Tactical nukes need to be near their potential theatre of operation.
When I was in high school, a history teacher was always telling students that war is not like the action movies. Not every death in war is a soldier on a battlefield.
Today I understand this.
If Turkey’s politicians didn’t want to deal with a large number of Refugees from Syria, then perhaps invading and occupying part of Syria, and acting as a conduit for arms and money to violent jihadist militias shouldn’t have been on the agenda for the last 5-10 years.
Putin seems to have designated his pet dancing bear as Russia’s official chief edgelord tr0ll. Quite an accomplishment given the competition.
Medvedev claimed Europe was acting as a vassal for the “perverted whims of Americans”.
“Europe should be a vassal for our perverted whims!” sobs Medvedev as a Leopard nibbles at his face.
I have never encountered anything like “phantom pains” in the actual country of Poland, which I know pretty well. The vast majority of Poles have no idea what happened during what Russians remember as the “time of troubles.” Yet we are supposed to believe that Polish energy policy today is motivated by a war of 1612 rather than the war of 2022.
Zhirinovsky left some big shoes to fill, but little Dimon is doing his darndest.
BBC News - Japan’s pacifism hangs in balance as China and North Korea threats loom
