I just figured out why no country is attacking us, though we're obviously in a weakened state.

[Baitball Blogger]

It's because of that old saying, "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself."

If they did attack, they might interfere with the momentum that Trump has sustained, dividing this country and taking us apart one Constitutional law after the other.

[unblock]

1. I'd say there's a faulty premise involved

I think we *are* under attack, and other countries have a big hand in it, Russia in particular.

That said, they are not alone, and they certainly have plenty of domestic assistance in their efforts. A very unfortunate confluence of evil interests.

[JoseBalow]

2. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Sun Tzu, The Art of War (5th century BCE)

Also from Sun Tzu...

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

[fujiyamasan]

3. Attacking the US militarily hasn't made sense in decades

It’s all been asymmetric warfare.

Russia realized our main weakness were capitalist social media enterprises, and weaponized that perfectly in 2016. It was cheap, and didn’t require a single bullet. In their reasoning the people in this country were ripe for this sort of division. They exploited this as well or better than they did during the col war when southern governors set dogs loose on civil rights activists.

This time, they just needed a few people that would do their bidding and they found that in Zuckerberg and Trump. As long as the money was coming in they didn’t give a fuck.

Ever since, they (and China) mostly had to sit back and do more of the same.

[Vinca]

4. What is scary to me is that no one needs to attack us in a conventional manner. All they need is one

sacrificial lamb to enter the country with a deadly, contagious virus and travel here, there and everywhere. With Trump and Brainboy leading the response, we're all dead meat.