Trump doesn’t do understated. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
The long-awaited Trump-Putin summit came and went in Anchorage, Alaska:
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The cartoonish staging of the event coordination was another Trump ‘special’, straight from the playbook of his teenage-boy fever dream, stacking warplanes like matchbox toys, and even arranging for a crude B-2 Spirit and F-35 stealth bomber flyover above Putin’s head just as he made his way down the hastily-draped runner as some kind of strongman ‘power move’ and intimidation tactic, meant to evoke the recent Iranian strikes:
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This type of antic stunt ages very badly—it’s gimmicky, low-impulse, and signals to the counterparty—in this case, Putin—that you care more about domestic optics than establishing an atmosphere of true rapport and cooperation; i.e. it’s more a show of bravado to the domestic audience and critics. To the rest of the world, such displays lack taste and class.
Scuttlebutt about GI Zelensky in District of Cesspool next week.
He should rock some NSDAP gear to give a shout out to Lavrov in the CCCP sweatshirt.
Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter smiles.
O/T-Triumphant return of the Bolt Thrower, lightning bolt struck outside and thunder, I love it!