Not for nothing here ... but it appears that Joker "put up" and no one showed to "shut him up" ...
I have seen multiple posts, from multiple people, on opposing countries that all he and his squaddies could do was NOE missions and were afraid to meet "head on" and couldn't pull it of when met "head on" ... so he decided to take on the challenge and put his money where his mouth was and it appears as tho some serious wussification befell those who were going to be attacked ... even with sufficient warning.
Waaaaaaa .... 4 on 1 ... It's not his fault that no one wanted to mix it up, especially after being forewarned.
If he announced his intentions on 200 and whomever and whatever he said they were going to attack ... the responsibility of mustering a counter force was the responsibility of that country. Is there not another "large" squad within the Rooks that could rally to the call ? ... or were they too busy hording the crap out of some other opposing base. I would have thought that with all the crap that people threw at Joker and his crew and they now had the opportunity to "smack" them down like a red-headed stepchild that there weren't at least 40-50 people flying straight at them.
As I have stated in other threads like this ... back in the day when I flew with the MAW, if we were attacking some base, and the call came out on country channel or even over the "All" channel that the AKs were attacking a field ... we dropped everything and anything we were doing to spoil their attempt(s). Why ? ... because we were the only squad on the Knights that could actually meet them head on head, plane for plane, and defeat their attack ... we thrived on being the "watchdog" for the Knights and thrived even more on mixing it up with the AKs and coming out on top.
What each country needs is a "watchdog" squad who is not afraid to mix it up with the likes of the Joker's Jokers ... and it appears that that is not the case ... or at least it wasn't that night.
It will be interesting to see what happens when they take it to the Knights.