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Is this correct? “Some may recall this was my own common calling card since last year. I repeatedly wrote that Russia is suffering huge problems in this war, but they simply pale in comparison to those of Ukraine and the West—and in a race to the bottom, it is Ukraine that will unquestionably win.” — Do you mean Russia here? Just curious.

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Ukraine will win the race to the bottom, in other words they will lose.

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AHA! Thank you.

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It was clever phraseology, I suspect nearly all of us had to blink and think at it. :)

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Indeed! And it also, of course, presupposes the claim that the West is going to make that Ukraine simply prevailed, whatever happens, as Simplicius maintains. Yes, very clever formulation!

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the problem lies in using the word 'win', I suspect, instead of 'be first'.

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Guerilla ontology is rarely wasted. It made people think, which is nearly always a good thing, especially in a good cause.

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More like "ontological void", as my 5 year old cat knows what "winning a race to the bottom" means.

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To be fair, cats are smarter than most people.

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Ya got that right. For 60 years my various cat masters have played with me like a mouse.

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