Peter has a general’s instinct, and a Texan’s orneriness. Distinct sense that the tide is, if not yet turning, definitely slackening, as the anti-scam counter-attack gains momentum. No wonder Gates has suddenly gone quiet. Gets clearer and clearer that he’s in the frame, and must now concentrate on saving his own arse; if the bastard can. Quoted this before, but it fits so well here that I have to quote it again - stirring times!
“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We’d see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn’t always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don’t yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
― Bertolt Brecht, [The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]
Link is mainly in English, with some brief translations by Reiner: