> Well, when you're too timid to occupy defeated enemies, you get another war. The US occupied Germany for decades. At first, very clearly, killing substantial

> Well, when you're too timid to occupy defeated enemies, you get another war. The US occupied Germany for decades. At first, very clearly, killing substantial numbers of resistance fighters. And then more subtly and covertly. Its occupying force was ostensibly to ward off the Soviet Union, but there was a domestic role as well. And its policies in Japan were similar. That's the thing about the US. While there are numerous well-known examples of ham-handedness, US interventions have generally been so subtle and covert that their mention is readily discounted as conspiracy theory.