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Let's just go with sitherin. Sitherinurendo.

Bigotry (against the snakes at the least, amusingly enough), ambition (mostly related to underperforming his siblings), somewhat questionable loyalty and a degree of willingness to undercut folks. He still belonged in gryffindor by and large, but he definitely seemed to express a good chunk of green lot traits.

Fun question: To what extent do you think do these two have a rivalry going? Where specifically does this rivalry come from? How does it manifest?

Probably not much, really. The two houses had one of the few interhouse relationships mentioned in the books, and they seemed fairly disinclined towards mimicking the behavior of the red and green houses. Still, main friction point is probably differences in social inclination, if I had to guess. Claws seem notably more inclined against collective stuff, and more likely to turn on themselves, which probably rubs the puffs the wrong way, with something similar on the other side of things.

It'd probably just manifest as avoidance, though. One way or another neither seem inclined to wasting much time or much effort on rivalry that could be spent elsewhere, in contrast to the more noisy groups that are basically grouped up based on their inclination towards engaging in conflict and/or getting involved in social dominance plays. Maybe a degree of competition in certain fields (sports, mostly, maybe studies with the two having an edge in different areas). They kinda' seem like they're were mostly chillin' as the other two houses tear into each other and largely ignore the sidelined pair.

Everything else is just rumors, but the lack of damage does seem to indicate that they were ready for the strike (though only ~20 actually hit the base so that might have something to do with it too.)

Huh. Where are you seeing reports that 2/3rds of the missiles didn't hit the base? Because if that's accurate it would be yet another bloody strange thing about the mess. Tomahawks don't seem to normally display a 30-ish percent accuracy rate.

... and that trump shouldn't be commander in chief, since he either didn't have the area checked for non-combatants or didn't care. So far as that scenario goes. I'd be willing to try squishing them together and seeing if they cancel out, though, if we're doing this kind of conjecture.

E: Honestly, I think my next check is to see whether the russian PM was correct about the congressional approval thing. After attempting a nap, if I don't forget/get distracted. If they were, it'd put much less ambiguity on whether what he did was a violation of american law and/or executive power.

Believe it or not, I'm more positive towards this than the majority of things Trump has done. My long-standing concern was that Trumpu-sempai's total lack of geopolitical understanding would lead him to follow his Russophile supporters and back Assad, effectively ensuring Russian dominance in the region. That seems to be impossible now, unless Trump really is going to turn around and roll over for the Russians in public.

It might still be on the books, actually. One of the more noticeable side notes to this whole shitshow is apparently that basically the only notable casualty in the attack was a syrian general known to be an opponent of assad. Maybe there won't be public roll over, but events seem to still be capable of this turning into following the rus.

Nah, you could freeze it or something. Then it'd be a cold irradiated potato. Still probably want to drop it about as quickly, though.

Spurred, maybe not. Take advantage of a giftwrapped opportunity, well...

Gods, now my sleep deprived mind is imaging russia demands the US stop or guarantee no more economic sanctions for the affront. The optics on that, particularly if the trump administration acquiesced, would be farcically terrible.

Eh, there's conflicting reports. Some say dead russians, some say they were warned and there were few casualties even among the syrians. Way too early to really say, this happened less than a day ago.

Part of me suddenly wonders if it actually matters if any russians were killed or not, though. If there were no soldiers in ukraine, why the hell are the potential soldiers in that base going to be anything except exactly as dead as putin and co. wants them to be, regardless of whether russian military got caught in the attack?