Quote: The example serves as a threat to all socalled "US opposing" nations, without the need to say it loud. The recent warnings to Iran, France, N-Korea, Syria, etc, gained considerable impact, is it not?
Syria: Yes.
Iran: Probably.
But the other two don´t really fit into that list.
The US will definately not risk any kind of military confrontation with N-Korea, and N-Korea knows that.
France: I can see no "impact" whatsoever here. FranceGermanyEurope(Russia) is too strong itself (politically, economically, military) to be impressed by that kind of pressure from the US.
Moldran
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p.s.: But what the Iraq conflict did show is that the axis Paris-Berlin-(Moscow) is not (yet) strong enough to really integrate its peripherical countries into one firm power block. I wish I could have seen the impression on the Euro-Strategists´ faces when they learned that countries like Denmark and Czechia (sp?) refused to subordinate themselves :)