• breecher@sh.itjust.works
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      That seems like the opposite of lucid. They seem to have just moved further up their own colons packed with their social media propaganda.

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    Trump wants to pay off his debt to Putin, and that’s going to cost a lot to clear. Putin wants to drag America into the Russian dystopic world, and Trump doesn’t really care as long as he’s rich and out of prison.

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    6 months ago

    Dear Hilary Clinton,

    Please shut the fuck up forever.

    Thanks,

    America

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      Are you suggesting that for the war to stop, a sovereign nation should cede territory to the country that’s been brutally attacking them for several years?

      Because if so, that’s fucked up.

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        No but I see why you ask. I was asking because of the 4D, which suggests using very elaborate strategies. Merely saying the opposite could even be understood by Trump, so it becomes difficult to identify the 4D strategy.

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          Trump’s personality is such that possibly only Obama nominating him for a NP might give him more of an ego boost and another thing to preen and brag about than Hillary Clinton doing so. The 4D part was that Trump has (to my knowledge) been pretty squarely in the camp of “I’ll end this war! (by convincing Zelensky to give up enough ground to satisfy Putin)”

          But now, she hoped, maybe he’d go into the meeting with the view that it’s now “his” idea that Ukraine doesn’t have to give up ground, with his eyes on the prize of being nominated by the person he has vilified most strongly.

          His consolation prize even if he didn’t win the NP would still be, “I’m a very peaceful man, everyone knows it. They are all saying it, everyone is saying it. Even Hillary Clinton nominated me for a Nobel Prize, can you believe that? Even Crooked Hillary finally realizes that I’m a peaceful man. You know, I bet she’s glad she lost now, as she watches what a good job I’m doing.”

          I’m sure that HC knew there was no chance of any such thing happening, but her nominating him would be a small price to pay if he succeeded. Arguably she’s still doing diplomacy, and I say this as someone who is not generally in love with HC.

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            That’s how I understood it. I would’t call that 4D, maybe 3D. 4D implies strategies that not everybody recognizes. So if this is the obvious strategy for everybody to perceive, what are her real intentions?

            Obviously there is not more to it, but it’s fun to speculate.

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                That’s what we want to believe but politicians are as much better at politics as LeBron James is at basketball.

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      She wants it to stop, but since she has more than half a braincell, she realizes that’s absolutely not going to happen from the meeting.

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      She wants it to stop.
      She’s trolling the troll, beating him at his own game, mocking him, and making him the bigger fool.

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      The war will never stop until Russia is either defeated or very firmly deterred from further aggression.