The UK Defense Minister talks a big deal but with the Houthi attacks, they didn’t have the personnel to send the two UK aircraft carriers to the Red Sea; as a result, the UK pilots had to do a 3000 mile roundtrip bombing effort. Plus, the UK Army is smaller than its ever been (71,000) bc no white male in his right mind would enlist. So who is going to do all this fighting and with what, and about what??
That 3000 mile raid with single seat fighter bombers would be equivalent to the B-29s taking off on Tinian and making the round trip to Hiroshima in WWII.
It’s just a PR stunt that attests to British weakness. They have to send a small fighter bomber with a reduced load. They have no heavy bombers... none.
they have no allies within 1500 miles that let them take off and land. The Brits used to operate out of Oman, Egypt and other places.
Embarrassing for them I would imagine.
> the UK Army is smaller than its ever been (71,000) <
Out of curiosity, I looked it up. The UK has around 160 main battle tanks, with 70 more in storage. Morocco has over 1000 main battle tanks. Quality matters, of course. But if the US needs allied armor help, better call Morocco before calling London.
(only half-kidding here)
And their two mine sweepers in the same area last week had a collision …
They used LinkedIn to advertise for a new head of the British submarine service ( their primary arm of their nuke triad)
To constantly push a narrative that war is inevitable will only lead to war. WWI was like this and totally avoidable. NATO was established to keep the peace and not to rattle cages and beat war drums. The Russian “threat” is a excuse to fuel the war machine deepstate ambitions.