From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:56:21 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann    
   wrote:   
      
   >Am 18.01.26 um 18:54 schrieb john larkin:   
   >> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:44:46 +0000, Dan Green    
   >> wrote:   
   >   
   >>> And there's many of them.   
   >>> I predict Trump will break from NATO. Just you wait and see.....   
   >>   
   >> It's certainly time for european countries to pay for european wars.   
   >   
   >That amount of brain damage: how is it possible to survive with that?   
   >It must hurt badly.   
   >   
   >It is certainly time for the US to pay for the US wars.   
   >   
   >   
   >Less than 5% of peace time for the US in the last 250 years, and   
   >in the time before that, there was no peace at all. Oh, the   
   >plaintiffs cannot complain anymore, they have been conveniently   
   >eradicated.   
   >   
   >For the bible thumpers: read 1Samuel -25. It tells how that's done   
   >correctly.   
   >   
   >And for the occupiers: Its about time to go home. You never   
   >protected us, you protected your own interests. We are just a   
   >bridge head against the Ruzzians, with middle Europe as the   
   >designated playground for your thermonuclear fantasies.   
   >   
   >Yes, we'll pay more, but to our own companies. Gripens instead of   
   >the defunct but overpriced F-35s with their remote kill switch.   
   >Just like the Canadians will do.   
   >   
   >Your biggest car exporter is BMW. Guess how long they will stay   
   >in Spartanburg with import taxes on parts? Or Audi?   
   >   
   >It's kinda fun to watch that narcissist sock puppet of Putin's   
   >in the White House (as far as there is still something left of it).   
   >If he ever develops ideas of his own, all it takes is a 20 minute   
   >phone call from the Kremlin to put him straight back in line.   
   >   
   >I wonder what material they have on file against him. Given how   
   >the GDR targeted western managers with with Romeo/Juliet agents   
   >during the Leipzig Fair, it's more than probable that the KGB   
   >did the same during the Moscow Trump Tower adventure. Hell, he   
   >even got premises for it, inexpensively, beautyful, big, gooood deal!   
   >   
   >With his preference for gold, maybe there is more to the rumors   
   >about Golden Showers in a hotel room? On tape, perhaps?   
   >   
   >Oh, and the Nobel price medal: Goebbels got one, too, from   
   >a fanboi, in  1943. (Knut Hamsun, 1920 for literature)   
   >Birds of a feather.   
   >   
      
      
   500 million Europeans [are asking] 300 million Americans to protect   
   them from 140 million Russians.   
      
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