LOL the "nation of shopkeepers" has pretty good record of kicking their European enemies' behinds.
Most of the shopkeepers there today are expats from somewhere else and big box just in time inventory conglomerates. See not the forest for the trees my FRiend. What do they make today. What are their resources accessible? How many munitions can they make, beg, borrow or steal? Defense minister said they would be out of ammunition in a day if they fought the Ruskies. It is a chihuahua barking at a bear.
Perfidious Albion indeed. Bunch of damned Pecksniffians. Their mouths are going to overload their asses in this. Holier than thou bunch of “twunts”. Look it up.
The last euro behind your shopkeepers kicked was pre 1914. So…