If those angry little people over there with just stop acting like a ferocious Yorkshire terrier.
The whole “machismo” shaking their fists and swearing “revenge” is so impotent!
I think about what would happen if Sweden was the victim here:
First, they wouldn’t have had generals walking around saying “we are about to blow up a great big building in Washington DC“ and just acting “all tough“ and inviting retaliation. Sure, it rallies equally stupid support from people who just love to shake their fists and be angry all the time.
But a civilized society like Sweden, not only would they speak softly and carry a big stick, if the United States assassinated one of their generals, they would use that to their political advantage and look like “the little guy or underdog”. Instead of launching uan emasculated rocket barrage that couldn’t even kill people on a local US base, and shaking their fists and swearing “revenge“, Sweden would probably issue a statement that said“ we ask the United States to cease this aggression, we are ill-equipped to resist your bullying.“ And other things that would generate global sympathy as opposed to global snickers and jeering.
It’s just unsophisticated to start saying “we’re going to start building nuclear weapons” as if the United States is going to sit around and let that happen. As soon as they get close to success, they’re going to be erased from the map. Don’t they understand that?
I guess what I’m getting at, is that if I was Iran, and someone had just assassinated one of my generals, I would play the victim. I would not pretend to be an angry Little Chihuahua jumping from foot to foot trying to bite the cuff of the man who kicked me.
There is absolutely nothing effective, or strategic about threatening the United States. In the final analysis, if they create a scenario that comes down to “us versus them“ we are going to look out for the United States interests and citizens.
While it is exciting, and stirs up the people, I must observe that “martyrdom“ is not the basis of a good global diplomatic foreign policy.
