It's strange for an anonymous voice to keep saying oh, so-and-so loves autocrats, loves dictators.  No one in politics has a love relationshíp with other world leaders.  It's another example of a general dumbing down and it really annoys me.  Obviously world leaders have to discuss world issues.  Obviously we can't assume anything about each others' policy, there needs to be diplomacy.  If not, what we get is what's going on.  Rumors of Russia in military alliance with Iran.  Second-hand knowledge of China being involved with taking over bases the U.S. abandoned.  And terrorist groups telling the world what they are going to do--up to the moment--to nations.

! Aaaaaargh !

  What a disgrace and undesireable way of life we are getting into--today! More than ever, although the "axis of evil" has been working on their strategies and alliances for 20-40, 50 years!

  Not sure when exactly it was that our Sec. Austin had to warn his Russian counterpart that using nuclear weapons in Ukraine would change restraints; could cause catastrophic in military field-talk; could lead to nuclear exchange, but it was back in 2005 that Rosenberg's interviews (for the book Epicenter) had people explaining that Iran is not a conventional player in the war games.  And back further in the 1990's, there was American bipartisan agreement, that this brinkmanship that has bled into threats in real time, not okay.

  At this point actions by terrorists are dictating again.  What is going on right now is no longer apocalyptic theory.  Even the U.S. has been drawn into contentions militarily.