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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Alex Ballinger and Jack McConnell

Voices: As the world gets more dangerous – the UK has to build peace through aid as it prepares for war

The exchange of missiles and airstrikes between Iran and Israel was just the latest of conflicts whose horrors have plastered our screens for the past three years.

Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, the Hamas attack on October 7, and Israel’s devastation of Gaza had already created a sense of chaos. Elsewhere civil war rages in Sudan and a miasma of gang violence has overtaken Haiti. With the US openly joining attacks on Iran, it appears to many that we are entering a new era of violent conflict and instability.

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