He really just expects us to turn off our brain and take what he says at face value
missa Trump, you bombed them day and night for like 2 weeks straight and they just ATE IT, your telling me a week with a shoddy blockade is going to break their will?
I threw this example around when people though economic sanctions would defeat russia
Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, held out for FIFTEEN YEARS, against an international blockade, this is a tiny land locked, AFRICAN, nation on the bottom of the world THE WHOLE WORLD BLOCKADED, it took 15 years still.
humans are tough as nails man, you put them in a no win scenario with their back to the wall your going to see some fight.
also its not 1:1 but prior to ww2 in 1936 Italy colonized the last bit of Africa, Ethiopia. In response to this, despite having MASSIVE overseas colonys the western powers sanctioned Italy and drove them right into the arms of Hitler, in ww1 italy was an ally of the west and likely would have continued to be if not for this extreme hypocrisy.