Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Can we have some funding from somewhere please.....?"
Where from? The country has the highest level of taxation for donkey's years - all the doctors will have to be bought off, the T31 program now needs more money................ where do you suggest they get the cash?
Every country has financial issues, thats the way it is. But if you can't protect your country then all of the other investments made in your people and infrastructure arent worth a dime.
Putin has been empowered by the arms reductions that all Western countries have made over the years and now those countries are burning through those savings with a proxy war.
Defence isnt cheap, but we cant do without it.