There's a scale, here. "Somone crashed into the bridge support pillar in the median and the bridge fell down" sounds like the fault of the engineer. "A foreig

There's a scale, here. "Somone crashed into the bridge support pillar in the median and the bridge fell down" sounds like the fault of the engineer. "A foreign nation sent a fighter jet" doesn't. I don't have any ideas on how to have a reasonable standard of "this is the sort of attack you shouldn't fall to," though. How do you keep this from being years outdated very quickly?