Meh, the National Review is a pretty biased source. As is the USMC, to be honest.

Am I the only one who saw this?

Looks like an angry version of this:

You seem like the kind of guy would would drop his hunting gun before herds of ferocious wolves.

Nuclear thermal rockets would have been used for interplanetary transfer, not launch. Do you even Kerbal?

Oh for cripes sake, it’s not like Putin has the only AA in the area. Turkey has plenty of missiles covering Syria. Rooskia are leaving Turkish airspace alone and NATO is giving Russia room to operate in their little corner of Syria. Frankly at the moment it seems like everyone is getting along quite well.

These kind of pieces from FA have two consistent qualities: