Are we threatened? Or are we playing hypothetical games? Is this a real threat or hyperbole? Violence is done against free people. Force is what free people use in their pursuit of care paying attention to the protection of their happiness.
If we train in the martial arts it is to starve fear to cultivate care. When we are threatened we allow the violent opposition to know that we care about what we have built and we through force will remove the opposition carefully and permanently.
We do not need to go on a voyage to appease a fiction of he did what to him over there. These violent journeys are meant to distract you from caring, building and living. There are humans who ignorantly live for fear, violence, cowardice and conflict. These humans spend their lives throwing away the gift of being human.
In the spring, under Mars on Tuesday in March the Army after cultivating went about righting wrongs. Meanwhile at home the senators played with the wives of soldiers, the sol diers who lost everything in a myth that civilization was cultivated by war.