A Gas Station With Nuclear Weapons? Why UK Fits the Bill Far Better Than Russia

‘There is currently a heated debate going on in Britain whether the country should renew its trident nuclear missiles. Conservatives claim the modernization will cost no more than £31 billion and insist it should be done. Corbyn’s labourites on the other hand want to give them up asserting UK is better off without.

Last week US Defense Secretary Ash Carter joined the debate offering that UK should definetely renew its nukes in order to “continue to play that outsized role on the global stage that it does because of its moral standing and its historical standing.”

Carter couldn’t be more right or more wrong. Great Britain is indeed a former global power and its nukes are a reminder of that. However, the truth is also that UK has given up the role of a power long ago and will not recap it either with nukes or without.

To be a great power a state must first be an independent power – something that the UK is empathically not.’

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