Oh look the guy claiming to stand for the right of independent countries to do what they f*ck they want free of foreign interference
Being the foreign interference designed to push for protective moves he can then blame as foreign interference/agression against him
NATO: “Hey, country, want to join NATO?”
Country: “Nah, thanks.”
Putin: “Let me warn you, I won’t let you do that!”
Country: “Hmm. Having second thoughts now.”
Putin: “See how they are all being manipulated to unite against me?”
Narrator: “Yeah whose fault is that again?”
This is a little bit like U.K. politics BTW (tho on authoritarian steroids)
Serving a domestic audience to keep them from reacting to a spectacular collection of corruption and wrongdoings ultimately making their lives hell
“If we’re not at war with our neighbours, our citizens may notice that we, their govt, are wagging a war against their interests”

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30 Dec
I'm so tired
(Normal tired not Covid tired tho -much better)
✌️
It's a little disheartening that working as much as I can and more isn't enough (yet)
I wanted to tidy/clean the whole appartment before the kids come back tomorrow
But instead I think I'm going to go for pedagogy/life lesson: We'll do that together.
Next year :-)
I'll just give a little extra effort workwise tomorrow, and then set the setting for New Year's Eve home camping -and that will do
This time we will time travel to dinosaur time and great ancient civilisations
(Nice that I got to borrow this BTW) Image
Read 6 tweets
27 Dec
"Моя змея дома"
Well I see Russian lesson writers are trying to compete with #HandysentencesInSwedish now
"Это наши львы"
OK sorry Swedes, but on this one
Russian: 1, Swedish: 0
I mean you have *one* bear (probably busy eating a sandwich while your dogs drink coffee, your boys eat salt, your girls eat pepper and the elephant has the tomato), but they have *several* lions
No contest
(Learning on Duolingo: It's fun)
Read 11 tweets
27 Dec
So it’s not going great -Cases over 100k a day and we’re getting a new color
(Yes ofc my kids are spending the week in antimask family in a black area -the 3rd worse impacted nationally)
Ok measures have been announced.
Masks (but actually worn), work from home, no eating in public spaces unless sitting in an eating place (=masks worn) and no more than 2,000 people gathered inside (sitting, not standing up).
Oh and be cautious.
Well that should show Omicron.
Note that it is recommended to party with less than 2,000 people inside.
Read 6 tweets
20 Dec
A story about football
(How I discovered it even existed -It’s fair to say none of my parents are fans)
My brother and I were in Italy, in a camping, with our dad, wife #2 and step-sis #1
I was 10
That night Italy was playing
In a World Cup
In Italy
People were *hysterical*
Funny thing, in Italian campings (the one we camped in to the least), everyone had a TV. Everyone. Playing the “sound battle” with their neighbours.
Tho that night there was no battle.
Everyone was looking at Italy playing
Everyone.
It was playing semi-finals against Argentina.
We didn’t have a TV. (We were visiting Italy to “culture up” as our lame, ambitiousless mother was raising us as pitiful peasants.) We were there to learn about monuments, museums, the Romans’ history.
That night, we were reading the Michelin guide about tomorrow’s visits.
Read 12 tweets
16 Dec
Every single time I take a one minute break
When it’s not this one it’s the other
They see us as walking sofas, don’t they?
“You will not get up”
“This is my human, go away”
Read 5 tweets
16 Dec
Brexit benefits.
It’s always been the plan.
And FTR it has been laid bare for quite a while
But surely these shadowy funding mouthed by “think” tanks have no influence on govt policy right?
Why would they there’s no long-standing links
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