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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:35:30 +1100
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On 24/02/2025 3:00 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:54:23 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
>> In article <vou7gl$rm6g$3@dont-email.me>,
>> Bill Sloman  <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>> On 17/02/2025 5:12 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:57:19 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:49:24 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:32:32 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 17/02/2025 12:50 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 16/02/2025 11:48 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 16/02/2025 6:41 am, Cursitor Doom 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:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, if he was afraid of having a NATO Ukraine on his border, he
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hasn't yet realized what a threat a re-ARMED Europe would pose
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in that same geographical position.  Trump's trash talking may
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> result in a EUTO (without the US) that feels empowered to push
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> back on future issues without "consent" from the US.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Getting Europe's military up to the job would take at least a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decade. But there's no money available. Germany - once the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> economic powerhouse of the continent - is on its knees and France
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> likewise. And even if it could be afforded - which it can't - we
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> now know Putin can call upon China and N. Korea, so if push ever
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> came to shove, continental Europe would be toast.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The US Abrahams tank relies on a German gun and UK (Chobham)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> armour.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> But the Americans won't have to fight if Trump has his way.  He
>>>>>>>>>>>> thinks he can just keep Putin happy by feeding him European
>>>>>>>>>>>> countries, one-by-one.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> NATO exists so that he can't do that. An attack on one NATO member
>>>>>>>>>>> is an attack on all of them. Ukraine is a not a member of NATO (and
>>>>>>>>>>> Putin doesn't want it to join).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A flourish of the pen is all it needs to destroy that.  Trunp has
>>>>>>>>>> pulled out of other alliances when it suits him, why not this one?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Trump pulling America out of NATO won't destroy the agreements between
>>>>>>>>> all the other countries involved.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I know, but he thinks he rules most of the World and NATO will fall
>>>>>>>> apart without him.  Then, once the unity is broken, he can manipulate
>>>>>>>> the individual countries in any way that suits him.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He is acting in the interest of the people who elected him. That is a
>>>>>>> radical concept nowadays.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The next election will test whether they think he has done that ...if
>>>>>> there is a next election.
>>>>>
>>>>> US Presidential elections happen every 4 years. But maybe the sun will
>>>>> go supernova or Climate Change will kill us all before we get to elect
>>>>> Vance.
>>>>
>>>> For once this is something I agree with Bitrex on. JDV would make an
>>>> *excellent* successor to Trump if his Munich speech is anything to go
>>>> by. He's good looking, articulate, and not afraid to look down the
>>>> barrel of the would-be New World Order. In short: highly electable.
>>>
>>> His unwillingness to say that Trump lost the 2020 election may cost him
>>> the support of some voters.
>>>
>>> The US is remarkably tolerant of criminally corrupt politicians, but
>>> there are limits.
>>
>> The cost of eggs is still up. That is the reason and some, that Trump
>> will not have the support of the legislative soon.
>> The USA-ans are wood headed, but bankrupting agriculture, grandma
>> dying for lack of drugs, more inflation because of tariffs  will hollow
>> out MAGA.
> 
> Tbe USA is almost 4 million square miles. 50 states. We invent most of
> the useful stuff on Earth and periodically stop World Wars that
> Europeans start. And the skiing is excellent.
> 
> Eggs are coming down in price too... there are lots around. Half the
> problem was buyer panic, which ends when people have a fridge full of
> 24-packs. Same thing happened a while back with toilet paper.

The other half of the problem was bird flu. That isn't going to go away.

If you kill off enough infected chickens the problem will go away for a 
while, but vaccination is the only long term answer, and Trump doesn't 
have the attention span to manage that.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney