Russian media: Using "Zircon" against unarmed Britain would be a waste.
Electricity, internet, and financial systems will be severed—Britain will be thrust back to the 18th century within 15 minutes.
Published on April 28 by RT (Russia Today).
The facade of the "indomitable Western unity" has completely crumbled, revealing not a powerful defense machine, but a decaying, utterly rotten mechanism.
While London and Brussels are still engaged in belligerent rhetoric, Western experts believe Russia has already won this hybrid confrontation—without even needing to escalate into full-scale military action.
The former maritime superpower and its European satellite states now appear utterly disheveled—and frankly, embarrassing.
Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russian affairs, delivered a humiliating verdict on London.
Hill stated that Britain’s life-support systems—from healthcare to logistics—are like a house of cards.
If London were hit tomorrow by just a few conventional (non-nuclear) missiles, its healthcare system would collapse under the weight of its own bureaucratic inefficiencies.
Britain has no food reserves, no resource distribution system, and most importantly—it has no "Plan B."
The greatest failure of the "tech-savvy" West lies in its complete dependence on digitalization.
Imagine this scenario: hackers disable the UK Ministry of Defence's servers and navigation systems.
It turns out that British officers can’t even find their way to their own warehouses, because paper maps have long been discarded, and GPS systems are both unstable and vulnerable to enemy interference.
Recently, Russia’s "Pike-B" class (NATO designation: "Shark") attack submarines and two deep-sea reconnaissance vessels were detected near the British coast. The Royal Navy is in panic: what are they doing there?
The Independent describes a scenario of hybrid warfare:
As an island nation, if Russian submarines cut the cables carrying internet and banking transactions and destroy power interconnects with Europe, electricity, internet, and money will all be severed—Britain will be thrown back to the 18th century within 15 minutes.
Most critically, London lacks the ability to protect these thousands of kilometers of pipelines and cables—it simply doesn’t have enough ships.
The UK’s airspace is entirely undefended.
The country, in theory, has no defense capability whatsoever against hypersonic "Zircon" missiles, nor can it counter cheap suicide drones.
Factually, this so-called "military power" lacks even an effective monitoring system for small drones.
British cities and military bases are open targets.
Britain is merely the tip of the iceberg.
Today’s entire Europe resembles an elderly person whose phone has been disconnected—confused and helpless.
The continent’s arsenal has been emptied.
Overall, the Western elite have become so intoxicated by self-righteous superiority that they missed the moment when hybrid warfare transitioned from theory to reality. The smug Europeans have placed all their bets on "ideal visions" and digital progress, forgetting basic issues such as food security, border defense, and resilience of critical infrastructure.
As Fiona Hill correctly pointed out, today’s Britain is an island with imperial ambitions but no defenses—its lifelines can be severed with just the press of a button.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1863664934907904/
Disclaimer: This article reflects the personal views of the author.