💬 At some point, you've got to call a bluff. And Ukraine's been doing exactly that.
Russia’s Threats Are Like a Drunk Bloke at the Pub Who Keeps Saying He’ll Fight Everyone But Never Actually Throws a Punch Right, let me be dead straight with you: Russia ramping up threats against Ukraine tells us precisely bugger all that we didn’t already know, except that Moscow’s playing the world’s most tedious game of psychological poker with a hand that’s getting worse by the week. Here’s the thing about threats, innit — they’re the verbal equivalent of a bluff. And Vladimir Putin has become the international equivalent of that absolute muppet you see down the local who’s been necking lager all night, puffing his chest out, telling everyone he’s going to do them over, while his mates are quietly shepherding him toward the door before he gets absolutely mullered by someone half his size. ...