Random Kick Bruises Poodle

Various factions of the British Rah-Rah Party have been squealing with righteous indignation over the latest diplomatic intervention by the Trumpster's assassination deterrent. Despite being the sort of statesman who proclaims Team Starmer an Islamist régime, the JD has been tactless enough to suggest that a proposed Anglo-French military force in Ukraine would constitute no more than "20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years." A spokesbeing for Team Starmer noted that British forces have so fought wars by assisting in recent imperial adventures; while the Conservatives and Deputy Conservatives erupted in patriotic fury at the JD's lack of reverence for America's most sycophantic client state. The JD in turn accused his accusers of being "absurdly dishonest" in assuming that, by disparaging the prospective military force, he had thereby disparaged the poppy-fodder that would compose it. Self-evidently, the JD's disparagement was directed purely at those many random countries which are volunteering support without possessing the capacity to provide meaningful guardianship for Ukraine's plucky little minerals.