Originally Posted by
Eshnolat
I'm surprised there are people who think we are actually in physical danger of a military strike.
Things probably would've gotten a little messy had the US attacked Syria, but even then I have serious doubts about what the scale of military retaliation towards us locally would have been.
It probably would have been another proxy war.
Sure, it may make people feel cool to be like
"America, man. Our military is so badass there's no way anyone would pineapple with us."
To personally identify with that Alpha image.
But the reality is in terms of war they're either irrelevant or fighting other smaller countries' battles, where our right to be involved is questionable at best and our motives are seriously misrepresented to generate public approval to feed the military industrial complex.
There is a very very good reason 100% of the wars fought between powerful nations over the past couple decades have been proxy wars.
We are the world consumer, and the world is now extremely interdependent. We are a HUGE part of the economy, regardless of the role.
A first world nation attacking another first world nation directly would be that nation shooting itself in the foot, cutting off it's nose to spite it's face. They would be seriously hurting themselves economically.
i.e. Probably not going to happen
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