| Not really. Most countries don't face realistic threat of invasion, especially post world war 2. Over the last 50 years, the probability of anyone invading france, canada, australia, etc has been next to 0. The only countries that really had to worry are the ones that straddle the regions of influence during the cold war. |
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| ▲ | ajsnigrutin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | But that's mostly true because those countries are rich and fly half the world away to attack poorer countries and usually by bombing them from far away. Eg syrians can't realistically gather enough money and weapons and planes and bombs to bomb paris. Or iraqis london. Etc. On the other hand, they can gather a few fanatics, give them guns and have them shoot a bunch of people, or bomb something, or worse. But then we get the "why did those people get radicalized? was it GTA?" articles. TBH, considering the number of dead in palestine and the number of people in europe/us who literally lost everyone who ever mattered to them, the number of "terrorist" attacks seems relatively low. | | |
| ▲ | bawolff 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why is that relavent? The point is that some countries have more immediate security fears then others. It doesn't matter what structural factors lead to that. Countries with realistic security fears are going to invest differently than those that don't. Countries like people do whatever they think is in their best interest. If your point is the world is unfair, then yes obviously that is true, nobody disputes that. |
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| ▲ | pvaldes 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > the probability of anyone invading france, canada, australia, etc has been next to 0. Good for them. They learned to cooperate with their neighbors, created alliances and friends, and restrained to kill other people. If you have one enemy, the enemy is the problem If everybody else is your enemy, YOU are the problem. Check your behavior and see if you can improve as human being. | | |
| ▲ | YZF 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is an extremely weak argument. Pre-1967 Israel didn't control the West Bank or Gaza. So most of the bad stuff people claim about Israel today didn't really exist. Yet all its neighbours wanted to destroy it. Lebanon who in theory should have no dispute with Israel bombarded it with ten's of thousands of rockets, mortars, anti-tank munitions etc. After Oct 7th. The bit you're missing in your overly simplistic analysis is that Israel is really surrounded/attacked by a single religious/political ideology. There is no "everybody else here". | | |
| ▲ | pvaldes 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And what you are missing is that Israel acts don't call for friendship even in the people that would want this friendship. Israel has stolen as much military and industrial secrets from US as they could grab. Has violated every international law. There are strong suspicions to be behind Epstein honey trap for riches and politicians all around USA and Europe. Has funded Hamas. Has an horrible relationship with human rights, longer than the bible. Has called non Jews "human animals", and acted accordingly, even to the point of doing competitions about "who can destroy more kneecaps or shoot more testicles in a week", among starving people that were trying to obtain food none less. Has treated 5Yo children like partridges in a hunting party. Has killed thousands of journalists, doctors, nurses and NGO staff without even trying to pretend that they care. Has put spy devices in friend's phones each time they could. Was caught messing with the elections in UK. Has used, discarded, and left each politician that supported them, alone and hanging dry in the elections, from Biden, to Trump, to Merz. US does not want the demise of Israel, but Israel does not even try to pretend that they respect the opinion of US. Even after all this time, is all grab and cash. And US is always cleaning the mess that they left behind. And the only thing that we can hear from them is "Why everybody hates us?" Really?. Clean your acts first. |
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| ▲ | bawolff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > If everybody else is your enemy, YOU are the problem Because morality is a numbers game? If Israel nuked everyone but one of their enemies, would they be in the right, as then they would have only one enemy? |
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