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On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 6:02:13 +0000, Peter Moylan wrote:

> On 02/03/25 11:26, Snidely wrote:
>
>>> A bit like the idiot who said he had a solution to end a war but
>>> forgot to invite one of the parties to the negotiations.
>>
>> You're being generous if you think it was just forgetting.  The
>> display he and his wingman Vance just gave was clearly intended to
>> have Ukraine twisting in the wind.
>
> Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV audience got.
> It went down well in Moscow, of course, along with Putin's comment that
> Zelenskyy had been "disciplined". Throughout the Western world, though,
> the reactions were along the lines of "this will go down as America's
> most shameful day in history". Zelenskyy went on to London and got a
> hero's welcome, and all the European leaders seem to have closed ranks
> behind Ukraine. Trump came across as a little kid having a tantrum.
>
> It didn't help Vance's reputation either. He came across looking like a
> ventriloquist's puppet. He seemed to be in over his head. Not really VP
> material.

What TV audience?  Trump doesn't care about opinions
anywhere outside the U.S., except maybe Russia, as
you said.

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Jerry Friedman

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