Even Fewness Can Be Taken Too Far

Britain did not become top nation by fighting against heavy odds, and a flunkey at the Ministry for Wog-Bombing has warned that the greatest army in the world - the British army, for those who came in late - would be expended within six months if forced to fight a war that was not a "limited intervention" of the sort practised by the previous Labour government. After the past decade and a half of Churchillian military planning, even the legitimising coalitionism, limited casualty figures and cleanliness of mission-creep that characterised the humanitarian adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq would not be enough to balance losses on the scale of those now being inflicted in Ukraine upon the famously inept, inefficient, ill-trained, omnipresent, world-threatening Russian aggressor. On the bright side, the Trumpster and his head-tribble have at least threatened to refrain from exerting the Special Relationship; so for the first time in three generations Britain's Ministry for Wog-Bombing may be forced to live up to its euphemistically defensive designation.