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When I think about the historical Phoney War, I get the major, big-time psychological wiggins (term of art) because while those in the west were waiting for something to happen, the wholesale slaughter of Polish leaders, intelligentsia, Jews, and other impediments to the establishment of Hitler's Lebensraum plan got underway, and with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Soviets began (well, actually continued) their slaughter a little further west, including at the Katyn forest.

This has very little to do with the current events that echo the Phoney War, it's more of an illustration of how, when I hear "Phoney War", I immediately think, oh god, there is a bloodbath happening, that's how this shit works, where is it, what am I not seeing, DANGER DANGER DANGER.

But I can go for a walk, and I will.

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