I expect we'll be seeing more and more calls for austerity all over western media going forward.

Nobody dares to suggest a modest 3pc haircut for the other departments so that we can double our defence budget. Yet surely anyone can see that it would be better for all the pensioners, disabled, jobless and sick people to have 97pc of what they have now, given to them by their own government, than ruin and destruction and nothing at all as a newly conquered citizen of a hostile power.

Why should you care about the very real everyday problems facing people, instead of this hypothetical problem that I'm talking about?