Any individual or regime that is anti-freedom, anti-rights, that weaponises and enforces their totalitarian will thru force and terror needs to be dealt with in my view. The fact is the free developed nations of the world fight secret wars and skirmishes with these evildoers all the time. US spec ops seizing a boat from North Korea to Iran for example (wmd components,etc)....this has been going on for many years. The intel agencies, security services share info, leverage is established, operations are conducted. Much of it we will never know about. Ballyhooing about “oh heavens not a war” — mofos peace just doesn’t arrive by happenstance.
Gen. Dunford:
...” Strikes were done without coordination with Russia, and Russia was not pre-notified.... “We specifically identified these targets to mitigate the risk of Russian forces being involved.”