Now It Becomes A Circus.

Sir Admiral Tony Radakin, who is the Chief of Defense Staff of what passes in UK for Armed Forces, obviously has serious coping issues, apart from having other purely military-academic issues, considering the fact that the guy is a... lawyer by education and has about zero STEM background imperative for modern staff officers. But I'll let it slide for now. Radakin went on record today:

Russia's military is greatly diminished in Ukraine, according to Britain's defense chief. "Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army," Admiral Tony Radakin said Tuesday during a parliamentary hearing. Radakin, who is the formal head of the U.K.'s armed forces and holds the title of chief of the Defense Staff, also described Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as "a catastrophic failure" and Russia's forces as too "weak" to launch their own counteroffensive.

What can I say, if British military hasn't been humiliated enough before, now, when its big honcho literally pulls "numbers" out of his ass for the benefit of creeps from Financial Times, it surely makes it look down right stupid. They still cannot come to grips in London that they have nothing left but drab facade of the second tier economy and totalitarian state. Russian MoD reacted with some seriously funny mocking. I reproduce full response by Russian MoD here, from their official TG Channel (in Russian):

Опубликованные FT оценки британского адмирала Радакина потерь российской бронетехники, да вкупе еще и с якобы утратой российскими вооруженными силами «половины своей боеспособности» обескураживают вселенским масштабом вранья.

▫️ И всё это на фоне стенаний других британских военачальников, и даже министра Бена Уоллеса, о тотальном опустошении собственных запасов оружия и сотнях единиц техники, отправленных для украинского «контрнаступа», но «неожиданно» сгоревших, едва соприкоснувшись с якобы «потерявшей боеспособность» российской армией.

▫️ Да и перехваленные крылатые ракеты Storm Shadow всё чаще попадают по объектам гражданской инфраструктуры, к сожалению, вызывая жертвы среди мирного населения. Либо падают плашмя, не разрываясь, и пугают своими «ударами» лишь степных тушканов.

▫️ Весь этот поставленный киевскому режиму британский металлолом после переплавки ещё послужит новым российскими регионам неплохим сырьем в ходе восстановительных работ. А А выковырянные из ракет микросхемы, вероятно, можно будет вставить в российские «стиральные машинки», о чем не так давно рассказывала сказки Урсула фон дер Ляйен.

▫️ Логика и цели пропагандистских заявлений адмирала Радакина в британском парламенте очевидны, – выбить деньги из оскудевшего бюджета на закупку нового вооружения для армии заместо хлама, отправляемого на Украину.

▫️ Проблема лишь одна – как убедить своих налогоплательщиков, что военные поставки Киеву имеют хоть какой-то смысл и для чего-то пригодились.

▫️ В отсутствие каких-либо результатов украинской армии на поле боя, а теперь уже все более ясно – даже их перспектив, остаётся только фантазировать об «утрате боеспособности» российской армии…

▫️ Ну и самое главное – британский штаб обороны давно уже переквалифицировался из органа стратегического анализа и планирования в нештатный филиал «Би-Би-Си». С таким аналитическими способностями, как у адмирала Радакина, у обороны Соединенного Королевства и фута не будет под килем.  

Translation: The estimates published by the British Admiral Radakin of the losses of Russian armored vehicles, and coupled with the alleged loss of “half of their combat capability” by the Russian armed forces, discourage by the universal scale of lies. ▫️ And all this against the background of the lamentations of other British military leaders, and even Minister Ben Wallace, about the total devastation of their own stockpiles of weapons and hundreds of pieces of equipment sent for the Ukrainian “counterattack”, but “unexpectedly” burned down, barely coming into contact with the allegedly “lost combat capability” of the Russian army. ▫️ Yes, and the over-hyped Storm Shadow cruise missiles are increasingly hitting civilian infrastructure, unfortunately, causing casualties among the civilian population. Or they fall flat, without bursting, and scare only the steppe jerboas with their "blows". ▫️ All this British scrap metal supplied to the Kyiv regime, after being melted down, will still serve as good raw materials for the new Russian regions in the course of restoration work. And microchips plucked out of missiles can probably be inserted into Russian “washing machines”, as Ursula von der Leyen told fairy tales not so long ago. ▫️ The logic and goals of Admiral Radakin's propaganda statements in the British Parliament are obvious - to knock money out of the impoverished budget for the purchase of new weapons for the army instead of the trash sent to Ukraine. ▫️ There is only one problem - how to convince your taxpayers that military supplies to Kyiv make at least some sense and come in handy for something. ▫️ In the absence of any results of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield, and now it is more and more clear - even their prospects, one can only fantasize about the "loss of combat capability" of the Russian army... ▫️ Well, and most importantly, the British Defense Headquarters has long been retrained from a body of strategic analysis and planning into a freelance affiliate of the BBC. With such analytical skills as Admiral Radakin, the defense of the United Kingdom will not have a foot under the keel.

UK political system is cooked, because it now operates on the level of the worst of the third world corrupt regimes and the same could be stated about EU as a whole and the US, which in essence is ungovernable. A single word--pathetic. And yes, Western military "education" is toast and the signs of that are everywhere--they cannot even come up with semi-believable military lie.