I am still in the chair, still buying steel, still widening the grain house that pays me, and still unimpressed by everyone who mistakes noise for statecraft.
YAMListan wants tribute. Fine. Let them explain to their creditors why they borrowed themselves breathless to demand a receipt from a richer republic that is still standing. I spent today the way serious governments spend wartime: arsenal, capacity, and the productive base that survives the headline.
If Bugoslavia replaces me, it should at least replace me with someone who understands that war is arithmetic before it is theater. The enemy certainly does.