UK sends ‘clear message’ to Russia and China | Sir Jeremy Quin & Ben Wallace

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  • čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
  • “This is a clear benchmark to our allies that they need to step up as well.”
    The UK's increase in defence spending could encourage other Nato allies to ramp up their budgets to send a "clear message" about arms and capabilities to adverseries, says former minister for defence procurement Sir Jeremy Quin.
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Komentáře • 184

  • @stevieb6368
    @stevieb6368 Před měsícem +25

    I'm sure Russia and China are underwhelmed!

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem

      Think again. Both Russia and China are countries who have previously been defeated by Great Britain.

    • @benbeasant3443
      @benbeasant3443 Před měsícem

      😂

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem

      The UK has already defeated both China and Russia in war.

    • @davidmacdonald1695
      @davidmacdonald1695 Před měsícem

      China maybe. russia probably concerned given they aren’t that big or important.

  • @keithdixon3896
    @keithdixon3896 Před měsícem +8

    Cue the music to Dads Army.... Don't tell him Pike!! 😅😅😅

  • @stephendalton1648
    @stephendalton1648 Před měsícem +18

    We have already been invaded

    • @jamesgreen1116
      @jamesgreen1116 Před měsícem

      That's called karma for Britain ;)

    • @ManGoatHamburger
      @ManGoatHamburger Před měsícem +1

      Good.

    • @Neowulf2066
      @Neowulf2066 Před měsícem +2

      @@jamesgreen1116 Oh good. So you agree having them here is a bad thing. Makes a change from the gaslighting about it being enriching.

    • @markfrost9005
      @markfrost9005 Před měsícem

      We've already been invaded by Muslim foot soldiers coming over on boats, remember the quote we shall invade the beaches etc, now we shall welcome them to our beaches and put them up in hotels 😡

    • @babyamy3884
      @babyamy3884 Před měsícem

      @@jamesgreen1116 stop acting like a victim and go cry somewhere else 😂

  • @CL-un9gg
    @CL-un9gg Před měsícem +5

    The clear message that we might have some sort of defence by 2030? 😂

  • @APW-ry2ok
    @APW-ry2ok Před měsícem +5

    This guy cannot find the camera ,not a good sign….

  • @Withnail1969
    @Withnail1969 Před měsícem +3

    A clear message that we're delusional maybe.

  • @mtam7575
    @mtam7575 Před měsícem +8

    If your house is not secured, no matter what you do, you will not sleep comfortably. This is what defence means for our country.

    • @alf3597
      @alf3597 Před měsícem

      There been a lot of talk on what wash country needs too do instead off talking do it then we and allb nation won't worry so mush follow the sad slogan always ready

    • @alf3597
      @alf3597 Před měsícem

      M sorry mistakes says

  • @dianeirvine7624
    @dianeirvine7624 Před měsícem +3

    Vote for reform and get some sanity back into this country ffs

  • @TheMono25
    @TheMono25 Před měsícem +5

    As far as I can see We either use the money to help fight the war Or money will be worthless after the war anyway

  • @vittoriobruscella1835
    @vittoriobruscella1835 Před měsícem +25

    who sabotaged the North Sea gas pipeline, causing the cost of gas to rise for the people?

    • @abynor8687
      @abynor8687 Před měsícem

      Ahahahahah .... Russian troll.
      Who stopped gas supply to Europe, are you sure it was not Putin?
      Well...now EU doesn't need Russian gas.
      This year is the last for gas transit through Ukraine.

    • @gazmothedamaja
      @gazmothedamaja Před měsícem +4

      The USA and/or Ukrainians.

    • @user-wj7cv9hb5j
      @user-wj7cv9hb5j Před měsícem +3

      I have to say I didn't know ow any north sea gas pipelines were damaged. Sounds to me l ike people don't know what they see talking about let alone people liking the comment 😂😂

    • @user-wj7cv9hb5j
      @user-wj7cv9hb5j Před měsícem +4

      Oh wait are you meaning nord stream? Wrong country.. learn basics of Geography 😂😂😂😂

    • @allencameron3419
      @allencameron3419 Před měsícem +2

      @@user-wj7cv9hb5jwell done on avoiding the valid point he was making or perhaps you don’t understand the point

  • @almacnaughton3688
    @almacnaughton3688 Před měsícem +2

    Very good guest. Helped explain the UK's military budget and other economic concerns to those of us "across the pond".

  • @bauer9101
    @bauer9101 Před měsícem +6

    Good luck getting young people into the forces. They are too busy marching through London.

