Everybody thinks Americans are like everybody else on the planet. We are not.
From Lexington/Concord to Jefferson's "No deals" with the Barbary pirates to "NUTS"! at Bastonge - we are like no other peoples in history.
That's what vexes the libtards about guns - why don't we just fall in line like everybody else?
The Americans had left Vladivostok after our intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1920.
And you could pick up a newspaper and read about how shocked Americans were about the casualties and cost of WWI.
The war weariness of the West was a common theme.
Everybody thinks Americans are like everybody else on the planet. We are not...
The rest of the world consistently fails to understand HOW the United States is different. Even the Confederate States failed to grasp the impossible reality of forcing a negotiated peace to end the Civl War that would allow them to secede.
Others forget or never knew what it took for people to come here, create a nation out of wilderness, survive, and prosper. They do not understand what most of them were leaving from.
They cannot comprehend how much the patriots who founded this country detested and feared large, powerful, centralized governments. Therefore, they cannot understand the true basis and reason for the Second Amendment.
The United States may to slow to anger, but once we go to war, the "diplomats" and "politicians" get to Shut the Front Door and Color.
We may be magnanimous in our treatment of a defeated foe, but imposing Unconditional Surrender on our enemies is hard-wired into our DNA.
Clausewitz (and most of the rest of the world) is flat out wrong in thinking that War is the continuation of politics by other means. It is much more important than that, it is about national survival. If it comes to war, the United States wins, and our enemies lose, completely, totally, and unconditionally.