The public can be forgiven for choking on this kind of stuff.

There are different variations of these tricks, one can read more and more about such ideas as confusion and diffusion, and about how can they be matched to build more powerful and complex encryption systems, or reading the tools that are used to deceive intrusion detection systems of the Internet.

I firmly believe that we should not allow ourselves to participate in these games, nor that we should believe that Russia s fascist organizations don t have anything to do with the government.

The tone of the American response has been firm, giving appropriate reassurance to its allies and making clear that gamesmanship will not be tolerated, but not raising the temperature further.

Europe s demands ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self destructive. In rejecting them, the Greeks are not playing games they are trying to stay alive.