And it was someone saying “If he asks, call me”. Nixon never asked for anything relating to nukes. He was, incidentally, committed to the policy of negotiated and monitored disarmament and was a prop… (View Post)

If you have the ability to hit precision targets, then randomly slapping cities is an expensive waste of ammunition. Ironically, the ludicrous inaccuracy of bombing at the start of WWII prevented the… (View Post)

Remember, most people in the UK only travel abroad for holidays. They don't interact will foreign health services much and seemed surprised that they exist, when they do use them. (View Post)

It’s very often the case that people from a society prepared to do X find it hard (or impossible) to imagine that other people wouldn’t do X to them at the drop of a hat. To a Putinite, if Ukraine wa… (View Post)

Which misses the point of the Process State. The idea is that humans are fallible, biased etc. so instead of human discretion, moral compasses etc. a Process is created. If the Process is complicated… (View Post)