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DanieRains

(4,619 posts) Mon Jan 24, 2022, 07:02 PM Jan 2022

Couldn't hurt your dying career. Might keep someone from starting a war though. BTW you owe us one. We never burned Parliment.

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Hey Boris Put 200,000 Troops In Kiev (Original Post) DanieRains Jan 2022 OP

The UK has about 153K active and 46K reserve personnel Klaralven Jan 2022 #1

That's the entire armed forces. Voltaire2 Jan 2022 #3

UK Army 80,000 total. Voltaire2 Jan 2022 #2

They could always augment it with British soccer fans... Klaralven Jan 2022 #4

That would work. Voltaire2 Jan 2022 #5

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1. The UK has about 153K active and 46K reserve personnel

Mon Jan 24, 2022, 07:29 PM

Jan 2022

So they are about a thousand short of 200 K. And I'd bet you can't get a lot of them to leave Whitehall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Armed_Forces#Personnel