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The difference is that the US homeland isn't used to feeling repercussions for it's foreign policy and aggression abroad. The US populace most certainly isn't hardy enough to suffer through extended power, water and connectivity outages because of diplomatic failures. It's not about forcing a surrender, but more about making hostilities and aggression unpalatable to the citizenry.

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It's historically rare for homeland "hardship" to be a fast path to victory. More likely it would induce a total war mentality and calls for reprisal attacks.

The British aisles hadn't seen war since the 1700s prior to WW1. Neither German strategic bombing in WW1 nor the much larger blitz in WW2 brought about surrender or capitulation.

Yes, this attacks are just the result of sanctions against those countries, we, over here in the US shouldn't be policing the world, if those countries want freedom they should rise up on their own, is hard, but have had happened in the past.

Hirohito and Hitler had similar thoughts about the US population. History tends to repeat itself

Neither Hirohito nor Hitler managed to strike the US mainland.

Generally true but there were a few small attacks on the mainland. While they didn't produce much damage they did provoke significant responses, particularly the attack on Ellwood which was used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Orleans

Amazing how good the US was at covering up the fire bombs sent to the Pacific Northwest, the shelling of the west coast, etc.

Not that they were huge casualty incidents, just amazing that most people believe the myth even today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Theater_(World_War_...

Well, I know about the few incidents. It's just that it wasn't really a strike, it was much moreso for show.

I mean, if Iran or North Korea directly and intentionally caused even a small forest fire today, no one would say its 'just for show,' but yeah I agree with you.

It rhymes. They taught Bin Laden how to provoke disproportionate retaliation to his own ends.

Nothing done by Hirohito or Hitler to the mainland US population compares to a sustained loss of power, fuel or communications.

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