    • @TS-bj8my
      @TS-bj8my Před měsícem

      That's easy eliminate universal healthcare, free higher education for the poor and then link it to military education like we do in the US. I'm in my fifties and I've NEVER heard of anyone going into the military patriotism or any other reason!

    • @Tbone1492
      @Tbone1492 Před měsícem

      ​@@TS-bj8my
      Rubbish...I've never seen so many flags and Patriotism in US. Besides Russia

    • @Withnail1969
      @Withnail1969 Před měsícem

      Generation Z just arent interested and who can blame them.

  • @deanjordan2664
    @deanjordan2664 Před měsícem +2

    Blame the .gov stripping our ability to manufacture anything in this country!

    • @SonyJimable
      @SonyJimable Před měsícem

      Exactly. They destroyed the industrial base and allowed the skilled labour to drop off. It would have to start from scratch, with a disaster of an economy, heavily in debt, on an island with no mineral resources, oil reserves depleted, and surrounded by desperate competition none of which like us much... OK then.

  • @karyne826
    @karyne826 Před měsícem +2

    Bet they’re both quaking in their boots 😂

  • @FredKerman
    @FredKerman Před měsícem +2

    How. Did. They. Send. It. In. A. Bottle. 😎👍🇮🇪

  • @abynor8687
    @abynor8687 Před měsícem +3

    It is a false dichotomy ... you can spend on both NHS and on Defense....
    Then you have central bank to manage potential issues with interest rates and inflation ...
    We are not in the world where amount of money is limited by a gold standard ....

    • @SlowhandGreg
      @SlowhandGreg Před měsícem

      The Tories have borrowed to the hilt over the last 14 years adding 1.8 trillion to debt, due to rising inflation and the Truss debacle between 12-15% of our GDP is spent on debt repayment
      Until this is addressed were stuck with high interest rates, all of Hunt's 20 billion in NI tax cuts were funded by additional borrowing last year of 130 billion.

  • @gregorytshimwandi8394
    @gregorytshimwandi8394 Před měsícem +6

    Putin has the last laugh though 😂😂😂

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem +2

      Putin is not laughing.

    • @user-dv8vu3kk6i
      @user-dv8vu3kk6i Před měsícem +2

      If American and England could mess with putin they would but they have no chance and putin did not start this mess it was USA and England tell Ukrainian to it all about money war think about how much money Ukrainian has had and what happened to it they have been given tanks and other stuff but they keep asking for more the money they have had they could of paid for new stuff not second hand that’s been given to them

  • @So-Be-It_85949
    @So-Be-It_85949 Před měsícem +1

    75 billion in resources from 2.5% [140 billion pounds]

  • @valeriebrice3673
    @valeriebrice3673 Před měsícem +5

    The UK!? 😂😂😂

    • @valeriebrice3673
      @valeriebrice3673 Před měsícem

      Grant Schapps. The Ukraine assistance is being delayed! The promised amount is slow to be realised.

  • @EricaFiore
    @EricaFiore Před měsícem +2

    Labour need to if they still want my Vote. I am for 3/4% or more. Britain got lucky last time around because the lady paid for the legendary Spitfire, built designed by Mitchell.

  • @russellmaxwell4677
    @russellmaxwell4677 Před měsícem

    About time we spent more on defence. Like everything thing in this country. Defence has been cut to the point we wouldn’t last five minutes if we had to go to war.

  • @user-hz6xo8mx1s
    @user-hz6xo8mx1s Před měsícem +1

    UK sends clear messages to Russia and China and the messages is …😴😴😴

  • @sandybroon1962
    @sandybroon1962 Před měsícem

    About time two,

  • @MrYossarianuk
    @MrYossarianuk Před měsícem +12

    Shame we've lost about 3% GDP from Brexit - that could have been spent on the military

  • @gazmothedamaja
    @gazmothedamaja Před měsícem +16

    Pathetic excuse to waste the nation's money, yet again.

  • @user-yc4xf8cv5y
    @user-yc4xf8cv5y Před měsícem +4

    The political system in UK is rotten 😂😂

  • @alien4422
    @alien4422 Před měsícem +1

    We need to save some money by buying from Germany, South Korea and the US.

  • @220volt-u7
    @220volt-u7 Před měsícem +1

    just because you have money doesn't mean you have an army!!! in Russia they receive this clear message, and so on? :D

  • @Perri_Redder
    @Perri_Redder Před měsícem

    I want to point out that the war is basically not asymmetric. There is a great deal of evolution that is directly induced by conflict of this caliber. Essentially, there will be far less of a chance that funds in development will be wasted as the battlefield is indicating what we advance, directly. Very little imagination is required.

