Location

Tartus

Tartus sits as a salt-stung coastal port city whose shoreline converts distance into accusation. Wind and shipping lanes frame a hard maritime horizon; maps snap its name into a single strategic coordinate when disaster strikes 150 miles to its north. The city functions as a geopolitical anchor — a place that compresses grief, operational urgency, and diplomatic alarm into one reachable point on the map, suggesting naval approaches, supply routes, and contested waters.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Tolliver Killed — Presidential Crisis

Tartus is invoked as the geographic reference point — the transport exploded about 150 miles north of Tartus — anchoring the event spatially and directing operational lines of inquiry and potential military options.

Atmosphere

Distant, geopolitical — a coastal point that helps convert abstract intelligence into a map of response.

Functional Role

Geographic reference for situational awareness and operational planning.

Symbolic Significance

Marks the foreign horizon where U.S. moral and military reach will have to extend.

Sea-washed coastline as a map marker Distances measured in miles that convert to operational timelines

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Private Condolence and Quiet Fury

Tartus is invoked as the geographic reference point — the explosion occurred about 150 miles north of it — anchoring the incident in Syrian coastal geography and shaping military and diplomatic plotting.

Atmosphere

Geographic marker — distant, strategic, and implicated in operational calculations.

Functional Role

Geographic reference that situates the incident for targeting, reconnaissance, and regional response.

Symbolic Significance

Serves as a strategic coordinate that quickly converts tragedy into calculable military geography.

Salt-stung coastal imagery implicit in the name Proximity used to calculate flight paths and attribution

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Tolliver Killed — Presidential Crisis

Leo delivers devastating intelligence: an air transport carrying Dr. Morris Tolliver and dozens of aid workers has been destroyed, and hard evidence points to an order from the Syrian defense …

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Private Condolence and Quiet Fury

In the Oval Office, Leo delivers devastating intelligence: Morris Tolliver and dozens of medical personnel died when their transport exploded, with hard data pointing at the Syrian defense ministry. The …