British warships lack firepower to attack Houthi land targets
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  • redtea
    16·
    10 months ago

    Does Britain have any forests left? They could build trebuchets and catapults if they do. No steel for the big arrow tips but maybe brass would do for the fixings, and rocks for the projectiles.

    Turns out you don’t even need a nuclear war for the next world war to be fought with sticks and stones. You just need to let capitalists do their thing and voila.

    • Shrike502
      12·
      10 months ago

      They’d need lumberjacks for woodcutting, and carpenters for making trebuchets. Judging by UK’s decision to import Polish workers (for apple gathering) in the middle of pandemic-inspired border closure… Well, I don’t think trebuchets are an option

      • redtea
        11·
        10 months ago

        Well, they could throw apples instead. But only the ones that fall on the floor after a good storm, if the English have forgotten how to get the apples off the trees. They can fight the pigs for the good ones.

    • Idliketothinkimsmart
      5·
      9 months ago

      They’d probably need some steel parts, but they’re no longer gonna be able to produce their own steel 🤭

  • appel@whiskers.bim.boats
    11·
    9 months ago

    No Mr Parry, no one is going to be saying “oh f—, it’s the Brits!”. No one has said that for several hundred years, and they won’t be saying it until the state of britain no longer exists. Even though it seems funny, I know this is going to mean the govt begins to increase defence spending and carving out even more from public services, and the people are going to pay for it. Public services in the UK are already completely decrepit. They need to strike the uk while it is down.