If they can't be @rsed to defend themselves, why should we?
Thinking like an American are you?
Remember. a US President reminding NATO Members about the need to meet their Treaty obligations re spending and how ya'll howled, ranted, and whined about that?
Seems the Man was right and his critics not so right.
Face it....the UK Military is short handed, under funded, and downsized to the extent it has become in-effective as a result.
In some things size, numbers, and capability become the difference between victory and defeat.
Quality absent the rest cannot achieve victory.
What ever you must not do is believe your own propaganda....look to history for proof of that....to include recent history as Russia runs up on the rocks of reality in its War in Ukraine.