🧵 Why UK Troops Aren’t Ready for a War, Why a Ukraine Operation Could be Disaster, & Fixing This Mess ➡️
1/ 💥 Our military’s a hollowed-out relic. Cuts & cock-ups have crippled us. Boots in 🇺🇦 isn't guts—it’s a potential disaster incoming. 🚨 Here’s why + how to fix things: 🪖
1/ 💥 Our military’s a hollowed-out relic. Cuts & cock-ups have crippled us. Boots in 🇺🇦 isn't guts—it’s a potential disaster incoming. 🚨 Here’s why + how to fix things: 🪖
2/ Our army’s size is down to 70,000—unsafely low. And actively deployable? I hear less than HALF of that. Fewer tanks than Poland, kit that’s rusting away. 📉 Decades of budget hacks did this, and no one’s owning it. Total shambles. 😡💢
3/ Ukraine? Starmer’s peacocking about “peacekeeping.” 🦚 Mate, you can’t stop the Channel boats—Russia’s 1.5 million troops would present a mildly larger challenge until a ceasefire is active and clearly defined. Absolute madness. ⚠️👎 We need pragmatic realism.
4/ Our gear’s a joke. Ajax vehicles: cost £4bn, still broken after 10 years. Bowman radios? 1970's style trash. 🎙️💨 Procurement’s a circus—fat cats cash in, actual soldiers get nada... 🤡 Fix our capabilities, make us strong 💰
5/ Defence cash? 2.3% of GDP—weak. 2.5% by 2030? Too late, Putin’s giggling. We needed 3% (and frankly much higher) YESTERDAY. 💸⏳ No more dithering! Increase budget at home, no more international loans 🕰️
6/ Ukraine's front is a hellish grinder—600 km gone last year. Our “hollowed out” lot (that's the ex-Defence Secretary's words, not mine) would be posted for almost nothing without a ceasefire. 🤷♂️ Peacekeeping relies on the US—and Trump is wary of our weak capabilities. 🇺🇸✋
7/ The EU's gone nuts. Wild promises to Ukraine, splashing billions like it's
Monopoly money. 🇪🇺💶 They're not NATO, folks! NATO's guns and grit; EU's a fancy chequebook with no army. We're not their ATM, whatever Starmer thinks! 🏧🚫
Monopoly money. 🇪🇺💶 They're not NATO, folks! NATO's guns and grit; EU's a fancy chequebook with no army. We're not their ATM, whatever Starmer thinks! 🏧🚫
8/ Home front? Another £3bn to Ukraine, HS2 / foreign aid is a black hole, yet our troops starve. 🤦♂️ The EU's overcommitment is dragging us down—NATO commitments & national defence spending are the first port of call, not Brussels' fantasies. Sort out our own house first! 🇬🇧🛠
9/ Fix it: Minimum of an additional 100,000 troops in 5 years—recruit an initial 30,000 pronto. Minimum 3% GDP on defence immediately. Procurement that works, not wows. ✨️ Stop the global handouts. Britain is priority No. 1! 💪🔥
10/ Russia's rattled sabres with NATO over a decade ago—yet still no prep. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. The EU piles on promises it can't keep - they're not NATO's muscle. Trump nailed it—Europe's sponged off America too long. Wake up! 🧠💡 Retweet/share 🚀📲
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