I have trouble making them up now. In Debt of Honor in 1994, when I had the Japanese taking us on, that was a bit of a stretch. Terrorism is a police matter. If a terrorist is sponsored and supplied by a nation state, then it's an act of war. Enough to annoy you, yes.
Terrorism is a buzzing mosquito on a summer night.
With the Russians, it was a rabid vampire bat. If he kills American citizens with chemical weapons, we'll turn his country into a parking lot. He doesn't want to be president of a parking lot. Everything he does has a primary objective of keeping him alive. He's in a business with no pension plan.