Re: OT: Converting miles/km

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 18:47:38 +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2025-03-02, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
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Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV audience got.

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I thought Trump was performing for his supporters and it was well
received in those quarters.

Those who want peace must support Trump. Those parasites who want to
make money out of war naturally hate Trump.

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Igor Girkin[1], of all people, has an astute take:
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  Overall, I disagree with the assessment of this meeting and its
  outcome as presented by our media. On our television, they claimed
  that Trump and Vance harshly humiliated Zelensky.

They jolly well did
Gave him the Order of the Boot from the Oval Office.
 However, I

  believe that it was Zelensky who utterly humiliated Trump and
  Vance in front of the central American media and all of America.

You will also believe that with superior Western weapons Zelensky
conquered Russia.

  When Trump, in his characteristically boorish cowboy manner, tried
  to demean Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House, he ended
  up with the exact opposite result.

No Trump did exactly what wanted to.

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  Not only did Zelensky refuse the deal that Trump already considered
  as good as in his pocket—a deal he could have presented to his
  voters and all U.S. citizens as his first major foreign policy
  success-but he effectively turned the tables.

Zelensky is at the kindest a disastrous fool. Without ceasefire and
without US support the Russians will keep on grabbing Ukraine steadily.
To prevent that he needs full European support and good luck with that.
In fact, Trump faced

  direct and demonstrative defiance from someone he regarded, at
  best, as a servant, or more likely as some sort of "white native,"
  whose opinion doesn't matter and who is expected to bow on command
  to the "big white sahib" as much and in whatever way the latter
  pleases.

Brown sahibs never got to spend billions of foreign money with no
accounting.

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  Zelensky demonstrated that the elites in Europe and the U.S.
  supporting him are strong enough to oppose Trump, at least on
  this level. Of course, Donald will never forgive Zelensky for
  this—absolutely never. The question, however, is different: what
  can he do about it? And the answer is, not much.

He has made Biden look like a fool for giving Zelensky billions and that
is a political advantage. He has saved further money losses there. He is
making Europeans pay more for their security.

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https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3ljext3mkhk2p
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[1] Russian ultranationalist, involved in Russia's invasion of
    Donbas in 2014, convicted of shooting down MH17, currently
    languishing in a Russian prison because of his strident criticism
    of the Russian leadership and Putin personally for half-assing
    the invasion of Ukraine.