According to foreign media reports, British Prime Minister Sunak suddenly announced that the UK will increase its defense budget significantly in the next few years, with an annual increase of 76 billion pounds, which will continue until 2030, and the total cost of the national defense budget will reach 2.5% of the national GDP. This news has attracted widespread attention at home and abroad, and this move by the British is undoubtedly a declaration that they will enter a state of war.
It is worth mentioning that Sunak specifically mentioned in his speech that he would list China as an authoritarian country, and criticized the current Sino-Russian relations and Sino-Russian trade.
In response to the British Prime Minister's groundless accusations, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the UK said in an interview with reporters that this is just an excuse for Britain to increase its military budget!
So why did Britain make this announcement so suddenly, what does it mean behind the increase in the UK's defense budget, and what kind of information can we take from it?
Britain has significantly increased its defense budget!
Since announcing its exit from the European Union, Britain's GDP is beginning to decline at a rate of a few tenths of a percent per year, although this is not very large, but it is still declining steadily.
Although Britain is still the sixth largest economy in the world, Britain's GDP has been surpassed by its own colony, India, which is unacceptable to the proud British!
In the two years of the epidemic, the inflation rate in the UK reached more than 10%, although the inflation rate in the UK has returned to normal under the adjustment of various policies in the past two years, but it has also been achieved with high interest.
Just last year, the UK's debt reached 250 million pounds, exceeding its annual GDP for the first time, and the British government and public sector borrowing ratio remained high, and the entire British economy was in a mess!
When the situation in Britain was bad, the two little brothers Scotland and Northern Ireland were fighting for independence and demanding to leave the United Kingdom, and it was such a Britain that was in the same internal and external troubles as the United States announced a substantial increase in its military budget at this time!
In an interview with reporters, Sunak revealed that the main thing that Britain wants to do in increasing its military budget is to restart its own defense industry, which will play a vital role in the future building of the British army.
In fact, judging from the current situation of Britain, it is difficult for them to make any splash if they want to do this, and it is difficult to make any splash when all the military budget is used today, after all, Britain has become a problem with even the most basic production and maintenance of fighters, and Britain's aircraft carriers have to borrow fighter jets from the United States when they go out to perform tasks.
Many British military enterprises have closed down one after another in the past few decades, and now a large number of British military equipment has completely lost its combat effectiveness due to disrepair!
What Britain needs to restore these dilapidated military industrial enterprises is an astronomical amount of military spending, and judging by the magnitude of the increase in British military spending, the military budget they have increased is simply not enough!
The second expenditure item of the British military budget is to promote the modernization of military equipment, which accounts for at least 5 percent of Britain's military spending, and Britain is even trying to develop a new generation of fighter jets! Let's just take a look at this, not to mention whether the annual increase of 75 billion pounds is enough to develop fighter jets, and the equipment renewal alone is enough to drag down the British Empire!
The third point is still the cliché of increasing the military budget to aid Ukraine! There is nothing else to say about this, but here Britain uses the phrase that Ukraine's security is Britain's security to emphasize their determination to provide military aid to Ukraine!
What is the intention of the UK to increase its military budget?
Sunak's sudden announcement of an increase in the budget can be said to have surprised many people's expectations, after all, Britain, as a once declining empire, has been silent in military and other aspects for a long time, and they suddenly want to strengthen their military strength, there must be a demon when something goes wrong!
In fact, the main reason why Britain did this was because of the current complex world situation, which made the former empire feel that they were not as safe as they thought.
Under the circumstance that the comprehensive national strength of the United States has declined sharply, the rise of China and Russia's courageous counterattack are likely to bring the current world pattern into a state of bipolar confrontation again, which is definitely not a good phenomenon for Britain, which has always been accustomed to living a comfortable life!
After the United States has been busy confronting China and devoting all its energy to the Asia-Pacific region, Britain's own homeland security needs to be guarded by themselves, which makes them feel extremely insecure when they have been protected under the wing of the United States!
In addition, after the United States withdrew most of its military strength from Europe, Russia's deterrence of the entire European Union is gradually increasing, and in order to confront the powerful Russia, Britain must have an army with modern combat effectiveness!
In addition, after the United States withdrew from Europe, Europe is now in urgent need of a country that can lead everyone to unite against Russia.
But now the strength of the British and French armies is not a little worse than that of the British, and they can only rely on spending on military expenses in the hope of improving the combat effectiveness of their armies and their influence in Europe in the short term, otherwise it will be difficult for Britain to win in the competition with France!
Therefore, the purpose of Britain's increase in military spending is complex and diverse, but it is undoubtedly a fool's dream for Britain to rely on these few years and hundreds of billions of pounds of military spending to revitalize the army!