"Single Combat"

Elon Musk and we like Elon Musk, has thrown down the gauntlet.  He has challenged Vladimir Putin to "single combat".  No word from Vlad as yet.  We're not sure what kind of a fight this would be.  Does Elon want a caged match like in the WWE?  In which case, it would all be choreographed and rehearsed like most everything else we see.  Or does Elon mean an MMA brawl where it would be all holy hell and for real?  Does Elon maybe even mean with weapons?  Like in days of old, with swords and axes and stuff?  Either way, the winner according to Elon, would get Ukraine.

What Elon would do with Ukraine we have no idea.  Would he be the President instead of Zelenskyy?  Hell, why not?  He would be the guy who saved the place.  Think President Grant here.  Maybe Elon could build electric cars there?  Or put up another launching pad for Space X?  But why would Vlad go for this?  Vlad lost thousands of guys, millions of dollars of stuff and if he lost the "single combat", what would all have that been for?  And, he might be dead.  We're not sure of Elon's fighting prowess but he's only 50.  Vlad on the other hand despite all the pictures of him with his shirt off and others where he's in a karate Gi, is closing in on 70.  That's the age where you can't touch your toes anymore and just bending over is a challenge. Single combat?  Not an viable option.

But we like the idea.  We mean if heads of state actually duked it out to settle conflicts instead of getting a whole lot of innocent people killed.  Now, this is not such a hot idea for America, as we had to go all the way back Dwight Eisenhower to find a President who actually kicked some ass in his life.  This was before his heart attack of course.  But all the others were either too old, too ill or no one could ever remember them being in an actual fight.  Before Ike we have to go all the way back to ole TR, Teddy Roosevelt.  Maybe if we could dig up Andrew Jackson, this might work for us.  Old Hickory was in some real duels, actually killed a few guys and always came out on top.  Barring that though, this is not a good idea for the US of A.  But for other countries this might work out just fine.  Saddam Hussein might still be running Iraq.  And Hitler?  Well you probably would never have heard of him.  Unlike Saddam who had to whack a whole lot of people in his rise to the top, Hitler only had to make speeches.  So, Hitler would probably be some homeless, WWI, PTSD Vet, wandering around Vienna, muttering "Mein Kampf, Mein Kampf." while he tried to sell his bad paintings to unsuspecting tourists.

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