Consequences

And you know that people die other ways than being bombed, right?

Now, put it all together.

And that’s the only thing you care about?

Americans still think they won in Vietnam

Kings are useless without pawns doing their bidding

Bombing other countries isn’t the only metric you should be using.

Large scale weapons tooling and manufacturer with the entire supply chains outside of the US.

Sorry to say, but it looks like the world is going to need to start gearing up for war.

But the brother will likely suspect that someone called the cops. And there’s a good chance he will suspect his family members. With a personality like OP describes, having proof of who filed the report isn’t likely relevant, he will “know” who filed it, and that will be good enough for him to act on. Hypothetically, anyway

Better IMO to just leave. Don’t even let yourself be put into that situation in the first place.

That’s an emotionally devastating environment apart from the real physical threats.

Very cool of you.

Get out now. It will be hard, but it’s better than dying and better than living in constant fear of violence.

Please take this seriously. Protect yourself

Even thought Trump very publicly supported the genocide in Palestine.

I’ve heard this sort of tactic described as “street epistemology”

China wouldn’t be on the side of the US. They would be backing the opposition

Right, kind of an enemy of my enemy sort of thing. I could definitely see the same thing happening with China in some hypothetical scenarios

“We will just let him take Venezuela, then he will be appeased.”

Are you saying the CCP has done nothing that violates international laws or threaten other countries sovereignty?

The US allied with the USSR to fight the Nazis. This wouldn’t be much different in my view

And if those people cared about truth and rationality, your examples would probably be effective.

Grifting and and inequality is a baked in part of capitalism. I don’t think you can get around it without fundamentally shifting your approach to money