>Everybody will see that you can invade a weaker country, for whatever made up reason, and nothing happens. I think that most people who make foreign policy de

>Everybody will see that you can invade a weaker country, for whatever made up reason, and nothing happens. I think that most people who make foreign policy decisions in countries around the world already knew that if you are strong enough, you can invade a weaker country, for whatever reason, and nothing happens. This is just plain common sense and has been discussed going back to Thucydides' Melian Dialogue or earlier. And if anyone somehow did not realize that the strong can get away with invading the weak, they should have realized it in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq.