Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Altered Beast Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: my bet against the invasion of Ukraine. Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:56:40 -0500 Lines: 14 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net GDb6HRzQ7eBxKiQjtElP1A8QH0NqrOk94yroIbWhIMVelh0YAh Cancel-Lock: sha1:2ZPkcNXbJuXRkiHmhuuRryI+zW0= sha256:n2lAX1wLdpFUO2i4/jVnbLgJIvacQTgFnazVCNXTWq4= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.forteinc.com:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Bytes: 1378 if you ever do something like this, My biggest regret within a day after making the bet was to not set a time limit. It was just - will russia invade or not? Maybe you understand, I was sitting there in a bad spot, it takes millennia to prove a not. I think it was two weeks after the bet that Putin moved in and it was big news. Not necessarily get it in writing, but set a reasonable framework on both sides of the bet. I'm still curious why Putin flopped about like a goldfish on the border for such a long time before actually taking action.