Day 1,962: adversary, cowed, muster, conventional

He likes to say he is so unpredictable that America’s adversaries will be too cowed to try anything.

If they cannot muster enough conventional weapons to deter the local aggressor, some of them may follow Britain and France and seek to acquire nuclear weapons.

Welcome to Trump’s world

Artwork of the day 
Cavalier over a fallen adversary
Titian
Date: 1562 - 1564
Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Genre: sketch and study
Location: Private Collection

Word of the day 
adversary: an enemy:
cowed: frightened by threats or violence into doing something :
muster: to produce or encourage something such as an emotion or support:
conventional: used to refer to weapons that are not nuclear, or to methods of fighting a war that do not involve nuclear weapons: traditional and ordinary:

Quote of the day
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”

― Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy