• @[email protected]
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    311 days ago

    the british military slashed budgets considerably after 2008. we’ve maintained special forces and we decomissioned our last carrier before its replacement was ready. we’re back up to 2 carriers now but dont have enough planes to put on them.

    we have virtually no stockpiles of artillery and our land forces are small.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 days ago

      From an entirely selfish perspective, the UK has very few threats militarily, unless the French decide to invade again.

      • sunzu2
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        211 days ago

        Empire is long dead and it is an island, this ain’t wrong… Remaining colonit don’t justify too much posture anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 days ago

        Russia have demonstrated the ability to carry out chemical weapons attacks on mainland UK soil.

        if a full on exchange we would be out of air defence ammunition very quickly.