[henkster]

The last of Germany’s fighting men died around 1945.

That applies throughout much of Western Europe. If the real German men were all killed at Stalingrad, so too were the French at Verdun. Von Falkenhayn's meat-mincing machine did exactly what was intended; it bled the French white and France has never recovered. It was just about the same with the British with the Somme and Ypres, although it took the second war to finish them off.

Western Europe simply will not fight to defend itself. Nor does it even admit that it is under attack. In fact they aren't even capable of the most basic of preservation instincts: breeding. And so Western Europe, as we once knew it, is really already dead.

[Cronos]

The British army was always weak, over the centuries -- EXCEPT with the presence of allies. At Agincourt the English had local allies (arguably the battle was between the Angevins and the Capets more than between nations

in the Napoleonic wars, the English formed numerous coalitions and the last (the 8th?) finally won

Western Europe can change - remove the niceities of life and a society can turn war-like in a generation.