>He said that China and the world don't see the UK as a big player anymore. Which is true.

So what? You can see people however you want, but you still have to live with them in your world and they have a vote on what happens next. This is what Russia discovered in Ukraine, and the USA in Iraq before it. China may want to boss everyone in the world, but it can't - it can't have everything it's own way and run the world as a Marxist Leninist 1984 style nightmare, we won't allow it.

>UK has it's legacy advantages, UN permanent seat, nuclear weapons etc but the empire is long gone and it grows weaker by the year.

Well after WW2 we had 270% GDP to debt ratio and the country was bombed into bits. British industry had retooled for a war economy and there was no capital to retool meaning that the fundamental disadvantages for industries like shipbuilding where British yards were located in the wrong places on the wrong rivers became sharply plagent. I grew up in the 1970's and there were still bomb sites in London and Portsmouth then. If that was a legacy then you can keep it.

>After the war, Germany was at its lowest point and the UK squandered it's lead and fell below Germany.

I agree, we should have kept Germany as an agrarian low population country so as to dominate continental europe... oh no, wait: I just realised! That would be both evil and stupid! Instead we should have Germany develop into a liberal democracy full of enlightened well educated Germans and make sure to be good friends with them so that we can work together in the world to shape it for the common good.

>All of Europe + USA failed to bring Russia to it's knees no matter what they tried.

Or we were trying the "Germany mark 2" move, but the Russians are so stupid that they invaded Ukraine and manged to ruin themselves for the rest of the 21st century? Time will tell. Perhaps ask the guys with no hands and faces begging on the Moscow underground what they think?

>The world is changing and in the new world order UK is slipping down the ladder.

For sure, but who cares? No one serious in the UK wants to be in charge of the world and frankly that's been the case since about 1919.

What we want is to sit on our little island with our nice wind turbines and good internet and make interesting things while enjoying our gardens. I think that fundamentally that's what 99% of the worlds population would like to do but there's 1% playing "lets kill the XYZ" or "I am due the respect and tribute of the people of YZX" as if this was 1850 and no one has nuclear weapons.