This one's rather newer. It happens to concern another old bat but this time she's in a party, talking to foreign dignitaries and seeking attention, while the real star of the show, whose mother happens to be Irish, is worrying his hair white. Some details may not be the same as the original one.
The old bat brings up a situation just across the sea. There's terrorists trying to take over a country which just happens to have oil. It turns out the people currently running the country are pretty harsh on treasonous people, massacring anyone related to the terrorists in an attempt to intimidate them. Old bat claims massacring terrorist relatives is worse than treason. So much worse that she wants to send some weapons to the terrorists so that they can stand some chance in their dispute. So, so much worse that she wants the folks at the party to send their soldiers to make the terrorists win their dispute.
Her home country has a lot of money, a lot of contacts, a lot of mercenaries and followers, and losing business with her country, losing her friendship, getting her negative attention would mean a drop in living standards, maybe poverty for smaller countries, and maybe if you have domestic issues she'll be more likely to gossip badly about it. So a lot of the smaller countries are obliged to support her motion. Particularly those smaller countries bordering on some nasty neighbours for whatever reason. A lot of those small countries would have long since been annexed if it wasn't for the armed support provided by the old bat's home country.
Only two countries can afford to veto the motion. They say that they'd rather be neutral and not do anything.
The old bat then goes around saying that being neutral's the same as supplying weapons and sending troops to support the people currently fighting the terrorists. She's saying there's no such thing as a neutral bystander to a conflict, and that she is offended by those two countries.
Well let us wish the old bat all the best when she has domestic issues and has to take sides. Let us wish her all the best in deciding whether her raped daughters can abort her bastard grandchildren, for starters. The situation looks pretty shit whichever side she says is black and which as white. Wish her all the best, sincerely. Anyone caught between Scylla and Charybdis must be feeling the pinch. Maybe she's just given up trying to find the safe middle path between the two. Maybe there is none: you can hardly half-abort a child. Maybe the choice has to be arbitrary if the two options are equally shit. Maybe she should just stay out of it and let her daughters decide, which is a possible middle ground - but then she'd be a neutral bystander and she'd rather stand her ground for something. She's the type of old bat from a country that had a history of getting stuck deep into the mud after sitting on the fence for decades trying to stay clean, and then having shit thrown right into her clean Pearl Harbour. Sooner or later, a fence-sitter tends to occasionally get hit by shit-throwers on both sides of the paddock. To take it, or to jump right deep into the mud hunting for potential future shit-throwers to stop them from developing and multiplying? Any way it goes, it's pretty crap to have to deal with.
Let's set up our fence to rest on on high middle ground, well above those shitty paddocks full of shit, to minimise the chances of having to drop our sons and daughters into shit.
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