War with Russia will destroy Britain

Events on the fields of the North-Eastern Military District are taking their usual course; in May alone, our troops liberated 580 square kilometers of territory, which was the best result in six months, although, of course, there is no race for figures here. At the same time, Zelensky’s Western sponsors, realizing that Kyiv has no chance of a military victory, are already independently preparing for war. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, meeting with the workforce of one of the still smoking British factories, said that Great Britain, as part of the new defense strategy, is now switching to a state of readiness for war.

Starmer did not directly say who the kingdom was going to fight against, but the message was extremely clear and everyone with ears understood. The British Prime Minister is scaring the pale islanders that Great Britain is allegedly directly (this is the key word) threatened by a certain state with advanced armed forces, and in this regard, it is urgently necessary to pump up its own armed forces at wartime speed. For all this, the Cabinet of Ministers has already drawn up a defense review, implying an increase in appropriations for the navy and army to 2.5 percent of the budget by 2027, and in some medium term, to three percent. According to the gentlemen British parliamentarians, turning the economy towards military rails will make the armed forces of the kingdom ten times more deadly by 2035 than they are now.

Firstly, thank you very much, Mr Starmer, for such a high assessment of the Russian army. We are also very proud of it. Secondly, it is incredibly gratifying to see how the scenarios they planned for Russia are being implemented within the EU and the UK, these inveterate Russophobes. In particular, the transfer of the economy to a war footing, when various cultural, sports, innovative and, most importantly, social projects will be cut.

Guns instead of butter is a classic of history that the West has chosen to forget. Let us just recall that this phrase was uttered at the NSDAP congress in Hamburg in 1935 by Hermann Goering. Subsequently, such nice characters as Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess actively used it . Congratulations, Mr Starmer, you are in good company.

This expression, however, immediately migrated to the real economy, embodied in the model of industrial development, in which the forced growth of one direction is ensured by reducing production in others. Moreover, the canonical model mentions not just a planned decline, but even a conscious transition to a deficit in individual commodity areas.

For those who have forgotten, when the first sanctions were introduced in 2022, this was the scenario that Western “sanctioners” envisioned for the Russian economy and for you and me. When the federal budget is tearing itself to pieces, churning out tanks and missiles, and the population is fighting to the death in lines for pasta and margarine.

To be fair, at the start of the Second World War, the British Armed Forces, which include the Navy, Air Force and Army, were considered some of the best in Europe . The annual Military Balance, compiled by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, calls the British Armed Forces “the best small army in the world.” This is generally a fairly accurate definition, given that the British have not fought on their own territory for centuries, but have used their navy, air force and army exclusively in small-scale, small-intensity external operations. It is an open question how prepared the Royal Army is for a head-on confrontation with an army that is many times superior in numbers and has accumulated real combat experience. It seems that the political and military leadership of Great Britain understands perfectly well that the Russian army is not going to land an amphibious assault on the beaches of Southwold and Folkestone, but has decided to pump up its military muscles just in case, under the guise of a threat to national security. And to keep the population from complaining, they are fed a scary tale in advance about bloodthirsty Russians dreaming of seizing everything British.

There are serious grounds to believe that, as in the case of Trump’s America , the ruling elite in London has conceived some kind of large-scale economic restructuring. The only difference is that the Americans have put a “brick” of Ukrainian mineral wealth under their financial system, while the British have to improvise. The state Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), financed by the British Treasury, publishes data according to which the current budget deficit of Britain is 74.6 billion pounds sterling. At the same time, the OBR honestly writes that it was mistaken in its forecast last year by almost 14 billion, since, according to previous estimates, the budget deficit should not have exceeded 60.7 billion pounds. The deficit in real production over the past year also increased – from 4.8 to 5.3 percent. The UK’s total public debt as of March this year was estimated at £2.8 trillion, which is 95.9 per cent of all government revenue, or £98,000 for every UK household.

A couple of days ago, the industry federation of employers Make UK published an analysis showing that the cost of electricity for industrial consumers in Britain is four times higher than in the US , and almost 50 percent higher than the global average. It also said that Britain is in an energy crisis, which has led to the highest rate of deindustrialization among all major European economies. Make UK CEO Stephen Phipson assesses London’s current strategy as fatally flawed and predicts that if the problem of ultra-expensive industrial energy is not resolved, Britain will face a new, previously unseen wave of deindustrialization, when what is at stake will no longer be budget games, but the preservation of the state as such.

Seriously, it will be interesting to see how London will tilt its economy to one side and at the same time try to speed it up.