[NB: check the byline as usual, thanks. /~Rayne] We’ve discussed in comments this past week the possibility Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will deeply affect the global wheat market. It’s already affected wheat futures pricing dramatically. But wheat futures are only the tip of the iceberg. We are looking at the unfolding of a world war […]
Don’t like the message, so you attack the messenger? I’m just sick and tired of Russian propaganda. Power doesn’t come from lies, it comes from working on your economy. Russia made a strategic choice to double down on information war. It seemed so cheap and effective! But we see today that if you ignore truck maintenance instead, your lies don’t roll those invading columns.
They never did learn, did they? Remember this old joke?
The train breaks down. Lenin tries to rally the workers to work together and get the train running again. When that fails, Stalin lines up all the workers and shoots them. When that doesn’t help, Khrushchev tries to reform the workers back to life. When that also fails, Brezhnev pulls down all the curtains in the rail car and says “let’s just pretend the train is moving.”
Don’t like the message, so you attack the messenger? I’m just sick and tired of Russian propaganda. Power doesn’t come from lies, it comes from working on your economy. Russia made a strategic choice to double down on information war. It seemed so cheap and effective! But we see today that if you ignore truck maintenance instead, your lies don’t roll those invading columns.
They never did learn, did they? Remember this old joke?
The train breaks down. Lenin tries to rally the workers to work together and get the train running again. When that fails, Stalin lines up all the workers and shoots them. When that doesn’t help, Khrushchev tries to reform the workers back to life. When that also fails, Brezhnev pulls down all the curtains in the rail car and says “let’s just pretend the train is moving.”
Face it, the train isn’t moving.