Now that he weighed a hundred and ten pounds and I had bench-pressed my way up to a hundred and seventy-nine, I could be aguajero, but he just ran his finger across his neck.

NEWYORKER: The Pura Principle

As I quipped on Twitter this morning, if Ivanishvili (someone who has repeatedly and forcefully advocated on behalf of EU and NATO membership) is really the best Manchurian candidate that the Russians can dig up, then their bench is even thinner than I would have guessed and the GRU and the FSB need to urgently re-evaluate their recruiting procedures.

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