| ▲ | tcdent 8 hours ago |
| This is the part I find being left surprisingly hand-wavey. If you extrapolate it out, you see that it has a high likelihood of inciting physical force (read: military action) as a means of enforcement, so perhaps that's why nobody promoting ideals has been direct about it. |
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| ▲ | csomar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Military action against whom? the US can’t even handle Iran let alone China. |
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| ▲ | fmnxl 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Americans live in their own plane of reality, where they play the superhero surrounded by evil villains. | |
| ▲ | cavemandaveman 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | America doesn't want to pay the price of handling Iran. There's a difference. Clearly the US could conquer Iran but it requires a land war with mass casualties, not just sporadic bombing. Obviously China is in an entirely different league. | | |
| ▲ | le-mark an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > America doesn't want to pay the price of handling Iran. And Iran has wisely not provoked the US public by launching terrorist attacks against the “homeland”. | |
| ▲ | pibaker an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | "I can afford ferrari. I just don't want to pay the price." |
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