I can’t read it, but I’ll guess his pitch is “Give me Ukraine and let me do what I want”. How close am I?

It changes.

In the UK the sequence Cameron -> May -> Johnson -> Truss -> Sunak definitely had differences. They were variations on a theme sure, but there were differences.

Impeachment just opens somebody up to trial without the protections of the office. It does not remove them from office.

Probably depends on what you mean by populist.

• Enacts the popular-will of the people: sure, maybe
• Stuffed full of people who will lie to the people just to be popular: sure, maybe.

Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.

The solution will always be communication. You have to tell them that they are pushing you away; how they are hurting you; how you can’t live with the hate.

Keep away from the talking points. Talk about your feelings with them. Talk about your fear that if they continue you will lose them. If they still care about you, the thought that they are causing you pain should be horrific to them. Tell them that you fear losing them to hate.

…but keep away from the facts. Don’t try to prove them wrong. If they bring stuff up… “I don’t care if that’s true or not. It makes you angry, and full of hate, and I can’t live with that level of hate in my life”.

Share emotions. Don’t worry who’s right or wrong. It’ll be hard, but that’s the only way to start. Their rational brain is corrupted. It doesn’t work and appealing to it won’t work.

Ukrainian reactors under Kremlin control. Name a more iconic duo.

Tax credits always go into the hands of the seller even though the buyer might think they are getting money back.

Russia doesn’t have all of any of those oblasts except Crimea. Even there it’s had to withdraw all ships from Sevastopol. Russia has been halted and its men keep dying in the mud, trying to advance.

Inflation. That thing that’s at 10+% in Russia right now.

No oil. Gas.

Exporting crude on the cheap. Buying back refined products, probably at a stiff price.

Oh no!

Not to other swans generally.

A white hart.

“Roger Roger!”

Counter-counterpoint: The company is going to go bust. Get a job somewhere where you don’t do that before you’re forced to.

The second episode of TtTE famously shows The Fat Controller bricking up a tunnel with one of the engines inside because he didn’t want to come out in the rain.

No way a ChatGPt conversation about that could go into dark places.

It’s one thing to leave them in their room playing with the toys in there. He left him to play with an intellectual set of knives.

God knows what direction that ChatGPT conversation could have gone.

…because it was labelled as the reason for increasing energy prices.

Who labelled it that way? People with vested interests in the continuation of burning fossil fuels.

No, but it is losing as they throw a complete generation on to the bonfire of imperialism.