[Tanya will give him one thing; if he keeps it brief, there's not enough time for the explanation to get away from him. Partial credit on the answer itself.]

Is it really punishment, though? In the first situation you described, it wasn't the population that he attacks that caused the "nuclear fallout," whatever that is, which agitated and empowered him in the first place. That sounds more like an animal lashing out than a purposeful defense of his territory's borders.

[She's also fulfilling her orders to bother this man.]