Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:

a) if your response to being uncomfortable is to invade neighbouring
countries is it suprising that neighbouring countries join a defense
pact?

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Well, it worked for Catherine the Great, so maybe it'll work again!
--scott
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I found this gem in todays mainstream newspaper. It's a quote from swedish diplomat to russia, Petrus Petrejus who lived at the beginning of the 17:th century.
Petrus Petrejus, who wrote in the early 17th century: "when the Muscovites have enmity with their neighbors, they do not do as other Christian potentates usually do, to declare war and enmity through their heralds and letters. Instead, before the neighbor knows the word, they attack the neighboring people with a few thousand men. And just as they begin their wars, with treachery and cunning, they use the same arts when they are to broker peace."
Not much has changed in 400 years.