Got worse, or just stopped getting better? Stasis isn't brilliant- it means the only way to pay Paul is to rob Peter. And it's much less acceptable to borrow now if we're not going to be much richer … (View Post)
Suspect part of the problem has been boredom. You see hints of it in the "we need bad times to produce great men" thing. Which isn't even original; “In Italy for thirty years under the Borg… (View Post)
Except, echoing the header, what does peace look like? Especially if it needs to not be a Ukrainian capitulation and also let Vlad survive in power. It's a very small overlap on the old Venn diagram,… (View Post)