Ask any street cop what happens when someone weaker (and both sides know they are weaker) keeps enduring one humiliating insult after another.
Eventually, even an earthworm will do something and it’s usually very unexpected. This “they won’t hit back” game will end one day, and it should sicken Americans to risk that for a bunch of Sunni head choppers.
When you start a war with the idea, they’ll never fight back, you are in good company.
The Japs thought Pearl Harbor would quickly wind up with us suing for peace.
The Germans thought “if you kick in the door the whole Russian rotten house would cave in”.
We thought the Norks would never attack south and had a woefully underprepared occupation force there.
In WWI, people expected a short war of a few weeks.
In the Civil war people expected a few weeks at most and took picnics to the battlefield.
History is fulled with the hubris of “they won’t dare resist” Or “they will fold in a few months in the face of our power”.
Next thing you know you’re in a helicopter leaving the roof of the embassy in Saigon.
Good post.
Everyone in our government should read your comment - and then publicly declare if they think a war with Russia is a good idea, even if it is unlikely.