Re: OT: Ukraine

On 1/04/2025 1:16 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:29:49 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
wrote:
 

Am 31.03.25 um 07:03 schrieb Bill Sloman:
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So far he hasn't brought peace to the Ukraine in 24 hours.

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It's so peaceful on our grave yard. Just brought a new candle for mom!
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He doesn't seem to have a problem with Russia's desire to annex the
Ukraine - after all Trump wants to annex Panama, Canada and Greenland.

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and Gaza
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Sooner or later, there must be a casino that does not go broke?

 The Trump/Musk/Edison technique is to try lots of different things
fast, but don't bet the farm on any one of them.

That's the standard venture capitalist approach. Trump's desire to annex Panama, Canada and Greenland is more of a Putin/Hitler-style predatory land-grab.
If he were serious he'd get hauled up before the international court of justice in short order.
Musk's takeover of Twitter wasn't any kind of venture capital exercise. He made a much larger offer for the business than he should have done, and changed it after he'd taken it over in way that roughly halved its value.
His changes to the US public service seem to be from the same playbook.
It's more "managing director's Lego" - once you have got control of something you change it to demonstrate that you can. Any improvement is incidental, and - granting how little senior executives know about the detailed operation of the organisation they nominally control - they do tend to be rare.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney