Comments by "Daimo" (@Daimo83) on "Britain's Shrinking Military - From Cold War Colossus to Cash-Strapped Shadow" video.

  1. Since everyone is so upset let's put this into context. You only need a military to defend Westphalian nation states. British sovereignty remains partly tied to the ECHR and soon to be WHO. Globalisation is the name of the game, in the form of the "rules based international order" of America, and it's petrodollar. We don't need a military since we were conquered by America in 1945 and Europe has been it's vassal states since then, minus some French nationalism. Europe's militaries post 1945 were designed to represent American interests in NATO. Don't mourn for America. They are currently trying to present China as the new threat and create an alliance to contain them. We shouldn't have any part of it, but the defence industry is a cash cow governments don't want to miss out on. There is no threat to Britain, and there never will be: because we have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons make standing armies redundant, unless you want to wage wars of convenience ala Iraq and Afghanistan. I will add that the nature of war has now changed and we can see that through Ukraine. Missiles make tanks irrelevant. Drones make attack helicopters irrelevant. Our infantry won't last five minutes against a peer adversary armed with individual drones, and that's if artillery doesn't get them first. Hypersonic missiles also make aircraft carriers irrelevant (but we don't have any). I reiterate, the only reason to maintain a military is for wars of convenience. But I was infantry, what do I know haha
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