[reformedliberal]

... thinking backwards...
_______________________________________

When all parties to a defense pact combine forces against a single, supposedly poorer, less-equipped, & less trained, opponent, the former ceases to be a defense alliance and becomes an offensive force. Striking back at bullies is often the only successful defense.

There are a glaring similarities in globo tactics in both C19 & Russia:

They never consider that stressed organisms adapt and evolve, nor that entire ecosystems are then destabilized in unforeseeable ways.

Come to think of it, the same mistakes are apparent in the televised back-patting fest being held in Davos.

Some sort of narcissism-induced selective blindness?

[adorno]

When all parties to a defense pact combine forces against a single, supposedly poorer, less-equipped, & less trained, opponent

That's a lot of hogwash (I was going to say B.S. but, hogwash sounds less hostile).

When a poorer and less-equipped and less trained nation becomes hostile and invades a neighboring nation, or when it becomes a nation what wants to eliminate certain peoples from its population (like Hitler and like Muslims do with Christians), and when that nation uses banned weapons (like banned chemicals or biological weapons), then, that country has to be stopped. Doesn't matter the size of the country; what matters is the size of its aggression or the size of its unspeakable acts.

So, is Israel a country that deserves protections against its hostile neighbors, or should Israel just forget everything and surrender to the aggressor(s)? (Just an example, mind you).