P.S. If you are already familiar with the Duchy, then you are truly a connoisseur of fine cinema.
Well, I mean, they declared war on us, so ...
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: We must declare war on the United States.
Benter: But we can never win such a war!
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: Of course not, but we could win the peace. I’ve given this a lot of thought gentlemen and I’m perfectly positive that I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive anything. There isn’t a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated.
10 years before The Mouse that Roared was another comic gem on a similar theme, Passport to Pimlico.