How well did that work out for Ukraine?

The realpolitik answer is always to get nukes before they can stop you. Look at how well it worked for Israel and North Korea.

A mentally handicapped person can still receive instructions from others.

Most people are concerned he’s a Russian asset because Russia has something on him. Not because he’s ideologically or philosophically aligned with them.

With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.

If it was wrong when the USA did it to civilians, it would still be wrong when someone else did it to civilians. Even American ones.

If a government’s actions can justify massacre of their civilians, why are you complaining about the USA taking justified actions against them? Governments are nearly universally terrible. Practically all targets are justified.