UNITED KINGDOM VS RUSSIA Military Power Comparsion 2018 who is better? | Войска России против Великобритании, кто лучше?
The "belligerence" of Vladimir Putin on the borders of Europe creates a situation that no British Prime Minister has had to face after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc. "I do not in any way suggest that a war against Russia in Europe is very likely, but if - God forbid - it really happens, absolutely no one in London, Berlin or Paris has the proper weapons to fight against her ", - the author of the article asserts.
The ability of Britain to wage war against a real world power is a myth that existed since the end of the Second World War, the journalist stresses. Year after year, the reduction in defense spending to the fact that its size is already less than the number of employees of the network of British supermarkets Sainsbury `s. According to Critchlow, England has only a few tanks and even fewer ammunition.
However, the author of the article notes, even despite these reductions, British military power has long been a myth. Conflicts, in which she participated since 1945, were mostly against the rebels, as in the recent "unsuccessful campaign" in the mountains of Afghanistan. She also fought against more "weak opponents" in Argentina in 1982 or in Iraq in 1991.
The harsh reality is that Britain, like the rest of Europe, will not be able to resist the Russian army without the "firm support" of the US, which they do not guarantee, the journalist points out.
The author of the article tells about his own experience "preparation for war with the Russians" immediately after the end of the Cold War, when as a British soldier he was sent to the course on recognition of enemy tanks. The course concluded that the instructor put toy models of Soviet tanks T-80 and T-60 on the flower beds of the army garden. Then he had to correctly name the models, looking at them through an optical sight with a distance of 10 meters.
