Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:53:37 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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?