I am trying to be understanding about diplomatic manuvers in situations like that.....
but part of me screams in anger that the whole fucking world has the United States in checkmate...everyone knows we have the ability and power to decimate them if we so wished, but everyone assumes we have lost the balls to be able to do so.
One day though....someone will push too far, and we are not going to be able to sit back and just wonder in puzzlement what 5 enemy boats coming at us in threatening and decidedly aggresive manners "mean" by it.
Every situation comes to a point where action is the ONLY reaction.