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I think it's right for the UK and Europe in general to invest in defence. Europe is on its own; nobody else will defend the continent. If Europe can't defend itself then it probably won't be long until the US or Russia or China decides they'd like a piece of European land for themselves (well Russia is already trying to take European land of course).
The us has completely vassalized Europe and here you are crying about Russia.
I don't like the current governments of the US or Russia, but let's remember that Russia is currently waging an invasion of a European country while the US is not. I hope Europe can build sufficient defence capabilities to prevent further Russian aggression towards Europe, or indeed any future American aggression towards Europe.
the US doesnt need to invade europe, the US has troops stationed all over europe. US security agencies are elbow deep in european states. the US blew up nordstream to sabotage europe. the US did a coup in ukraine to get the current war going.
but sure.
Some would call thousands of foreign troops stationed in a country an occupying force.
UK is already the sixth biggest spender on defence without this latest "upgrade". Where is all the money going if - supposedly - we don't have a large standing army, much of the hardware doesn't work and it takes weeks for a military vessel to set sail? Lots of this is propaganda, of course. Maybe not upgrading all the nukes at a cost of £63 billion might shift some of the money? Maybe asking WHO is being defended would be a good starting point? (And it aint the ordinary UK citizen.)