I don’t think it was you who did anyway, you’re good there dude. Either way, one of my lower replies p much sums up where I’m at with this: assuming that’s the case that he’s Russian, which I’m trying not to disbelieve, then the literal last things he should have led in with were the top three responses of every aggrieved Amerikan kyle who this actually does apply to. As a result, the pattern-finding lobe of my brain is locked in hypervigilance regarding “then why tf do you talk like Amerikans do on this subject?”.