17:31
It is a difficult balancing act.
Sometimes it gets too hateful, sometimes too cheerful, sometimes too dry, but overall this is one of the few forums that has both been on point and calm.
Right now there are more limericks than analyses and I am hugely fascinated that this is something so many take so seriously 😀
The only thing you must not do, or you can but you won’t survive many minutes, is to waver or interpret something in Russia’s favor.
Then the thread wakes up like a black bear from its den to rock music.
18:19
It will be infinitely exciting to see the Russian leadership’s reaction to Ramstein when they release all the equipment. 40 countries participating…
Right now they are doing rounds in the media saying they are misunderstood and that it is cheating that the West is helping.
Not really a red line except something about mobilization.
20:55
A last squirm from the eel.
https://twitter.com/noelreports/status/1615796183988936705?s=46&t=0W3v6_xgBiOaAhGDnmTbtg
12:53
A Scot at the university in Edinburgh was going to Sweden in the summer and wanted to learn pickup lines all spring.
We saw our chance and this was before computers, and foolishly he believed us Swedes.
He was as angry as a bee in the autumn because he had approached his hopefully future wife with a storm of words that would have made Ron Jeremy blush, and it got quite icy.
You can’t do it any longer with all smartphones.