Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No they cannot. This is their big temper tantrum, they shot their wad. The US, GCC states, and the rest of the world will not allow them to just randomly interdict the global economy whenever they feel like it, indefinitely.
They don't need much of a 'wad' to disrupt the SOH for long enough to cause enormous economic pain. That's why it's called asymmetric.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Also while almost nobody in the US wants boots on ground, that is one way to secure the AG/SoH. I won't get into details but we don't need to seize the entire country
As if it's a secret, and therein lies the big problem. No wonder it got leaked from the top of the Pentagon that this would be a mess.