I don't think that any nation's "neutrality" is going to withstand the next major ( "World" ) war either, BB.

However, I think that the next major world war, if it happens, is going to have been caused by the USA, through the very kind of political attitudes that you yourself are tacitly supporting.

In other words, I think the USA is the author of its own misfortunes...just as Germany, Italy, and Japan were in the 30's and 40's.

And I think you are unwittingly assisting a propaganda effort that leads in a disastrous direction. I think you are unwittingly assisting people who are leading their country into committing outright aggression and destabilizing the entire world, and thereby risking another world war.

It has happened before, and it quite likely will happen again, only this time the USA is going to be the major perpetrator.

People just don't get it. They always think their own country must be "the good guy". Well, countries change roles back and forth as the decades and centuries go by. They all get to be the honest defender sometimes. They all get to be the lawless aggressor at other times. But their people never see them as the lawless agressor when that happens. They believe the home propaganda.

You are one who believes the home propaganda. You're on the wrong side this time, BB, in this great struggle of nations. You (as a collective political nation) are the perpetrators of this dangerous situation in the world, not the innocent victims of it. You are not the defenders of liberty and freedom. You are not the defenders of democracy. You are not the defenders of international law and justice. You are the great aggressor nation of this present era...and you persist in accusing other much smaller nations of your own crimes and your own criminal intentions. And then you attack them.

That is the same technique Hitler used, and his people believed him. It's the Big Lie. The majority of any populace will always believe their own government when it tells them that some other country is to blame for a war starting. Always. It's the easiest thing in the world to make them believe it.

That's how your government is fooling you. You have not BEEN attacked militarily by any other government or any other nation. You ARE the attackers of other governments and nations, and you constantly threaten further such attacks.

In your case, the threats are very real ones, and the world knows it. In Hitler's case also, the threats were very real ones, and the world knew it. When superpowers threaten, they are foreshadowing what they intend to do. They are preparing the public mindset to support military action. When small powers threaten, they are simply doing what a frightened dog does...they are barking as loudly as they can to keep their own spirits up and hopefully to dissuade a potential attacker from attacking. They're bluffing.

The USA, like Hitler, does not have to bluff. It possesses enough lethal power to carry out its threats, and it has repeatedly demonstrated the will to do so. Israel, likewise, does not have to bluff, and never does, because it possesses enough lethal power to carry out a threat. Iranians are the people who have the most reason to fear the near future, because they are being threatened by the superpower, and the superpower does not utter idle threats. Nor does Israel. Israel has several hundred atomic weapons, and the means to deliver them to the target.