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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
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On 20/09/2024 8:00 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:38:18 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/19/24 17:30, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>> On a sunny day (Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:45:22 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <a4eoejlqa3q0gols8jpedac890a9cg7ok2@4ax.com>:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:55:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On a sunny day (Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:01:07 +0200) it happened "Carlos E.R."
>>>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote in <jfhqrkx4ce.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-09-18 01:32, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:03:45 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 9/17/2024 6:39 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:18:26 -0500, Crash Gordon <uucp@crashelex.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:

<snip>

> "If you save someone's life, they will hate you forever."

The Russians won WW2 for the allies, and the rest of the alliance has 
hated them for it ever since.

The alliance as a whole fought a lot of battles to defeat the Germans, 
but the Russians fought more of them than anybody else, and lost more 
combatants in the process. Stalin was a murderous psychopath, and there 
were excellent reasons to hate him for it, but he didn't do as much 
damage to the Russian war effort as Hitler did to the German war effort, 
or at least not after the war was under way.

John Larkin has an exaggerated idea idea of the US contribution to 
victory in WW2 - the atomic bomb was crucial in frightening Japan into 
surrendering, but for the rest the US was useful but rather less than 
decisive.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney