Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 16/02/2025 10:45 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:42:01 -0500, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:31:48 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:53:37 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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On 2/15/2025 3:07 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

It was clearly aimed at the home market; he was supposed to be there to
talk about security in Europe and never even mentioned Ukraine.  All

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We (US) are governed by "entertainers", now more than ever.  It is the nature
of our "system" that we reward people who can win races instead of govern.
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And, all of them end up "old and gray" (or, oldER and BALD as is the case
of The Orange One) in the process.
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that this speech has done is to turn most European countries against the
kind of ignorant, thuggish, self-serving America he represents.
Fortunately there are still many Americans who are not like that.

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This is probably a good thing.  Unless you are Putin.  It's pretty clear
that Russia is a Potemkin power -- definitely not a "World Power".
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The threat he poses is the threat ANY nation possessing nukes poses.
Care to make any guesses as to how many exist?  Or, *could* exist
if gifted the technology?
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The big question about Russian missiles and nukes is, will they work?

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The Russians know that their stuff isn't especially reliable, then and
now.  So they have always used lots of warheads, so at least one will
work.

 Redundancy is your friend. And Russia can certainly afford it.

Actually, they can't. They are importing artillery shells and infantry from North Korea. They can't sell as much oil as they used to, and the sanctions work well enough that they have to sell it more cheaply.
Russia is large, but it isn't well-run.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney