what do you expect when we have clowns in power for about 20+ years
Ok.
you still think where a global super power? people saying oh russia might have thousands of jets but how many are operational.
Didn't say we were a global super power, you've invented a position for me then attacked it, this is called a "straw man argument".
they only need a small fraction to outnumber the UK.
Is that how it works, is 1 Typhoon equivalent to 1 SU-24? You realise the F-15 has over 100 air-to-air kills with 0 losses, but you'd presumably say an F-15 is worth the equivalent of 1 of it's opponents planes? Try to understand that numbers don't mean very much if you can shoot down a plane from 120 miles away when the enemy plane only has missiles with a 40 mile range.
like russia has what 44 nuclear subs? 24 electric?
only 24 of the nuclear subs were operational as of 2008 according to google.
So Russia has 24 Subs to operate in the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Artic Sea, Pacific Ocean, etc, etc. Russia has a vast amount of water to cover with their fleet, the UK is geographically small, we don't have an empire to defend, we need a slightly larger surface fleet but it would be silly to have a similar number to Russia or the US.
we have a total of 11.... we don't even have an offensive EW plane....
The F-35 is an offensive EW plane btw.
about the only thing we have more than them is +1 aircraft carrier and about +4-6bil more in our military budget.
The Russians aircraft carrier isn't operational, it had a fire and has a vague ETA of when it'll be back in service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov#Fire
The world doesn't like us for intervening anywhere, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, libya..
We're in the business of protecting UK and Western interests, not keeping making everyone like us.
we're just a puppet of America on the world stage that meddles in places it's not wanted to support American regime change.
I don't think you actually follow what the UK military does abroad, we have a lot of operations where we're cooperating with countries that aren't America, invading Iraq in 2003 and when America triggered article 5 of the NATO convention following 9/11 doesn't make us a puppet.
it's about time we thought about our actual position in the world and how we want other countries to see us, standing on our own feet not holding americas coat tails.
Our actual position in the world is defending Western Democracy and the free market and maintaining nuclear non-proliferation and stopping the expansion of people opposed to those values, we do that alongside countries a lot of countries who do that, America being by far the biggest contributor. We're actually lucky to have America as an ally, do you even realise how vast the US Navy is compared to anyone else? Why wouldn't we want to be allies with America? Are you suggesting we "go it alone" and leave NATO or what?
Yes we're still important on the world stage, but not for being a military power
You could say the same about a lot of countries, the only "military power" is the US.
