What Armed Forces Are For

To prevent wars.

By deterring them.

And, of course, to fight them if anyone nevertheless does start them against us.

The point of Armed Forces is not to be sent, by those who would never dream of sending themselves or their families, to war against people who pose no threat whatever to us, and might even be our more natural allies than the alternatives in their own countries.

Such less natural allies (to say the very least) include those who have taken over Iraq since the removal of Saddam Hussein, witting or unwitting Protector of the Church.

And they include either the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or the National Bolsheviks, the only alternatives to Putin and Medvedev, guardians of Biblical-Classical civilisation and now even funders of the building of Catholic churches (initially in Tartarstan, but the line has been crossed).