It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don't.
"If American missile systems can nearly reach Moscow from Ukrainian territory, it's time for Russia to roll out something powerful closer to the American 'city on a hill'," said Olga Skabeyeva on the news show on Rossiya-1, the most popular Russian TV channel.
The usual crew of panelists hugged themselves with delight at the idea of American cities being blown away. "Objects like the city of New York, a good city, but it would be gone. Completely gone with one rocket," said one.
