Subject: Re: The state of the Royal Navy
You should also ask it about effective tax rates.

If the UK needs to raise taxes
To meet their defense obligations (them and the rest of our NATO “allies”) that’s a “them” problem. Not an us problem.

Regardless, this thread should help drive home the point about how the NATO armies and Navies are 1) shells of their former selves 2) incapable of doing even simple jobs and 3) decades away from relevance.