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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:53:20 -0800
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:46:29 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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>On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Paul S Person wrote:

<snippo>

>> People who are panicked can do things that would otherwise make no
>> sense.
>
>If Putins button would be located on his bedside table I would agree =
with you.
>It is not, and an order needs to go through many levels, by design, =
before any
>rockets fly. It would be a more or less risk free way to finish the war =
quickly.

Never having been in Putin's current location, I have no idea where
the button is. I can only hope you are correct.

I'm fairly sure the US President is one door and one military officer
away from access to the codes that launch the missiles, however.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"