Cameron is acting like a coward on Ukraine

We definitely don't have the best military in the world, man-for-man Israel probably has the best military. The US spends about half of their GDP on Military Spending, and is probably the most formidable force on the planet. This is all speculation, but there are several countries I can think of with better armed forces than us.

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So Russia can invade and split nations as they like?If we let Putin or anyone else behave like this,he will go on until there is nothing left.Also notice that extremist right parties are probably going to win in EU nations so the message we are giving is that anyone can invade other nations without retaliation.

Lol who cares what Britain says? Let's stop lying to ourselves; we're an irrelevance on the world stage, apart from the fact that our financial sector is competitive. We're a puny island that's had it's time. Empire is gone, even with our great legacy in mathematics and the sciences, we've let America, Europe, Japan, Russia and many more take the lead, by lightyears. We've also made enemies with the EU, the only institution that gave us any political clout globally. Forget it, we suck.

Oh dear, seat on UN security council, the best special forces in the world (excluding the Israelis, almost every special forces in the world are based on our and are/have been trained by Britain's special forces) , 1st/2nd most powerful city in the world, 2nd best education system in the western world, (4th?) biggest military expenditure, one of the biggest GDPs. Britain still has considerable political clout. However unlike Russia etc, we have much more 'soft power'.

It's part of Europe and full of people with feelings, aspirations etc heck they could have been joining the EU in a few years...

Oh dear, seat on UN security council, the best special forces in the world (excluding the Israelis, almost every special forces in the world are based on our and are/have been trained by Britain's special forces) , 1st/2nd most powerful city in the world, 2nd best education system in the western world, (4th?) biggest military expenditure, one of the biggest GDPs. Britain still has considerable political clout. However unlike Russia etc, we have much more 'soft power'.

We definitely don't have the best military in the world, man-for-man Israel probably has the best military. The US spends about half of their GDP on Military Spending, and is probably the most formidable force on the planet. This is all speculation, but there are several countries I can think of with better armed forces than us.

You do have a point with the equipment though. All our stuff is setup to fight in the middle east. However, think about the camps where UK troop train at. Green, foresty areas of the UK, and then urban training camps would use the same/similar tactics in the Ukraine as they would in the middle east.

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There is much more justification for that than there is the Iraq war tbh, Ukraine is a sovereign nation which has just been invaded. Ethnic Ukrainians are being abused now in the places which Russia is now occupying, it seems to wrong to just abandon them.

Lets look at it like this... you want us to go to war with a super power potentially resulting in nuclear armageddon. To prove a point to Russia... that it cannot take land which is mostly ethnic Russian and the people are protesting independence.

I'd much rather have peace than fighting Russia just to win a war built on egos and no true valid reason.

UN Security Council? What does that even mean anymore? Any rich enough country gets on that list. What big role has Britain played, apart from impotent speeches by Hague?

I agree, our special forces are brilliant. But how does this translate into political clout, apart from sending troops here and there to Africa sometimes (and then moaning about the expenditure at home)?

What do you mean by "powerful"? Yeah London generates a lot of wealth, but so does New York, Tokyo and increasingly Beijing as the Chinese move into services.

Lol our education system has been shown again and again to be mediocre. A quick internet search will tell you we're way behind the Europeans, particularly the Nordics, in education. I like how you limited it to "Western world" too, it makes me think you know how much the Asians beat us.

Haha, the USA spends the most, followed by China. We're responsible for 3% of global military expenditure. While we've been.making cuts and hoping for volunteers, Russia's military spending has gone up by like 40% over the last 10 years. Like I mentioned earlier, we're also way behind with technology. In America, DARPA is investigating crazy ideas for the military. As for nuclear weapons? Every Tom Dick and Harry has them now.

Yeah we have big GDP, but why does that matter when literally hundreds of thousands of people go to food banks? Why does that matter when austerity has hit us so badly, and jobs are harder to get than ever? We've seen no rise in real wages for years too.

Sorry man but Britain really is insignificant, and we're only becoming more so everyday.


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So Russia can invade and split nations as they like?If we let Putin or anyone else behave like this,he will go on until there is nothing left.Also notice that extremist right parties are probably going to win in EU nations so the message we are giving is that anyone can invade other nations without retaliation.