They won’t. And its not enough. A perfect example is what happened with our closest ally Israel. Olmert’s government had a favorable media during the Lebanon/Hezbollah war that no rightist government could even dream of. So what? Indecisiveness, half-steps, impotence - Israel did not lose the war per se, but lost aura of a superior, dominant local superpower that nobody should even think to mess with. They recovered a bit of that reputation with bombing of Syria’s nuclear installation, but you see my point. With a weakling in power, even favorable media is not a protection against menace out there.
I agree.