Fair enough.
Btw, thanks for linking that theatlantic article above. T-62M on the top banner which the site owners coded to occupy the better half of my screen was very scary and intimidating, only 50 years between them and South Korean K2 Black Panther MBTs. Furthermore, the Scud missiles mentioned in the article as anti-SK weapon have truly proven themselves against PATRIOT, this is why all countries involved in military conflicts give up at the sight of scuds and the Israelis have surrendered their land to Hamas.... Most people can't comprehend how much of a stone age NK lives in but media outlets need a story to sell, so there we go.
Well I'm very much open to changing my mind about that topic, but you have to do better than a few fancy terms.
Like, I really don't know much about military technology, but just about everything I found on the topic doesn't seem as optimistic as you, no matter if they're from sources I generally find reliable or garbage like the Huffington Post.
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/south-koreas-new-missile-defense-tech-isnt-cure-north-korea/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphj...el-a-rogue-north-korean-missile/#4a7d718b2d79
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/can-ballistic-missile-defense-shield-guam-north-korea
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05...e-defense-system-us-just-deployed-south-korea
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emanuel-pastreich/the-unbearable-sadness-of_b_11051426.html
https://www.quora.com/How-effective-is-THAAD-in-protecting-South-Korea-from-North-Korean-missiles
In fact, the only guy I found disagreeing with all that is, surprise surprise, from Lockheed Martin, who built THAAD
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...-worst-nightmare-everything-else-21498?page=2
And this is only about missiles, afaik that doesn't cover the conventional artillery NK got on Seoul mentioned in the Atlantic article and one or two of the sources above. Genuine question, are there defensive mechanisms protecting the city (and other parts of SK) from this threat as well, and how reliable are they?
Like seriously, I'm not trying to win an argument here, I'd like the opposite of what I'm saying very much to be true, but so far almost everything I've seen points to one conclusion, while the other is supported mainly by a random guy on an Internet forum, no offense.
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I doubt. The US has been to many wars, so the consequences are obvious. Still going to war with others is something American politicians promise to get votes. The we are the boss mentality is pretty strong. The US government is the most likely government to use nuclear weapons, yet American people are the most vocal about who should or should not be eligible to have such weapons.
You could argue that a lot of Americans have no idea about what war really means despite them being virtually constantly engaged in one because they take place thousands of miles away and neither they nor their immediate ancestors have seen war on US soil.
Not that Europeans are that much better, though here the memories of WWII & other stuff such as the Yugoslavian wars are still much closer, which probably has a part in the military not being as glorified as in the US.