to be fair, if i were the little lordling running a troubled, fragmenting island and visiting a global superpower, i would make some kind of announcement about how i'm going over there and really going to stick it to those motherfuckers, expecting to be met with throngs of hooting idiots below the parapet.
and then, once over there and behind closed doors i would tell them they can piss on me for $100 and if they want to kiss me on the lips its $150.
to be fair, if i were the little lordling running a troubled, fragmenting island and visiting a global superpower, i would make some kind of announcement about how i'm going over there and really going to stick it to those motherfuckers, expecting to be met with throngs of hooting idiots below the parapet.
and then, once over there and behind closed doors i would tell them they can piss on me for $100 and if they want to kiss me on the lips its $150.
that's just old school statecraft.