[the scotsman]

I hope the UK are not in that ‘not worth a damn list’.

[tom h]

"None of [the formerly great nations of Europe] has a military worth a d-mn and they therefore cannot fight to save their lives. "

"I hope the UK are not in that ‘not worth a damn list’."

I was perhaps a bit hasty with my words. The UK is our partner and their troops as fearless as ever, but your military has shrunk so as to be almost unrecognizable. Could the UK sustain a long way against a determined enemy?

As for the other countries with formerly great military reputations -- Norway, Germany, France -- I expect that all the men in their armed forces have been so emasculated that they would surrender before firing a shot.

Kinda reminds me of that old joke from World War II: "How do you spot a French rifle? Never been fired and only dropped once."