Russian media mocks "Little Britain" after UK's Trident missile failure

[Steven P. Administrators]

 

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The failed test of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has led to a wave of ridicule in global media.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was among those on board the HMS Vanguard when the incident happened off the coast of Florida last month.

After news of the failed test leaked, Russian media wasted little time in mocking the UK over the incident.

"Nobody was hurt, apart from the Royal Navy's reputation," said Rossiya 1's main news bulletin on Wednesday.

The host of the top TV channel's 60 Minutes talk show, Olga Skabeyeva, said earlier in the day that "an attempt by the Royal Navy of formerly Great Britain - now we call it little Britain - to demonstrate its power ended in failure".

And Alexander Kots, the star war correspondent of Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, said on his Telegram channel that the incident "once again underscores that Great Britain has finally lost its status of 'ruler of the waves'".

Source & image: BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68369556

A hundred years ago, the UK was regarded as an Empire with the most feared Navy in the world (having just obliterated the German Navy in WW1). How relatively quickly things can change eh? I think a lot of people regard the UK on its own as weak, without the backing of the U.S. or European allies, however it (and its people) have chosen the path of isolationist in the last couple of decades, just like Trump's Republican Party and supporters.

[Astra.Xtreme]

Friendly suggestion:  Don't whine about Trump or the US republican party in a topic that has absolutely nothing to do with it.  Keep that trash in its own thread where it belongs.

On topic, nobody in the western world gives one damn what Russia or its crooked media thinks.  One must wonder if those media hosts have to say those things or else risk "disappearing".

[Jim K Global Moderator]

On 22/02/2024 at 13:45, Steven P. said:

 

Source & image: BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68369556

A hundred years ago, the UK was regarded as an Empire with the most feared Navy in the world (having just obliterated the German Navy in WW1). How relatively quickly things can change eh? I think a lot of people regard the UK on its own as weak, without the backing of the U.S. or European allies, however it (and its people) have chosen the path of isolationist in the last couple of decades, just like Trump's Republican Party and supporters.

Eh?  Russia mocking the British Navy... 🤡

[Max Veteran]

Bit embarrassing for us, but they mock us just as we mock them. Their amazing unstoppable 'best in the world' superpower military failed to take Kyiv. That's pretty embarrassing.

[Slugsie]

Maybe the second best military in Ukraine should probably keep quiet.

[FloatingFatMan]

Eh, who needs nukes? We have the SAS.

 

[+Matthew S. Subscriber²]

On 22/02/2024 at 17:22, FloatingFatMan said:

Eh, who needs nukes? We have the SAS.

 

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[xpablo]

Putin & his cronies are just upset that Russia is no longer the feared Empire the Soviet Union once was, This is why he's trying to reclaim the Soviet empire. Eventually Russia will decline further into despair, with a declining population.

As a majority of males are sacrificed fighting in their dictator's war. Eventually China will expand into Russia, in about a hundred years or so.

[FloatingFatMan]

On 22/02/2024 at 23:30, xpablo said:

As a majority of males are sacrificed fighting in their dictator's war. Eventually China will expand into Russia, in about a hundred years or so.

You're assuming China will have any people left in a hundred years or so.  Their one child policy has left devastating consequences on their population.