Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:53:20 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <76741a45-2b1f-6c0e-ef5f-43fa29c4afa6@example.net> <2ja5ojlu05e7fe707438rm3741ll45khrl@4ax.com> <84f68101-bb4d-f311-7248-0db3a70b10ca@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:53:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="17cc186f884e3ad1fd75ec64e5ae1c53"; logging-data="1304718"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+g+iU9SMGAHNJt5a5setCdNn7J4ZmRWZg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gjUHz9r01vVMAqOZqxmmC2hrBMA= Bytes: 2166 On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:46:29 +0100, D wrote: > > >On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Paul S Person wrote: >> 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.'"