UK Superpower

You could re-colonize Africa but you'd get cucked by the UN
More likely: Islamic superpower by 2030

Why? If we can't catch up and being equally as great, why sit here and watch them out perform you? I just really like the idea of "Let Britain catch up and be equally as powerful, or we fire all our ICBMs and make the planet inhabitable". And techincally the current superpower have way more to lose than us.

RULE BRITANNIA

>But whats the point slaving away at stuff and dying old, never to see the fruit of your labour? Its a waste of life to make the next generation happy. Fuck them, what about us?
This is exactly the kind of boomer mentality that got us into this mess

Right now, as a relatively rich economy in the world, we can "afford" to spend little on military, just a few percent. If the economy grows, the percentage may even reduce. This is why having % GDP targets is silly by the way, for NHS, for military, whatever.

A'll we'd have to do, that said, is bring spending in-line with (say) Israel at about 6% of current GDP and this would enable a huge step-change in our capability.

Could have had 4 carriers not 2, with 1 perma-stationed in Australia.
Could have long-range bomber capability, think Avro-730, bases on British crown protectorates or overseas territories.
Could have the money for a proper drone program.

See what I mean, we can't catch up because other countries exist and they will fight us every step of the way.

>Try to invade a country to increase British territory
The whole UN descends upon you

>Try to build a bigger army
Everyone sanctions you

The current super powers have put blockades in place to prevent us from achieving.

Ok, but wouldn't other countries see us increasing our percentage on military and to counter us they would increase as well? Leaving us in the same situation?

Second question, if this is the way forward to becoming a superpower, why aren't we doing this?

>The current super powers have put blockades in place to prevent us from achieving.
Don't you have bigger fish to fry? You are literally getting raped inside out by barbarian hordes while your politicians facilitate it and the royal family sits idly by. Your problems are all internal - Brits have completely lost their national identity, and your power structure is hell-bent on enforcing Communism-lite while cracking the whip on any whispers of right wing political movements (pic related)

If by some stroke of luck you were able to implement British nationalism, I think the UK could truly be a force to be reckoned with, but Brits have no concept of what it means to be British any more

> Its a waste of life to make the next generation happy. Fuck them, what about us?

If every Briton had thought like that in the past we'd still be living in mud houses. Your children will be the next generation. Why would you not be invested in making their lives better?

Countries can increase their spending in-step if they have the money, or take money from other programs. Take continental Europe for example. For 70 years they have spent very little on military (the USA is their military, holding back Russia) and have chosen to spend the money on social programs and free-gibs-me-dat for countries joining their EU club.

Ever wonder why 700m Europeans (including 2 nuclear powers) cannot hold back 145m Russians (economy the size of Italy)? It's because they are not serious about defence... and they are not serious because their militaries dont really matter when the USA can be counted on to pay for everything and die defending Europe.

This is why an EU army is a gigantic joke, it will only ever be for show, they wont spend the money to make it a real fighting force (and so free themselves from US). Europe will continue to be a buffer zone for when Russia heads west.