We’ve been sending the wrong defense signals for quite some time now. It’s been twenty years since we started dismantling our military. Who thought some other nation would take note.
If a nation like North Korea has, does anyone think China or Russia has?
The Kenyan is busy cutting as much of our military might as he can. So yes, now we have adventurism for the first time in decades. It’s only going to get worse folks.
That is exactly what started the Korean War. In 1950 US Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that South Korea was not within its defense permiter -- so North Korea took that as a green light to take over South Korea.