take away all the money made from selling tyrants guns and fiddling money, how big a cheese is england then?
pinpoint that, and the anglo disease as model gets its legs shot out from under it.
that's why i think it's pointless trying to make europe a military superpower, it would suck so much out of the often failing social services, it's be a slow trainwreck. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~