that confident dismissive attitude is among one of the worst to experience in person. Impossible to talk with these people..
And to the arguments shared, it will be interesting/scary to see, with tech development since ww1/2, how "isolated" may be a less important factor in modern war. One swift strike to our communication satellites can quickly involve every citizen in the country/world. Our interconnectedness and reliance on global commerce, seems to make it so things can get uglier faster..hopefully i am wrong