  • @alanmcmillan6969
    @alanmcmillan6969 Před měsícem

    What the UK needs to dpend on is, is the best. It does not matter where it comes from. So step up UK!

  • @gray100
    @gray100 Před měsícem +5

    Does Ben wallace think there's a war in France???

    • @benbeasant3443
      @benbeasant3443 Před měsícem +1

      Maybe he's seen the script.

    • @gray100
      @gray100 Před měsícem

      @@benbeasant3443 sounds like it, pal

  • @cobbler40
    @cobbler40 Před měsícem

    It’s like a geeky weak kid in the playground threatening the school bully.

  • @CodeUK93
    @CodeUK93 Před měsícem

    This dude referred to a AJAX as a tank.. which it most definitely is not. N were supposed to listen to him? And it’s mad we need an army of 200k whether it includes reserves or not and a navy of 120 ships+!! MINIMUM. That should be the absolute lowest. 2 aircraft carries and can barely form a strike group to protect them both as well as anything else. It’s literally ridiculous.

  • @TheJohndoes1
    @TheJohndoes1 Před měsícem +3

    Get a grip ffs we couldn’t beat the Isle of Man

  • @jimjefftube
    @jimjefftube Před měsícem

    It should not be considered a “waste of money” to purchase arms from an ally and sad that this is the way you characterize it? When the US buys from the UK, I never consider it a “waste of money”, I would rather we purchase from our European Allies over any other country, even if it’s at a premium. Time for a little self reflection possibly?

  • @sholder123
    @sholder123 Před měsícem +7

    Its a clear message we are are a tiny nation who should mind their own business

    • @neilslater3653
      @neilslater3653 Před měsícem +5

      If you're speaking on behalf of the Russian flag you fly, absolutely.

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem

      But Ivan your country Russia is the biggest country in the World. But your dictator is the smallest man in the World with a big ego and tiny brain. 😂😂😂

    • @IliyaOsnovikov
      @IliyaOsnovikov Před měsícem

      @@neilslater3653 You seem to forget that Russia is one of three World's superpowers.

    • @neilslater3653
      @neilslater3653 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@IliyaOsnovikov
      Bless...
      A superpower would have won air superiority over Ukraine by now and wouldn't need to be begging North Korea for spare artillery shells.

  • @theepansornalingam4218
    @theepansornalingam4218 Před měsícem

    Totally mat gourmand

  • @SlowhandGreg
    @SlowhandGreg Před měsícem +1

    How are they going to pay for it, which taxes are they going to put up?
    Theyve just spent 20 billion on an unfunded tax cut to boost thier poll ratings baking in real cuts to services of 18%

    • @TheSkaffen
      @TheSkaffen Před měsícem +1

      All the taxes, prepare for a Labour govt.

    • @DRSHANKER
      @DRSHANKER Před měsícem +1

      @@TheSkaffen mans living out here in the worst economic conditions since ww2 and still tries to blame anyone else than his billionaire overlord

    • @SlowhandGreg
      @SlowhandGreg Před měsícem

      ​@@DRSHANKERI'm not against spending on defense my point is that due to Tory incompetence were now paying 15% of our GDP in debt repayment, a consequence of 14 years of failed economic policy + Liz Truss.
      2010 borrowing was 800 billion its now 2.6 trillion, we need an election ASAP before the Tories do any more damage

    • @TheSkaffen
      @TheSkaffen Před měsícem

      @@SlowhandGreg The Politicians don't work for us regardless of who wins. Labour will hike taxes and you still won't get health, border security, high speed rail, ...it's a grift on both sides.

  • @willhall4037
    @willhall4037 Před měsícem

    What does more defence spending mean? Less money for pothole filling. Less money to clear the sewage from our rivers. Less money to pay the French to NOT stop migrants from killing themselves in the channel.
    In truth, our arms and armament corporations will be able to make and sell more abroad.

  • @andrewjones4568
    @andrewjones4568 Před měsícem +1

    lol what clear message to Putin? By 2030 we’ll be ready for what exactly? Hopefully behind the scenes there is a plan in place for mobilisation/conscription should it be needed. That would be a much stronger message tbh.

    • @SonyJimable
      @SonyJimable Před měsícem

      It would only bring forward civil unrest and the portion of the population first captured in the muster and put through training against there wishes would simply mean the unrest will include people proficient in using fire arms, explosives and operating drones against armoured VIP limousines...

