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Second most powerful country in the world? Powerful self-own.
Imagine bragging about being the second best at anything, Pepsi doesn't call itself the second most popular cola drink in their ads.
They're objectively not even the second most powerful country in Europe if you count Russia.
Germany and France too. Gonna fall behind Italy and Turkey soonish if they don't shape up (they won't)
Yeah that's what I meant. I wouldn't call Germany stronger than the UK since they don't have their own nukes, but I'd definitely say France is a stronger world power than the UK and still maintains hegemony through neocolonialism, while the UK barely has any colonies/neo-colonies left.
Germany is less powerful in terms of raw strength but more powerful in economy and soft power. I mean they're basically leader of the EU and the manufacturing engine of Europe with the the biggest GDP by far, TERF island has nothing going for it now.
Also, 
has around the same number of active military members and has been increasing their military budget to be around the same as the UK
Also, has around the same number of active military members and has been increasing their military budget to be around the same as the UK
This isn't gonna go anywhere as far as power goes, it's just throwing money into the bottomless pit. There's no more actual structure to handle this money in any way that would yield results.
The Bundeswehr was never that far behind in budget compared to some other nations with way more capable armed forces and all the money in the world is not going to fix this. About a decade of McKinsey consultants telling the Bundeswehr to send their paid soldiers home and then hire some minimum wage civilian to guard bases, presumably it makes sense on an excel spreadsheet, has left that entire organisations in absolute disarray compared to other western forces, to which I say; critical support for McKinsey for doing the best job at demilitarizing germany after the allies
Are they saying they're more powerful than China? Fucking joke lmao they barely crack the top ten atp
now i'm craving some kind of modern naval battle scenario game and want this as the "fleet matchup" screen
Your rivers, full of shit.
Wait is he seriously doing the Jobs bit of a fruit cleanse to treat cancer? We LITERALLY have the internet and you can google what happened to Steve Jobs for free and yet here we are.
Pretty sure he's never used the internet, he has servants to do that for him.
So critical support to the servants, I guess.
"it worked great for steve jobs!"
Smh Steve just didn't drink enough juice. The NHS must fund the king's medically necessary bottles of orange juice from whole foods.
It's tough for him to use a keyboard with his giant Italian sausage fingers
My man's hands looking like bunches of pink bananas.
He tried googling Steve Jobs but all he got were a bunch of memes telling him to ligma balls, proving once again that posting is praxis 
While it's a dumb shit approach to treating cancer, he's old. If he wants to do stupid shit for his health, let him do it.
Now that I'm done humanizing a POS monarch, RIP BOZO. Your death will be deserved.
He's also a big fan of homeopathy
did they include a picture of an american jet? 
Your plan for reelection is to murder trans people and badgers to distract from your cartoonish incompetence, you fucking devil.
The UK is as strong as ever
Britain is the second most powerful country in the world
"the sun never sets on the british empire, but only because we were never that strong to begin with"
You do not produce steel
It rules that the king will die and seemingly in a funny way
How long before there's a four year old king/queen of Britain?
A while. Georgie is 11 now, and I assume knows his colours at this age. So he's already very well-suited to implementing the TERF Empire's will.
I’ve always thought King Charles should be more like Steve Jobs
Fortunes do change fast in a century. Going from decrying the so-called "Sick Man" of Europe to becoming one. History never lacks those karmic ironies.
It would be funny if i didn't live here
I assume this post was stolen from some 13yo's goofy school project about political propaganda.
Their monarch will die again soon.
And it shall be a glorious day for England, and therefore the world.
"Britannia Rules the Waves!" king's carcass getting yeeted from the cliffs of Dover
Don't forget bedbug plague
building the medieval socialist utopia out of News from Nowhere because you fucked up your economy so bad you had to abandon industrial civilization
Really looking forward to visiting the UK in ten years or so.
Who does Number 2 work for
my cousin is taking nothing but cherry juice for his hereditary case of gout and refusing to go to the doctor, but he's a rural slumlord not fuckin royalty
when was the last time britain actually was the second most powerful country in the world? pre-wwi?
they were like number 1 till 1940 then got kicked to number 3 and then like number 5 after the suez crisis
i figured that since they lost their major holdings in SE asia and their foothold in europe so quickly during the war they must have been in decline for some time before the war started, but i'm not an expert and measuring things like "most powerful" countries are always going to be basically hypotheticals anyways imo
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Your president wasn't elected by you
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