Sorry Bookmark, didn’t highlight your post so wasn’t clear.
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Okay. So if we did leave NATO, what happens when Russian ships turn up to stalk British waters as a blatant act of provocation, which they've done before now, what do we do? We won't have any NATO allies to help us get them to back off, it'll be up to us to handle”
I imagine we would use our airforce and navy much as we are in the waters off of Yemen atm. I don’t see other NATO forces other than the US rushing to take part there, so I’m not sure why we would expect them, with the possible exception of France, to rush to our aid in those circumstances?
This is all pure speculation, anyway. Do you really think the Russian forces are in any fit state to engage in a major war elsewhere in Europe? Their machine and Human Resources are severely depleted. Much of the equipment was already outdated prior to the invasion of Ukraine. Morale amongst forces and the population is low. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands, no-one actually knows because The Kremlin won’t say, obviously, of young men fled to avoid conscription. All those who could have been, have been and are being sent home in body bags in their thousands. Where are the equipment/troops Putin would need to launch a land invasion on the UK going to come from? Resistance is really beginning to be heard more widely in Russia, now. Brave people are feeling more confident in putting their heads above the parapet now to publicly question and object, mostly mothers of dead soldiers as is often the case. Of course as some have said on this thread, he could engage his nuclear armaments. In all likelihood, they would be shot down before they left Russian skies.
Putin too is an old man, despite his calendars and Botox. I hope it won’t be too long before nature takes its course (or someone with sense in the Kremlin intervenes