This is not surprising to me. After the disaster in Iraq Americans want no more in the Middle east. If they get nukes— just turn them to glass if they use one on OUR soil!!. We did that with the Soviets and they crumbled in fear of annihilation. Sovereign countries like England, France, Russia, Pakistan, India, China , North Korea, Israel, do sovereign things. You cannot stop them because you have no right to stop them. We intuitively know that we have no right to tell any sovereign nation what to do.
Notice that you didn’t mention Germany. :(
So, when country “d” and country “e” flatten each other and the radiation drifts HERE, uh, who you gonna “glass”?