All those things put together wouldn't actually amount to all that much, even if it all had to be paid for. The kind of money one rich individual could put up. And there are quite a few of those around. The Sunday Times has no difficulty in drawing up an annual list of 1,000 people in Britain alone with more than £35 million to their name.

In terms of what it would cost to carry out a conventional war, with jet fighters and tanks and so forth, it'd be small change. One Mirage jet fighter, for example, runs to $60 million. All the costs Teribus puts in there would only come to a fraction of that.