XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 02/03/2025 08:18, Hibou wrote:   
   > Le 02/03/2025 à 06:02, Peter Moylan a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV   
   >> audience got.   
   >> It went down well in Moscow, of course, along with Putin's   
   >> comment that   
   >> Zelenskyy had been "disciplined". Throughout the Western world,   
   >> though,   
   >> the reactions were along the lines of "this will go down as   
   >> America's   
   >> most shameful day in history". Zelenskyy went on to London and   
   >> got a   
   >> hero's welcome, and all the European leaders seem to have   
   >> closed ranks   
   >> behind Ukraine. Trump came across as a little kid having a   
   >> tantrum. [...]   
   >   
   > Yes.   
   >   
   > United States - big country, small president.   
   >   
   > Ukraine - small country, big president.   
      
   UK - middle sized country, middle-sized head of government.   
      
   If Starmer had anything about him, he'd have sent in the RAF by   
   now to defend the Ukraine, and the Navy and the Marines to retake   
   the Crimea.   
      
   I'm not a Starmer fan by any means, but at least he can keep a   
   civil tongue in his head.   
      
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   Richard Heathfield   
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