[simplemath]

The frightening context that the White House belongs to Putin? I find that pretty frightening, personally.

[gpvos]

Putin happens to be someone who is good at scheming. This is because he is largely unfettered by politics, and he sticks to fairly simple goals like "destabilize the enemy".

[pizza]

There appears to be a popular confluence of high-discount-rate political leaders nowadays. Wonder if MAD will eventually be outmoded by instant & retaliation-disabling schemes.

Bert the turtle was very alert..