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The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO.
In August 2022, HMS Prince of Wales sailed out of Portsmouth to cross the Atlantic for joint exercises with the US Navy. She was the pride of the modern Royal Navy. A four-billion-pound aircraft carrier. The flagship of Global Britain.
She made it about 20 miles.
Then the propeller shaft coupling sheared & one of only two carriers in the entire British fleet limped back to port and spent the better part of a year in dry dock while American carriers did the work Britain had promised to do.
That’s the Royal Navy in 2026. It’s a museum with a TickTock account.
I’ve called the Canadian Navy a glorified Coast Guard but the UK can’t even keep migrant boats off its shores.
Nelson had over 100 ships of the line at Trafalgar. The fleet that fought WW2 had over 900 warships.
Horatio Nelson
John Fisher
Andrew Cunningham
David Beatty
Bertram Ramsay
Edward Hawke
George Rodney
Richard Howe
John Jellico
And First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are all spinning in their graves.
If they were resurrected today they would each give British PMs the lash.
Today the Royal Navy has roughly 70 commissioned vessels. Maybe 15 of them are meaningful surface combatants.
It sounds marginally ok but any given day, a significant percentage are in dry dock, undermanned, or waiting for spare parts.
And China launches more tonnage in a quarter than the Royal Navy possesses in total.
You do not rule the waves. You do not rule the Channel. You rule a Wikipedia.
And it gets worse.
You don’t even rule the world’s imagination anymore. Master and Commander came out a quarter century ago and nobody’s planning a sequel.
Scooby Doo got a sequel, Jack Aubrey does not.
It’s sad. It’s pathetic.
But even more sad is the fact you don’t stand up and demand one. Neither does the former Navy commanding officer you call King.
You have decided to roll over instead.
All six Type 45 destroyers, the backbone of Britain’s air defense fleet, had to be pulled back for emergency refits because their engines lose power in warm water. Read that again.
They were practically useless in the Red Sea because they don’t have enough missiles and you didn’t buy the anti-air computers for their deck guns.
Your last few nuclear submarine launches went plop and instead of trying again or calling the American missile manufacturer to court… you shrugged.
This is the nuclear deterrent that is supposed to be the foundation of British sovereignty, the reason Britain sits at the UN Security Council, the last credible claim to great power status. It fell in the water next to the boat.
Your ancestors circumnavigated the globe in wooden ships powered by rope and canvas. You built a billion-pound destroyer that overheats off Bahrain.
Your frigates are too few to cover your own approaches. When Russian submarines transit the English Channel, the French Navy often shadows them because the Royal Navy cannot respond in time. The French. In your Channel. Protecting you.
Nelson ain’t spinning in his tomb. He’s in the Atlantic laughing at you.
Americans patrol the Gulf you depend on for energy. Americans keep Taiwan’s chips flowing to your factories. Americans are the reason the Houthis have not fully closed the Red Sea to British-flagged shipping.
We are happy to help until now. Until Starmer tried selling off our only base in the Indian Oceans then refused to let us land planes.
OUR OWN BASE
Yes he relented but only under pressure.
We will help protect your interests but on one condition:
DO NOTHING
No selling bases
No overflight refusals
No more dock denials in Gibraltar
No crazy ROE debates
No politicians demeaning us in debates
No threating Elon Musk
And no more 134 Royal Navy Admirals in cosplaying aboard your 15 broken warships.
Tell them to hang up their uniforms and go home.
OR STAND UP, make the king overthrow parliament & fund a proper navy
Fight for your birthright or F*ck off.
Your choice.
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