By the rights of "might makes right" and Israel has mighty nuclear weapons. Me? I think might makes stupid--but I wouldn't say it in the face of a loony waving a nuclear weapon at me.

So here's a "postal theory" of today's lesson: Israel and North Korea are the poster children for small countries getting respect by acquiring nuclear bombs. Iran is now the biggest poster country for why your country needs 'em yesterday. And of course Ukraine is the leading poster child for not giving up any nukes you happen to find.

Now the YOB has created another YUGE mess for the rest of us to clean up while he rushes off to create fresh messes. And he expects Iran to just "forget about it" because he said so. If the YOB was capable of such deep thoughts, I might think he had a plan to just make sure the revenge attack doesn't happen until it can be blamed on the Democrats. (Increasingly hard for me to believe that some of these terrorist attacks aren't secretly welcomed by politicians who benefit from the disasters and crises... And fake crises when they can't find any real ones.)

So now I feel like visiting the prediction markets to see if I can get any leads into the kind of "offer the YOB can't refuse" that Xi will put on the table when he gets his next shot at the YOB. Or maybe the YOB will TACO again and postpone the meeting indefinitely? But does the YOB still have any "advisor" smart enough to see the risk?

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