From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:44:50 -0800, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:25:55 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-18, Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> What I find fascinating about Trump is that he has a very pre-WWI   
   >>> concept of diplomacy. He doesn't think about countries but about   
   >>> individual kings. Europe doesn't work that way and it seems to   
   >>> really confuse him.   
   >>   
   >> That confusion is very much mutual. Nobody here knows how to deal   
   >> with a USA that is ruled by a capricious king.   
   >   
   > Treat it as what it is -- a failed State which is run by petulant   
   > 5-year-olds.   
      
   5-year-olds with their finger on the nuclear trigger.   
      
   You see why everybody is tiptoeing softly around, trying very   
   carefully not to enrage the tyrant.   
      
   But of course the more you appease him, the more greedy he will become   
   ...   
      
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