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From: Jhulian Waldby <wichitajayhawks@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: my bet against the invasion of Ukraine.
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:10:32 -0600
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Altered Beast wrote:
> 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.

If he had retreated back to the village, the guy would have just said, 
"he went back for his torch."  Do you see what I mean?  It's indefinite, 
waiting for war.

If I had said two weeks maybe I should have taken the original bet of 
one hundred dollars.

I wasn't really on top of my shit.  I was behind the curve so to speak. 
Evidently some people were fooled by Putin's ruse at the border for a 
couple weeks or a month.

I gave him two envelopes at two different times, one with $10 and the 
other with $15.