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Why can't US do the same with North Korea, Iran? US seems to pick fights (Afghanistan, Iraq, vietnam etc) where they know the other side does not have nuclear
by sudeepj 6y ago
Why can't US do the same with North Korea, Iran?
US seems to pick fights (Afghanistan, Iraq, vietnam etc) where they know the other side does not have nuclear deterrence.
- asdff 6y agoWell that is exactly why. Could you imagine the fallout of NK or Iran using nuclear weapons on an invading US allied force? It would unleash a clusterfuck of untold effects worldwide and probably a lot of death. There is a reason why they haven't been used in any conflict since WWII despite all this chaos in this world, they are a powder keg. In the case of desert storm, The US along with 34 other countries were coming to aid of Kuwait which Iraq invaded and annexed over an oil spat.
- mrtksn 6y agoProbably because not many consider the end result as a success. They might have lost the war but guess who gets the cavity search before boarding the plane to visit grandma. Guess who is freer after enjoys more privacy after the war relatively to before the war. The war no longer ends at the battlefield. To have a nice old school nationalistic wars you have no choice but to have a civil war first to weed out people that aspire anything else than nationalistic pride first.