I am not going to derail the threat further. All I am going to say you tunnel vision media and anime as only soft power. Those are rightfully laughable. There are more to soft powers. Reputation, prestige, and track record of being just is also very much soft power. I think you would agree with that. The same way hard power is not always about how many aircraft carriers you have.
Was there some misunderstanding? Did you not advocate attacking or invading a country as they were acting within their sovereign rights? Because that's tyranny. But if not, then this argument is somewhere else and I don't know what you're saying. You can lay out your bottom line clearly here for what actions China can take on a Japan or Korea that will simply not break its military alliance with the US and we can go from there. My bottom line is to turn them into pariahs with broken economies, technologically inferior to the countries that follow China.
It's hardly possible to derail the misc news thread.
Reputation/track record (depending on a reputation/track record of what), prestige are built with the successes achieved by hard power. The ability to break and remake alliances by economic, diplomatic and technological coercion, with a military to prevent interruptions to your success, are all hard power. Not turning into the exact kind of monster you wanted to destroy... that doesn't even qualify as any kind of power; it's just the normalcy of sanity and common decency.
The other wars in which a large number of Muslims died were heavily contested by both sides and were prolonged. But in Gaza, the slaughter is utterly lopsided, on an industrial level, and occurred in a very short period of time.
We only hate the Jewish regime, not the Jewish people! Oh yeah? You think you are being funny? No more free speech for your!
I did, and I don't accept that as sufficient to constitute tyranny.
Sure. The bottom line is this.
you cannot separate armed force from soft power. when societies become wealthy it is hard to attract mentally and physically healthy recruits and it has become even more difficult post Covid. and than you need even more soft power to make armed force effective for prolong warfare.
