... rodents(mice) where the #1 threat to ballistic missiles. The future missile force officers were taught in one of their classes that missile silos should be kept mice free, because mice like to snack on insulation covering wires in all those 50-100 wire cables.

Why am I not even compelled to try it out?

May be because the only Microsoft product line I (ever) like(d) is the MS mice.
(I lied, I really liked MS Word in 1988 after trying out Word Perfect, but stayed with LaTeX anyway)

Please fix the factual error - Tatarstan is neither tiny (it is bigger then Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) or independent.