    • @IliyaOsnovikov
      @IliyaOsnovikov Před měsícem

      How could any mobilisation/conscription help against modern MIRV ICBMs?

  • @RennieNightcart
    @RennieNightcart Před měsícem +1

    Si vis pacem para bellum.

  • @djordjelezajic8435
    @djordjelezajic8435 Před měsícem

    I am sure Russia is scared that britain that used to be great once upon a time long time ago might threaten them with 43,000 soldiers and one operational airplane carrier , as soon as they can find operational planes for it

  • @alf3597
    @alf3597 Před 28 dny

    That's not before time we don't want too ever be in that position that all natio finds there self in ever againe regarding our adversaries be like S A S always ready from wear ever it comes
    Our world has changed and our adversueris

  • @StPiter111
    @StPiter111 Před měsícem +4

    We just received first Leopards and Bradleys in our victories' museums in Moscow. Abrams and Challenger tanks are coming to our museums of victories in a few weeks time too.
    However, we want French Leclerc machines as well. Can you, please, ask Macron to send a few to Ukraine?

    • @AntonioRomero-te4cb
      @AntonioRomero-te4cb Před měsícem +2

      Да

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem +1

      The Russian army is using Chinese golf carts because all of your tanks and apcs are being destroyed by toy Ukrainian drones. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

    • @Infopirates
      @Infopirates Před měsícem

      ​Ukrainians can't even stop Russian golf carts 😅😅😅​@@alien4422

    • @StPiter111
      @StPiter111 Před měsícem

      ​@@alien4422So, Ukrainians can't stop even Russian golf carts 😅😅😅

    • @AntonioRomero-te4cb
      @AntonioRomero-te4cb Před měsícem +1

      When I take my visit to Russia,
      Besides being a tour of the church, museums and those wonderful subways, a trip to St Petersburg to look at all this overpriced NATO armament.
      🇷🇺

  • @markfrost9005
    @markfrost9005 Před měsícem +1

    The increase the military should be be at 4 percent to send a message to Russia and other potential country's that we mean business.

    • @IliyaOsnovikov
      @IliyaOsnovikov Před měsícem

      And what that message suppose to mean? Should Russia get ready to wipe out the Island?

  • @DominicFlynn
    @DominicFlynn Před měsícem +5

    Defund the NHS. Fund Defence

    • @zyphod
      @zyphod Před měsícem +2

      NA, no money there....Take all the money off the premiere leagues & the arts, use that...Should be plenty!

    • @nopants3560
      @nopants3560 Před měsícem +4

      Defence spending is no where near the NHS. We have enough money to pay for lots of things. They are not exclusive depts ! It's rightwing ideology and corruption that means cuts. We can fund both ,trust me we are a very rich country

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 Před měsícem

      Tax wealth and make the rich pay their way!

    • @DominicFlynn
      @DominicFlynn Před měsícem

      @@alien4422 the rich have usually paid more than their way. You need to do some reading. Atlas Shrugged, Rand.

  • @user-kn4hp4hk5c
    @user-kn4hp4hk5c Před měsícem

    The British army is an absolute joke, it's faced funding cuts year after year for as long as I can remember and because of this our army has shrunk to less than 80,000 troops including naval and air force personnel. It's the smallest since the wars against Napoleon so it's hardly surprising that our enemies fancy their chances right now. Britain would have to spend at least 5% GDP for the next ten years to become a serious fighting force again. The truth is that we've relied on America far too much for far too long but times have changed, it looks for all the world that American is going to be involved in a war against China and Iran, possibility North Korea too whilst Britain, France, Germany and other European Nato countries to Fight against Russia and quite frankly I don't fancy our chances. It's crazy the way that the world has changed since the start of this decade, I never thought they could ever be a nuclear war in my lifetime but it's looking more and more likely with each passing day.

  • @NathanB-ur6nt
    @NathanB-ur6nt Před měsícem

    Ww3 incoming

    • @SonyJimable
      @SonyJimable Před měsícem

      Nah... Just horrible inflation, an end to cheap oil & gas, civil unrest, starvation, financial collapse. Don't worry Russia has ample reserves of everything, and China has a massively efficient industrial base to make everything the two need. They wont be coming to invade the island. We will be sending invitations and there will be lots of smoke signals asking them to come but they won't, sad to say.

