> the entire history of Earth. History has a lot of reprisal attacks too, vengeances etc. Not a road to go down lightly with any nation, let alone China. IDK

> the entire history of Earth. History has a lot of reprisal attacks too, vengeances etc. Not a road to go down lightly with any nation, let alone China. IDK, I hesitate to call thinking that this is a simple or good idea "very American", but a certain sector of American internet forum commenting civilians do tend to think this way. Serious people, American or otherwise, not so much.