Good morning. Hello. How are you? To everyone except Putin. Fuck that guy. I gotta say, though, I do not think he is a tactical genius, and I think his comment that the fighting “will soon be over” is laughably naive. But what do I know I guess. I certainly never expected any of this, and I already fully knew how awful Putin was. Or I thought I did. I’m struggling with my default assumption of assuming competence to figure out why we decided exempting fuel and agricultural products from the otherwise very clever and strong sanctions. I can only assume Western Europe wanted it that way, that they are going to keep giving hundreds of millions of dollars a day to Russia even as it invades their continent. That.. is somewhat hard to grasp. But I guess they don’t have any other choice.
as i told a friend yesterday, putin's a cretin, and i wish him the worst.
sending hugs.