  • @irinaellis2446
    @irinaellis2446 Před měsícem +2

    Ben Wallace 👍

  • @user-dv8vu3kk6i
    @user-dv8vu3kk6i Před měsícem +4

    I tell you what if u stop Sticking your nose in other peoples business and looked after our own we would need to be spending money for the army because why would someone to attack us if you’re not sticking her nose in

    • @ImmuneToTrollHate
      @ImmuneToTrollHate Před měsícem +4

      If you think that people only attack others because someone is messing with their business you live in a very blissful world

    • @daniels1263
      @daniels1263 Před měsícem +1

      @@ImmuneToTrollHatethat’s how it usually is

    • @user-dv8vu3kk6i
      @user-dv8vu3kk6i Před měsícem

      @@ImmuneToTrollHateso if we go to war are you going to fight??

  • @seanlander9321
    @seanlander9321 Před měsícem +3

    Britain doesn’t seem to be clear on what defence is. Is it defence of Britain, or defence of NATO? There’s a huge difference in the equipment and force numbers if Britain decides that Europe is a burden that’s not worth the sacrifice and instead fortifies itself.

    • @pneudmatic
      @pneudmatic Před měsícem +2

      If England had thought this way in 1939, your comment would be in German.

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 Před měsícem +1

      @@pneudmatic Why? If Britain had thought this way in 1939, millions of lives would have been saved, it wouldn’t have been bankrupted, and after a short break, trade would have resumed with Germany’s new colonies on the continent.

    • @user-kq5ke5yb6k
      @user-kq5ke5yb6k Před měsícem

      @@seanlander9321 - Don't kid yourself. The English Channel may have been a decent barrier in 1939, 1940. In a few years....

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 Před měsícem

      @@user-kq5ke5yb6k The Huns weren’t interested.

    • @BrianRusk
      @BrianRusk Před měsícem

      @@seanlander9321 Millions of lives saved? Not Jewish, Romani, or homosexual ones.

  • @JuanSanchez-ik7wx
    @JuanSanchez-ik7wx Před měsícem +1

    The HOMELESS GUY is back with a donated new pajama top. However, he has partially complied with management by donning the new headsets. One could assume that they gave him a box of donuts in exchange for agreeing to use the new grime-free headset. All kidding aside, he has nothing but contempt for TR, TR management, TR colleagues and (most of all) the viewing audience. Big thumbs down for bozo.

  • @YLYLMR
    @YLYLMR Před měsícem +5

    Indian boy take Europeans money give to Ukraine

  • @ankicanedeljkovic8334
    @ankicanedeljkovic8334 Před měsícem +1

    Mir mir mir u cijelom svijetu sada odmah mir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @AntonioRomero-te4cb
    @AntonioRomero-te4cb Před měsícem +1

    Excuse the spelling,
    Walking my dog.
    Uf you were to calculate all the components that are spent on war throughout history it'll take an entire book.
    Instead of building, growing, learning, achieving?
    Build an overpriced 1.5 billion dollar Air defense system.
    One
    Really?
    This entire war nonsense is absurd.
    And, leave those Russians be.
    They are on the right side of history.

  • @johnnorman7044
    @johnnorman7044 Před měsícem

    it's about time that HM gov at last has woke up but the problem with all this is with what material's and where from?? who is going to make this stuff engineers don't come out of thin air ?? and what are they going to make it with and where ??? big chunk of UK manufacturing has gone and a lot of the skills as well. ah well we can get it all from ????

  • @HolocaustShmolocaust
    @HolocaustShmolocaust Před měsícem +11

    Hahaha 🤣 Britain sends a message to China? The British must still think they're living in the days of the old British colonial era 😂

    • @benmcinerny8881
      @benmcinerny8881 Před měsícem

      considering Chinese anti-ship missiles are all filled with water instead of fuel it sounds like China is also living in the early 20th century

    • @user-kq5ke5yb6k
      @user-kq5ke5yb6k Před měsícem +2

      Well, Britain does have a friend with more economic, military and cultural/media power than China.

    • @HolocaustShmolocaust
      @HolocaustShmolocaust Před měsícem

      @@user-kq5ke5yb6k no it doesn't.the USA send Janet Yellen to China to beg for help, and tells China to stop being too productive. So not economically. Not military since the USA can't fight China. Not culturally, since the USA culture is Hollywood garbage.

    • @elbibwen3019
      @elbibwen3019 Před měsícem

      @@user-kq5ke5yb6k Chinese Culture is over 5ooo years old compare to 3oo years old colonial state - way more culture
      and your 'more economic country' only have *34 Trillion Dollar Debt*, mostly owed to China - as for media...just lies making Hollywood machine which will soon be completely destroyed

    • @APW-ry2ok
      @APW-ry2ok Před měsícem

      Think NATO, 32 nations ,the strongest military in the world and the U.K. is part of it .