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   >    nuclear retaliation, maybe followed by invasions.   
   >    "The West Is The Most Evil Thing EVER" people would   
   >    see the event, and proper response, quite differently.   
   >    Jihad sympathizers MIGHT view it in a positive, almost   
   >    holy, light ... blows against the Great Satan(s).   
      
   A lot of people in Flyover Country, or the people in inland areas of   
   California, Oregon and Washington who would like to secede from the   
   Maoists in the coastal cities might clap if New York City, Sacramento or   
   DC were turned to glass.   
      
   >   
   >    As for "Little Rocketman", nobody seems quite sure what   
   >    his place and role may be. I see him as a Chinese proxy,   
   >    engineered to distract and drain resources. He does have   
   >    a small nuclear weapons stock and apparently does now   
   >    have missiles that could strike the US mainland and   
   >    Europe. However NK is not a large enough power, does not   
   >    have the resources, to follow-on any such attacks.   
   >    IMHO, it's purpose is to be loud and scary so we can   
   >    not put as much effort into China.   
   >   
   >    Hmmm ... I think Kim is to Xi what Musk is to Trump.   
   >    Musk is almost 'the jester' - he dances around, plays   
   >    the fool, says outrageous things. The US media and   
   >    further left are FIXATED on Musk ... almost forgetting   
   >    that he serves the will of Trump. This is The Plan.   
   >   
      
   I see Elon Musk as the kind of figure that American boys looked up to in   
   the era prior to the 1970s. A man who builds rockets to go to Mars is a   
   role model as were the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Werner von   
   Braun.  He helped make cars cool again and moved his job creating   
   businesses out of California when Alameda County bureaucrats tried to   
   wield Covid regulations like a sledge hammer over his Fremont Tesla   
   factory. He has his flaws, but I wish him well. He stands up to bullies,   
   and I credit him for that.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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