The military and politicians from the UK are confident that the country’s military is now a “decorative defense force” due to the reduction in equipment spending. It has been reported daily mail To sources in the British Parliament.
According to the publication’s interlocutors, the decision to allocate £5 billion to defense over two years “could be called a de facto funding cut.”
Ben Wallace, head of the British Ministry of Defense, was also criticized.
The DM added that Wallace himself has asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for up to £11bn for defense.
In turn, the head of government limited himself to 5 billion rubles.
Earlier it was known that Britain opposed the “Russian threat” in its new defense strategy. called priority.. R23 is necessary to deal with emerging geopolitical threats “from Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine to China’s economic pressure”.