Subject: Re: Hegseth's comments / global blockade
At any rate. Students of history will understand what's happening as a variant of the Nixon/Henry Kissinger stratagem of getting the North Vietnamese to the Paris peace talks.

Hey, easy there chum, some of us are trying to sip hot coffee here! Did you do your master's thesis at Murdoch University of on how those peace talks with the Vietcong turned out?

(From the wonderful film A Fish Called Wanda, 1988)

Otto: "Shut up. We didn't lose Vietnam. It was a tie!"

Wanda: "Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up."