When asked what gave him the idea for the flagpoles, Trump answered: "I've had it for a long time. In the first term I had it, but, you know, you guys were after me. I said I had to focus. I was the hunted. And now I'm the hunter. There's a big difference."
Israelis saying it is illegal for Iran to hit hospitals is just about the bottom of what I needed to see.
That said calling it a "good hit" is also just not on my radar as decent, either.
21st century war has a ridiculously vivid peanut gallery. And I'm not sure what that will do for conflict.
In the 1960s and 1970s USA the US news turned on the US government and began showing the horror of war on the 6 o'clock news. It left US Americans queasy.
But social media has flipped that bit. Now combat footage of body parts from all ages are everywhere on the internet. And it is clear what is hath wrought.
options are about buying contracts to purchase or sell some thing in multiples at a price named in the contract.
the contract can be sold to someone else later. if you decide to actually use the contract ... it is called exercising that option ... and it means that you can buy or sell the item in the contract at the price in the contract rather than the market price.
and they usually have an expiration date. if the option expires nothing changed hands and nothing on the contract happens.
it is a financial derivative.
Well technically that is not an abbreviation. That is a portmanteau.