England still has one of the finest trained militaries in the world. Starmer is the problem. Hopefully his reign of stupidity will end soon.
The picture is, unfortunately, somewhat worse than that. As I type this, the UK is unable to defend their base in Cyprus against missile attacks from Iran, and most estimates are that it will take them 10 days or more to get a missile defense destroyer in place. (Sailing time plus pre-departure procedures.)
Somewhere I read that the Greeks will try to help out, but, the UK's missile defense destroyers are superior - when they are fit to sail.
Almost across the board, the UK's defense capabilities have really withered... :-(