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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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On 4/03/2025 5:06 a.m., jerryfriedman wrote:
> 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". 

Just occurred to me we could agree with P, on a counter-reading of that 
word. Yes, Z was [self-]disciplined; the other two were totally off the 
chain.