Comment by tcdent
13 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.
Military action against whom? the US can’t even handle Iran let alone China.
Americans live in their own plane of reality, where they play the superhero surrounded by evil villains.
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.
> Clearly the US could conquer Iran
Vietnam (and Ukraine) would like a word
> 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”.
"I can afford ferrari. I just don't want to pay the price."