"We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for a year, two years, three years – however long it takes. We have been at war with Sweden for 21 years. How long are you ready to fight? Perhaps some of those sitting here at this table will lose more of their loved ones. Russia is ready to fight forever," the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said during the talks in Istanbul, according to Economist journalist Oliver Carroll.

My God, my five-year-old is a better bluffer.

After the failure of "Kyiv in Three Days," the Russians shifted their economic policy to essentially the same regime as the Third Reich in the first half of the 1930s – pumping up credit and entering the production capacity curve with an overheating economy.

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