B_Larson

The War in Iraq lasted 8 years and cost over 1 trillion dollars.

So aside from the immense risk of starting a war with a nation right next door to you, …aside from the fact that there would be no clear strategic objectives, it would also cost a fortune.

If the US wass really serious about supporting the Mexican government against the cartels, then they would start with increasing financial aid to said government. But these very same people would probably be against that idea.

I think it bears pointing out that both the UK and France have their own nuclear weapons and are ultimately not beholden to the US.

So encouraging Russian aggression with the implicit notion that the US wouldn’t do anything in response to an attack actually makes nuclear war more likely because even if we didn’t respond… they would still feel compelled to.

Yea some of these are pretty cherry picked.

I mean “the Roman Empire” in the loosest term, from the beginning of Rome’s expansion out of Italy, to the fall of Constantinople in the east, was over 1700 years.

And the Ottoman Empire was still very much alive and threatening Europe into the 18th century before they began their terminal decline.