I'd argue that they probably should have with Germany but it was the correct response with Japan as their actions not only broke the propaganda about the savage Americans (barring incidents in Okinawa around their military personnel there) but also broke the Emperor being a God which is what led to such zealotry fighting them.
I would more argue that the empathy was directed in a wrong way as with raising pets, sometimes you have to punish bad behaviour in order to stop it. You can't go 'poor victim, they don't know better!' as it leads to the current predicament but you also can't constantly subjugated everyone for the resource cost and when you falter you're fucked.
You sort of have to do one big show of force to something against you, eliminating as much as possible then stopping and pulling back. It spreads the fear of what you're capable of while the knowledge that if you comply you live in relative peace.
Sorta. Proportional can also work. Like giving the japs a few days to surrender before the 2nd nuke, rather than 3 nukes on same day. But yea, not sure how long ignoring and gaslighting border/inflation/etc. can last.
According to the spooks, china knows they can subvert america because unless americans die, we no longer care. And that is direct deaths, not druggies or lab leak. So only if americans are killed, we overreact. (Not sure I believe that. As with Covid and BLM, half the nation is happy to just consume the media narrative.)
Deep state might even report navy seals "drowning" rather than if the truth was that they were gunned down by Houthis so biden looks good and keep low oil prices.
I'd argue that they probably should have with Germany but it was the correct response with Japan as their actions not only broke the propaganda about the savage Americans (barring incidents in Okinawa around their military personnel there) but also broke the Emperor being a God which is what led to such zealotry fighting them.
I would more argue that the empathy was directed in a wrong way as with raising pets, sometimes you have to punish bad behaviour in order to stop it. You can't go 'poor victim, they don't know better!' as it leads to the current predicament but you also can't constantly subjugated everyone for the resource cost and when you falter you're fucked.
You sort of have to do one big show of force to something against you, eliminating as much as possible then stopping and pulling back. It spreads the fear of what you're capable of while the knowledge that if you comply you live in relative peace.
Sorta. Proportional can also work. Like giving the japs a few days to surrender before the 2nd nuke, rather than 3 nukes on same day. But yea, not sure how long ignoring and gaslighting border/inflation/etc. can last.
According to the spooks, china knows they can subvert america because unless americans die, we no longer care. And that is direct deaths, not druggies or lab leak. So only if americans are killed, we overreact. (Not sure I believe that. As with Covid and BLM, half the nation is happy to just consume the media narrative.)
Deep state might even report navy seals "drowning" rather than if the truth was that they were gunned down by Houthis so biden looks good and keep low oil prices.
To be fair, a few American soldiers died in a drone attack in Jordan, the Middle East now know how terrifying the B-ONE bomber is...