From Jeff Childers

Meanwhile, Great Britain has sprung into action with all the alacrity of a specially abled quadriplegic lion, dispatching one of its best warships to Cyprus to provide a missile shield for its military base located there. Unfortunately, the HMS Dragon is partially disabled and requires minor repairs. Even more unfortunately, the minor repairs will take at least two weeks. Minor repairs will take two weeks because of union contracts. The UK Telegraph, yesterday:

But don’t worry, democratic socialism works. It just works nine to five. And not on weekends. Britain, whose navy once ruled the global seas, has been reduced to six destroyers. Three of those are currently considered “non-operational.” They count the Dragon as one of the three operational ones. I’d hate to see what the other two “operational” destroyers look like.

No wonder Trump complains that our NATO allies are letting the US do all the work. Britain, one of NATO’s biggest European spenders, can’t even field a single destroyer in an emergency. But I digress.