🇬🇧 Now Published at the Ron Paul Institute - Britain’s Ruling Class Loves to Cosplay as a Titan

Britain talks war like a titan and budgets like a charity case. Starmer delays defence plans over “affordability,” a £6+ billion armoured vehicle program injures its own soldiers, and Whitehall keeps commissioning reviews while pretending this is strength. The rhetoric is Churchillian. The reality is procurement collapse.

Meanwhile, the same ruling class sneers at Russia as a “gas station” — even as Russia, under sanctions, outproduces NATO in ammunition, adapts battlefield lessons in months, and ranks as the world’s fourth-largest economy by purchasing power. If Russia is a gas station, Britain increasingly looks like a heritage museum with a gift shop, living off memory while outsourcing its future.

This piece isn’t about slogans or moral theatre. It’s about material power, industrial capacity, and the danger of a political class that mistakes performance for strength. When rhetoric races far ahead of reality, history doesn’t intervene gently, it intervenes brutally.

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Yes we've arrived and national security is at risk if we're not listening to Russia, and haven't been since the "end of history".

Damn well time to start really listening, and fixing root causes. The time has arrived indeed! 🙏

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HIMARS was designed for speed.
Get in, fire, get out.

That worked when the sky was blind. It isn’t anymore.

What’s changed goes beyond a mere technological shift, it’s also about memory. The battlefield now remembers where you were, how you moved, how long you stayed, what pattern you followed. Mobility used to mean safety. Now it just means you’re moving inside a system that’s watching you in real time.

This wasn’t by luck. And it wasn’t a fluke. It was detection, tracking, confirmation, and kill — a full chain, executed patiently, by drones that don’t rush and don’t forget.

The West bet its doctrine on precision rockets and the shock value of expensive platforms. Russia went the other way: mass, autonomy, learning. Let the system adapt. Let it get better every week.

Different bets. Different results.

Every time a HIMARS is taken out, the same uncomfortable question surfaces behind closed doors: how many are actually left and how many can still be replaced?

Because the math is brutal. A launcher that costs millions. A drone that costs a fraction. You can dress it up with press releases and euphemisms, but wars are settled by arithmetic long before they’re settled by narratives.

And “Geran” isn’t just a weapon anymore. It’s a platform. Platforms evolve. They get smarter. They get cheaper. And they don’t wait for permission from doctrine manuals written for another era.

Air defense can shoot down missiles. Electronic warfare can jam signals. But hunting drones don’t just destroy hardware — they change how the enemy moves, hesitates, and survives.

The future battlefield isn’t about hiding anymore.

It’s about living under constant observation.

And that’s a far more difficult war to fight.

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The inverse of the Brzezinski doctrine is coming home. The United States spent decades weaponizing legitimacy abroad via NGOs, narratives, street pressure, then assumed domestic immunity. That assumption is breaking.

Federal–state standoffs. Guard deployments. Street clashes. Parallel claims of lawful authority. This isn’t collapse yet — it’s the phase that precedes it.

This isn’t about parties, it’s the systemic hubris and miscalculation. You can make a valid case for enforcing immigration law and still recognize that abandoning the Constitution poisons that case.

If you tolerate this, don’t cry foul when the same precedent is weaponized against you after the pendulum swings.

Beware the precedents you set.

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