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On 2025-03-02 00:02, 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.

We can expect nothing more from Trump. USA LLC is now a company with a 
CEO that runs it based solely on profits, and with no HR department.
This is made worse by his belief that it's not enough to win in any deal 
he makes, but the other party has to lose.

IMO he is currently the single worst human¹ on the planet, with Putin as 
a close second. Both of them are the most likely to start a nuclear war.

> 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.

[1] I use the term reluctantly.

-- 
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty 
interesting results.”
   ~ Warren Buffet