Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II

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In Russia, good Christians believe things like Nuclear Orthodoxy.  St. Seraphim of Sarov has been declared the patron saint of Russia's nuclear arsenal, which is especially convenient since the USSR destroyed part of his monastery to build a nuclear research town.  The Russian Orthodox Church teaches believers that the nukes will be important to take care of the forces of Satan at the end of the world, during the Second Coming.

Wasn't there a HFY!/AFY! webnovel about that on... well, this is the politics subforrum, so I'll call it like it is... one of the spinoff sites the people too far-right for SpaceBattles spawned I can never keep track of? Intended as a trilogy but some ass plaguarized and "published" the first book under their own name so the actual autor rushed the ending on book teo, didn't start book thtree, and SB added the members-only original fiction section to be a place that was "private enough" for legal purposes, or something like that.

I, ah... for all I may joke about wanting funding for super-science programs and genuinely think more budget for basic research would continue to yield practical intermediate to long term results we haven't yet even seen a glimmer of in the new century as with the old, basing national policy on someone's militaria fanfiction is not even a plausible excuse, let alone a good idea. Like, I'm sure there are actual blue-sky contingency plans for a hostile alien invasion, but "GIANT! STOMPY! ROBOTS!" and "put the POTUS in a fighter jet with a washed up crop-duster as his wingman to nuke the mothership" are not going to be among them.