OPINION – US, Trump, military spendingIt’s said that hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. In that light, Donald Trump renaming the US Department of Defence the Department of War is a very bad sign. “Defence” in the mouths of US — and indeed British — leaders has long been a euphemism. Offence had to be disguised as defence because wars of conquest were no longer respectable. In a world lurching towards war let the labour movement stand for peace.