Yes. There are reports that Salvini may be having second thoughts: a phone call was leaked between him and Meloni where he referred to Meloni as a ‘pain in the ass’ after he lost votes in the South of Italy to Meloni’s party.

You forgot the third comically long tank Edit: maybe not comically long, but still… long enough.

‘Oh God - they’re multiplying’ - some US official at seeing the rise of global communism during the cold war, probably.

The sky will always shine blue and the earth

Will endure long and flourish in Spring.

But you, mankind, how long will you live?

From The Drinking Song of the Sorrows of the Earth.

It is a piece of Chinese poetry by Li T’ai-po and the German translation was used as the libretto for the first movement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

And they claim they need to be oppressed by the north Korean government to stop them leaving the dprk when ths South Korean culture seems to be doing all of the heavy lifting. Sometimes propaganda just starts disproving itself…