It's difficult to understand what the purpose of this article is. Firstly, it's intellectually incoherent - no one in the USA has voted for any military action for decades, yet the US has certainly deployed force on several occasions during that time. Secondly, the argument that merely because the West is hopelessly naive and clueless, one must not bother to make any attempt to counter aggression lest flaky third-world countries sign up for Chinese trolling, is at best confused and at worst indicates an incapacity to see past trivia.