Form: Short Note

Great conversation with a Dutch guy who has been working against corruption in Ukraine for a decade – even under yanukovich.

I’ll go into the various arguments later but they have thought through all the angles.

They’re too quiet. But otherwise it’s good to know a non idiots are involved.

Very smart guy. Not company.

Wants the slow route. I would use the media and stay on message with all Ukrainians but like most people without money they think small but deliberately it seems.

The idea of settling with the oligarchs is on the table. But they’re clearly worried about the fighters. His argument was that the oligarchs have private armies and we would end up with civil war.

My view was that people act as you would expect when they are well informed. And well informed people are hard to game.

Anyway. The situation is better than I thought on one hand and moving as slowly as if they were merely waiting for the generation to die off in the other.

So it’s a risk reward scenario like always. Some of us want higher risk for faster solutions and some of us want lower risk.

My concern is that it’s hard to tell if Lower risk people merely take credit for causality when observing deterministic results in deterministic time frames.

Heroism.