If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.

And assuming speculation is right that it’s bowel cancer

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/king-charles-brave-words-kind-32054314

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/survival

Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they’ve probably caught it at stage 1.

That’s a 55% chance he’s got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.

His father lived to 99 and he’s currently 75.

A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.

They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was “It’s only sad to die if you haven’t lived. I’ve lived.”

The US should definitely have sanctions applied to it when they break international law.

At the moment there isn’t much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date” when a country commits violence or funds a foreign coup.

That’s because there’s too much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date.” When applying sanctions.

If the sanctions were virtually guaranteed to get triggered, the difficult decision would be for the regime doing the wrong thing in the first place.

Honestly, a regime should have to factor in the risk of losing all their money abroad if they start an illegal war or attempt genocide.

The theory of Europe relying on Russian gas as they joined the world economy was that mutual reliance prevents war because the consequences harm both sides.

Losing assets to the victims of the war you start would be a useful precedent to set and keep. The logic is the same.

The problem is that because sanctions hurt both sides we’re still reluctant to use them.

We should have activated sanctions over the war in Georgia, or the first invasion of Crimea. Eventually we did as Russia marched on another Nation’s capital.

Banks are never going to take an action that harms them. If we want to redirect the seized assets of Russia it will have to be governments which force them.