It all begins with an idea. This question came in from Cardiff where the enquirer was responding to his wife about the useful role of the Army.

In times of national crisis all of us, even the most wokish of us, can begin to glimpse the foothills of the way that a professional standing army can be of enormous help to the average Joe Soap in the street, and this is especially true of the petrol crisis of late where hapless British motorists have had to queue along the street for petrol and also even of the gas crisis too maybe at some later date. A HGV driver shortage in the Eu is the general reason for the fuel shortages plus unnecesary panic buying on the part of fear-laden car drivers. What of the issues surrounding gas shortages? It has been leaked, revealed by some source inside the Chinese government, maybe a female 007 in Shanghai, that as of this Autumn, China and also India have let it be known that they are willing to spend not just the old price in March 2021 of $6 a BTU or British Thermal Unit on Liquified Natural Gas or LNG, but a mind-blowing and staggering $27 per BTU, a new price they are offering in order to attract suppliers to moving the gas they hold over to China and the Pacific Rim. The hugely generous prices that the Chinese are offering for LNG means that European companies and suppliers have all parked over there and that is why there is a shortage of gas in Europe and some of the Western Isles this month of a somewhat fast disappearing winter season, what with global warming taking over and extending the historical summer from July to September then onwards from February to November. But worry not, help is not far away, for coming over the hills of the Ural mountains, Vladimir the president of a New Christian Russia has let it be known as of the 4th October 2021 that he will instruct Gazprom the Russian company to pump extra gas through the Ukraine pipeline for European Eu consumers. Russia - so nice, so forgiving, so generous, imparting a lesson in christian compassion or CFM or Compassion Focus Ministry that the Eu sorely needs to hear, especially after rudely and precipitously imposing sanctions on the mighty Christian Russia for downing a plane over the Donbass region some years ago full of christian Malaysian passengers, even though the Russians were totally innocent of that incident. Russia under Emperor Vladimir - a lesson in common sense.