re: #75 Jay C

Naah, I’m guessing they’ll be more likely to double down: after all, there won’t be too many other “growth industries” in the Motherland in the near-term…

Yeah, I remember Bill Browder McFaul telling a joke he said represents the Russian psyche: “a jinn appears to a Russian man and tells him that he can wish for anything he wants and he’ll get it, but his enemy will get the same thing; so he says, ‘ok, I wish to have my eyes put out.’” (Or something like that.)