Just ask yourself, why are there all these crooked foreign leaders that make a living of antagonizing the US? If the US is really so powerful because of its nukes, why don't they just surrender?
Yeah, and there's also limits due to physical laws and other such things. I thought "does as it pleases" covered things like war costs.
>Also, virtually of the foreign interventions done by the US in the last decades have been failures.
Depends on their purpose. To destabilize a region, or prevent them from dealing with euro currency and such, they worked well.
>Just ask yourself, why are there all these crooked foreign leaders that make a living of antagonizing the US? If the US is really so powerful because of its nukes, why don't they just surrender?
Because they have this thing called dignity.
Who would they get flak from? They are the top dog. They can point fingers on others for even thinking of having nukes, invade countries that don't have nukes, and generally do as it pleases. And they can always say they did it to end the war sooner (which of course anyone can use to justify any such mass civilian killing in a war).