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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:10:26 +0000
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Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:31:48 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
> 
> >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
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>And, all of them end up "old and gray" (or, oldER and BALD as is the
> >>case of The Orange One) in the process.
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>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".
> >>
> >>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?
> >>
> >
> >The big question about Russian missiles and nukes is, will they work?
> 
> 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.

Four of them came down in Romania last week - we haven't heard much
about that on the UK news.  Two were in Moldavia, close to the border,
so they might have been a mistake, but two more were well inside
Romania.


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