UK against Russia!
Roland Russia could beat the UK very rapidly! Our forces are so small I would imagine they would simply be swamped. Plus Russia is getting stronger while we get weaker every year! The defence cuts have turned our Navy into a yaht club and the RAF into a flying club! We once had the greatest Navy the world has ever seen and a superb and LARGE air force to! What do we have now 25 ships and 200 combat jets?! (Most of which are broken on the ground!) Sounds like the last days of the USSR! Oh the irony! (Even the USAF is not doing much better by the sounds of the F-15/F-16 retirment plans!) We do have a superb army which is to small but they are simply the best. Sorry for the massvie thread drift above!
I see your points about history but those events are so long ago the people the events concern are dead as are in many cases their children!
These people are from the cold war time frame. If they got into a boat tomorrow and went home good luck to them!