They call it boots on the ground, and Britian used to be one of the greats.

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00:12 They call it boots on the ground. 00:17 and Britain used to have the best boots put on the ground. They were once the world's most powerful military. They enabled it to build the largest empire in recent history. Today, a military spokesman during some hearing admitted they can't even put a thousand troops on the field. You can go to chat GPT and ask it to compile a list of famous British military victories, most of them happening back in, you know, in the day, know, Battle of Waterloo with Napoleon. 00:47 Battle of Britain, RAF defeated the Luftwaffe, Second Battle of Alamein, D-Day Normandy landings. The Falklands War, know, D-Day and Falklands were possible only because of us, but they were real British military victories, even though the 1982 Falklands War was fought against the pathetic Argentinian military. Since then, while Britain did assist in both Iraq and Afghanistan, uh 01:16 It has no victories to its name and indeed it's, 01:21 If a much lauded play about Scotland's famous Black Watch regiment is anything to go by, the British military is in a sad state of decline. 01:34 Part of that has to do with who they decided to target for recruitment. So from 2017 to 2018, the British military explicitly targeted Muslims, LGBTQ plus people and men who cry. 01:53 I'm a real man. cried. I cried when my father died, you know, like the song says. And I know the military is a place of strong emotions. But why would you actively seek a guy who cries? Doesn't it matter why he's crying? 02:11 Now the US before you sitting out there going, yeah, those Brits, they're little punks, aren't they? We were doing the same thing under Biden. But Trump got out there and slapped that around a little bit and he has swiftly managed to return the military to a true military ethos with a focus on winning, not gender or religious identity and affirmation. 02:34 By 2019, recruitment in Britain had gotten so bad that there was an advertising campaign assuring all sorts of bizarre broken Gen Z'ers that they were just what the military needed. 02:47 In 2024, all six of Britain's nuclear power submarines were stuck in port. 03:01 Now, those ports beginning in the 18th century through World War II cranked out ships of the line and merchant ships by the hundreds and they were too broken down to repair the subs. 03:14 Most recently, HMS Dragon, which had just been deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean to help defend Cyprus from Iranian attacks, had to be taken out of commission immediately when they got there to repair a problem. And the problem arose because the ship had been in dry dock being repaired when the call came to put to sea. 03:35 And in the whole British fleet, the Dragon was the only one that was even somewhat seaworthy and it broke down as soon as it got where it was going. 03:49 That's when you sit back and go, oh, how the mighty have fallen. To go from defeating the Spanish Armada and Trafalgar to having one rust bucket on call. 04:00 Then there's a video out now and I didn't, you know, I couldn't find the audio to it, but it's basically the Deputy Chief of Defense Staff trying to avoid admitting that Great Britain cannot deploy even 600 troops not to the Middle East, but to Europe. 04:16 And the reason I say 600 troops is because a British heavy battle group has 600 troops. And that's what they're asking about. Not the, not the thousand. And let's see, we have a member of parliament asking the air marshal air marshal. Could we deploy a heavy division to Europe if the need arose? Air marshal says we have a number of land capabilities. Member of parliament says yes or no. Air marshal says, look, I think that's subject to where we are with our current equipment. 04:45 and our new equipment that's coming in at the moment, we know that we are short of where we want to be in terms of heavy capabilities, which is long way of saying no, they can't do it. Remember, Parliament took it that way. he was asked, then ...

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