Britain has contributed a lot to the world, from the philosophy of Locke,to the physics of Newton, and to the biology of Darwin to name just few influential figures in our history, we may be a small island, we may be less relevant today than in the past, but to be called 'irrelevant' by the Russians of all people is rather amussing. I respect that we're less relevant today than we have been, but our economy and military is still huge.