Absolutely, to be clear I'm not at all saying that all Americans are bloodthirsty or anything like that, I have several American friends. I'm more worried about

Absolutely, to be clear I'm not at all saying that all Americans are bloodthirsty or anything like that, I have several American friends. I'm more worried about something like a post-9/11 moment, where there's a relatively unified populace and a clear target for hatred, but because said target can't be meaningfully hurt the US just starts lashing out at anyone vaguely associated. I'm worried it will be worse because in this case it wouldn't be "We can't hurt them because we don't know where they are" but "We can't hurt them because they're locally stronger than us and they have nuclear weapons". I'm not sure how many Americans will genuinely, truly understand that you can't treat a nuclear power as though it's Iraq or Japan and you're going to Desert Storm or Hiroshima your way through their military and population, not if you want America as a civilisation to survive.