>>>Your appreciation of valour is impressive but sadly increasingly old-fashioned.
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>>Though I think trump as President is a disaster
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>bit too strong for me, but I think he is below mean on personal scale ;-)
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>>and his handling of Covid [abysmal]
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>here I would put even more emphasis, esp. on times after May, when you had data
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>>and the urban unrest has been abysmal
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>on that topic I think SNAFU is well entrenched from riots late last century with the policy of letting them run wild.
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>>I do think he gets a quite a bit of unfair press.
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>I love your british understatement and dry humor ;-)
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>>I don't like the articles about his wife and his relationship with her. Nobody voted for her. Articles about his older children working in the government are fair enough.
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>Full ACK. Jared getting some signatures between Israeli and Sunnite Red Sea Oil pockets: Obama never got even that and would have been given another peace prize, perhaps something like "best of the decade". Do I think such signatures will bring peace to that area ? Nope. But sweeping it under the rug and claiming US diplomacy under Trump is dead ?
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>>I don't like articles based on "sources".
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>ACK, also of women claiming to have been "assaulted" years ago - if they were older than 21 back then they should have slapped or knee-groined him back then on the spot.
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>OTOH I dislike him trying to invoke some privilege now, throwing Barr between himself and such claims trying to make sperm evidence not appliccable to a sitting prez ;-)

The Israel UAE deal is just about Saudi Arabia and trying to box in Iran IMO. I'd imagine Iran and China and Iran and Russia are having more interesting chats every day.