded again, “Now and today, here—” to which Corbyn said, “I know what you’re trying to do. I fully understand that.”
“Ask yourself the question: Do military alliances bring peace or do they actually encourage each other and build up to a greater danger?” he continued.
“My view is that military alliances tend to build up a mirror image of each other, and you get the danger because of that.”
He was then asked if “we’d be better off without NATO,” to which he said, “Well, I think we’d be better off in a world at peace rather than a world at war,” once again deflecting the question.
Corbyn further lamented money being used for military spending instead of “health, education, and housing.”
According to the current member of Parliament for Islington North, countries should return to disarmament agreements, thereby avoiding “perpetual war with Russia.”
Corbyn appeared outside Julian Assange’s extradition hearing Wednesday with other demonstrators, expressing disapproval of the ruling.
The magistrates’ decision to order the extradition of Julian Assange to the US to face 175 years in prison is disappointing.
Priti Patel will now have a choice: to stand up for journalism and democracy, or sentence a man to life for exposing the truth about the War on Terror. pic.twitter.com/ORQkLJrrJL
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 20, 2022
“He’s done absolutely no more than telling the truth to the world,” he told Sky News. “We will carry on campaigning.”
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The court approved Assange’s extradition to the United States to face charges pertaining to the leaking of defense information related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
