They would start to “seriously consider the possibility that perhaps something was not right”

We’ve always been good at walking away, closing our ears, turning a blind eye…

If the alternative to “the nukes” is “gets steamrolled the old fashioned way” anyway, it’s not really an alternative.

I’m slightly worried about the really big guns russia supposedly have, but only slightly. At this point, it’s not like there’s a big red “launch” button on putin’s desk; it’d have to go through a few people that may have the actual big picture in their mind.

They may get forbidden from operating in the US? Like, the same thing, in reverse?

The satellites trains do it already by themselves, it’s ok.

the parties, exhausted by campaigning, will learn to compromise and make a coalition

Good luck with that.

Not putting him on a pedestal as a representative of your country would be a good start.