Varust, Varust, which as you all know is Icelandic for Achtung, Achtung.

Now this may be the first mention of Iceland and we have ways to make you talk, but just

to prove we're very much interested in the global picture.

Did you know, did you know that after failing to persuade the Icelandic government to join

the Allies by diplomatic means, we invaded them!

Ah! It took a grand total of 746 romoreans to make them see reason.

That's... I did know that. It's a little cheeky, isn't it?

It's a little bit. It is a little bit.

I mean, you know, it's sort of... It's really bad when the Germans do it, but when we do it, it's sort of okay.

But you know what? I always think that the little episodes like that were...

show you that the Second World War and the Seven Years War, I have a great deal in common.

Yes.

They would call a dissent, an amphibious dissent, onto somewhere that they needed to...

They just take it. They don't care what the locals thought.

And on you'd go, you know, a Churchill saw...

Of course, Churchill saw the war in those terms as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he was all for invading Norway, wasn't he, of course?

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And that was a shit show.

And then you need that Prime Minister.

Imagine someone being terrible at their job ministerial in any government Prime Minister.

It's just... Can you believe it? I mean, it's just...

It's sort of a business. It never happens.

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