Fedya,

1) the SS-21s are not nuclear. They use them for things like rapidly killing Chechen leaders. This is because nothing else they have works. They’ve dropped fifty bombs on the BTC pipeline and missed. If they want to take that out this is what they’ll use. Meanwhile, I guess we just have to send over some Patriots to protect Sec’y Rice.

1a) They haven’t got the balls.

2) They should feel that way because the correct thing to do is to kill them all. They deserve to know that. I guess they could always surrender. They definitely need to know they lost. That is the classic German problem – they didn’t get pounded enough in WWI. They got plenty in WWII and now they’re docile.

Russia never got a sufficient pounding. At least not that they could comprehend, because we didn’t come and rape ten million of their women. (Instead now the women come and sell themselves, but it doesn’t register.)

Perhaps this could be a message to them – enough’s enough. But that is probably optimistic.