Sure wish we had more like him. Train-wreck stars may be fun to read about, but their movies are usually underwhelming.

Ah... yeah.

Far as I’m concerned he can keep on shining on the silver screen. Seems like a lot of actors/actresses outlive their talent and end up being tabloid material - so far he’s not gone that way. 

Hard to tell the context from a single shot. It’s pretty, though.

One would hope there’s some sort of reason.

Except the ‘smoke screen’ is going to be a big red arrow pointing RIGHT where your ass currently is. Yeah, maybe the Mk 1 eyeball’s obsolete for tracking, but seriously...

They missed the floodlights and air horns then. ;)

Okay... if you’re going stealthy on a low-level attack, seems to me the last thing you want to do is leave a brightly colored smoke trail. Just sayin’, YMMV and all that...

“The dog ate my homework and all my data.”

Huh. Makes you wonder if they use stencils and airbrushing for his markings...

“Egrets... I ate a few -

Here’s another look at the issues...

You might find this interesting. http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/04/25/thunder_run_to_seoul_assessing_north_koreas_war_plan_111241.html

This wasn’t a specially-designed nuke...

You missed a facet of MAD - the USSR didn’t use nukes on NATO countries out of worries of retaliation.

MAD works when both players are rational - for certain values of rational which actually includes the survival of the country as a political and military entity.

Thanks for the review!

I agree - there’s a number of ways to attack. It all depends on how smart they are, and how innovative they’re willing to be.

I said it’s a mess, and implied there’s a lot of ways the shit can hit the fan. If you don’t like that, then obviously ‘I don’t know what I’m talking about’ - which seems to be the go-to statement on Gizmodo when any sort of disagreement comes up. Quite persuasive, you know.

Well, those ‘rational, intelligent’ men basically let NK do what it wanted. As with Iran.