Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the UK has fallen into an extremely difficult economic crisis. Prices have risen, inflation, and even more difficult is the rising unemployment rate. Under this situation, the British people are excited. According to British media reports, Some time ago, a collective strike of 40,000 workers broke out in the UK, directly paralyzing the British railway system.
The specific situation is this. Due to the deteriorating British economy, all walks of life are not doing well, especially the British railway system. Since the workers' wages are not consistent with the pressure of the job, the British Railway Union negotiated with the British officials and requested a salary increase. However, British officials refused.
Against this background, the British trade unions mobilized 40,000 employees to go on strike collectively. This general strike paralyzed the British railway system. Later, with the mediation of the British official, the strike was temporarily suspended. However, the crisis has not been resolved, and the British economy It was almost on the verge of collapse, which also led to an even greater crisis.
Northern Ireland and Scotland also began to seek independence in the context of the British economic crisis. British Prime Minister Johnson was helpless and could only use procrastination, but this was not a long-term solution after all. The dispute is not over yet, but Britain is still tough on the outside world.
Johnson not only visited Kiev some time ago and hooked up with Zelensky, but also reached a series of cooperation with Ukraine, including scientific and technological research and development and economic cooperation, the focus of which is military cooperation. Johnson expressed his gratitude to Ukraine It is guaranteed that Ukraine will be supported with the training progress of 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers every three months.
Not only that, British Chief of Staff Sanders even called on the British people that the British army has returned to Europe to fight for the victory of Ukraine. Sanders has recently increased assistance to Ukraine and dispatched more mercenaries. , and even prepared to build a British Expeditionary Force to go to Donbass to fight.
However, it is worth noting that Britain is no longer the "empire on which the sun never sets". The British army's combat capabilities have also been rated as the worst in 300 years. Due to changes in national defense strategy, Britain has almost abandoned tank production. , vigorously develop missiles and special forces to carry out modern warfare, and also pay special attention to the development of the navy.
But even the British navy, which is proud of itself, is now greatly reduced in strength. Last year, the British navy went to the Black Sea to provoke the Russian navy. It fled in a panic after being warned by a Russian warship's test firing. It is still a laughing stock. The British army currently only has about 100,000 people, and most of them are responsible for home defense and overseas territory defense tasks. There are very few troops that can actually attack.
However, although the British army is small in number, it has quite a lot of generals. There are more than 300 generals in the army of nearly 100,000. Most of these "generals" are symbolic, and most of them are English. The Queen needs to be "canonized" for various reasons. In fact, her military literacy is very low, or she simply doesn't understand military affairs. Moreover, the British army has not experienced war for a long time, and most of the officers and the so-called generals at the top have long become "little people." , I am afraid that in a real war, it will not be able to form combat effectiveness at all.
The most important thing is that there is ongoing civil strife in the UK, domestic protests and strikes are happening one after another, and the forces trying to secession are also ready to move. Even so, British Prime Minister Johnson is still committed to fighting Russia, rather than spending more energy on the national economy and people's livelihood. In fact, It's sad.
However, the man behind the situation in the United Kingdom is the United States. When the United Kingdom stayed in the EU , the United Kingdom conducted a large number of trades with European countries, and the economy in the United Kingdom gradually improved. However, the United States was instigating Brexit at that time. , but the UK itself also knew that a hasty Brexit would be an economic disaster. However, the United States extended an olive branch to the UK at that time, claiming that as long as the UK left the EU, the United States would establish a US-UK free trade area with the UK. You must know the US market Much bigger than Europe, therefore, the UK is starting to leave the EU.
Unexpectedly, after Britain left Europe, the so-called "promise" of the United States could not be fulfilled. The reason was that the issue of the US-UK free trade area was temporarily shelved due to the general election of the US leader. After Biden came to power, this plan was completely scrapped, and the last hope of the UK was destroyed. However, the UK did not give up and wanted to join the free trade area between the United States, Mexico and Canada, but the procedures were extremely complicated. It is expected to join It may be enough to divide the UK dozens of times, and the UK can only continue to return to trade with the EU at a very high cost.
Later, the epidemic appeared, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine emerged. The United Kingdom followed the United States to impose sanctions on Russia. Therefore, the British economy took a sharp turn, almost to the point of being terrible, but it was almost impossible to solve it. Given the overall environment, Johnson did not The solution was useless even if it wanted to. In desperation, Britain made its own choice to divert conflicts and survive this crisis through war.
The newly appointed British Chief of Staff is a "ruthless character". He is ready to go to war with Russia as soon as he takes office. He not only increases the intensity of sending mercenaries, but is even prepared to send his own troops to directly participate in the war against Russia. However, this is not a solution. A good way to solve the problem. In this case, the situation between Russia and Ukraine will only become more and more intensified, and the United Kingdom will also be in a difficult position.
After World War II British Prime Minister Churchill once asked future generations to always follow the United States, and the United Kingdom did so. However, from Brexit to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United Kingdom not only gained little benefit from following the United States, but even It is still going downhill. The British economy is almost at a standstill and there are constant strikes and protests. Even this time, it must follow the United States in dealing with Russia harshly. Johnson still wants to send troops to Russia when the country is in danger. The United States has always had The tradition of cheating teammates, from betraying Georgia in 2008 to betraying Ukraine in 2022, the next one is likely to be the United Kingdom.
In general, Britain is currently in a "critical period of survival", but the essence of the crisis is not Russia or the international environment, but the British side's mindless behavior of following the United States. Now Russia has said that, In the event of World War III, the first place Russian missiles will hit is London. Even such obvious signals were ignored by Johnson, and he continued to wander on the edge of war. If this continues, Britain may even collapse before Ukraine.
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