Yup, this is an important part of the picture.
We must build the intellectual structure to resist military force deployed in the name of international “law”, even though that can’t happen (to us) for at least 20 years.
We have set very bad precedents in Serbia and Kuwait (GW I), and the runup to Iraq wasn’t much better.
We must be crystal clear in our own minds, and teach our children, why what we did to Serbia and Saddam would be impermissible if done to us by Europe and the Chinese.
Where do you get your 20 year number?