We were all grateful at the time if you remember as it seemed that a common enemy could perhaps be a uniting force for humanity after all. However, and as some of you may have heard already, after clearing out large areas of countryside they took up defensive positions and dug in.

The mainly Arab branch of the alliance were, from the reports we’ve gathered, holding strategic positions in Greece, the Balkans and along the eastern coast and north of Italy while the Russian army swept through the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.

As a response the earlier listed countries sent their fleets as a show of force to the area. The UK sent what ships it could spare as their eastern and northern flanks were an