Who else would they rely on, against those who menace & threaten them? Where else would they get intelligence? An island is surrounded by a military force. Who

Who else would they rely on, against those who menace & threaten them? Where else would they get intelligence? An island is surrounded by a military force. Who else is there in the world for them to talk to. I got flagged for saying this in about the same terms, with a tad more emotional more slant. But this is just the straight facts. This is the situation. This is what's being done to this island, to this place that considers themselves & has ruled themselves as a reasonable decent Republic for a long time now. And it raises the neoconservative dilemna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism), the question of how interventionalist should America be & whether the world has an obligation to try to help suffering people & whether anyone should do anything or not. I'm a hacker. So I love to ask: what other framings do folks see? I obviously have a stance here, but I think I've done an ok job laying out the basics of the situation, shown the tensions that exist. What other framings are there? What else sounds right to you? Let's test the metal here; isn't that exchange of viewpoints the very Hacker spirit itself?