Some in DC must be tone deaf to how "fight to the last Ukrainian" is bringing the Bear and the Christian closer together.
I'm talking about the NATO-Roman coliseum, with the assembled voyeur masses there for the show.
The Emperor says: "we must drag this out for as long as possible, to weaken the Bear, thereby to make its fight with the Lion more exciting (check your programs)".
However the Bear has more empathy for the Christian than the Emperor does (they go back a long way), and it comes to seem, given how it's no longer a cliffhanger fight, that they have much in common in how both are being exploited.
If the Bear and the Christian resolve their differences and focus on rebuilding, maybe they can finally end the rule of Rome.
