Putin called the weapon an 'excellent New Year's gift to the nation.'

Twenty years ago, the Soviets took what they called the 'extreme measure ... to strike your ship with one of ours.' It didn't go as planned.

Bush played it smart.

'This is America … a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.'

Obama spoke at a Miami rally,  where he plugged the candidacy of Democrat Andrew Gillum.

It is difficult for a nation to proclaim that it is "fully prepared" for a war with the U.S. when its one and only aircraft carrier is taken out of commission by a dock accident.

'The INF Treaty restricts the U.S. and Soviet Union (now Russia) from producing or testing ground-launched, conventional and nuclear cruise and ballistic missiles and associated launchers with a range of 500 to 5,500 km.'

And they're every bit as violent as you would imagine.

When you turn on a faucet in the Venezuela's biggest city now, you'd be lucky to get a drop of water.

There is a new sense of strength and purpose into American defense in the revived 2nd Fleet.