British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sunday Telegraph that Russia is the “number one threat” to the United Kingdom.
“We tried to de-escalate, we tried various methods, but at the moment, until Russia changes its behavior, it is rather difficult to understand where we are going. We are regularly visited by a large number of Russian warships. We saw a Russian submarine in the Irish Sea”, – Wallace said.
British politicians and the military have repeatedly stated about the allegedly existing “Russian threat”. According to experts, such statements are trying to justify an increase in the defense budget and the expansion of the British military presence in other regions.