Yes, they can’t do it to usa, thus it’s not relevant, they can’t easily bribe their way out of trouble. It’s same as some american mafia trying to wield intimidation against japan, doesn’t work, no leverage, no fucks given.
If you are under some intimidation blood feud logic, you can’t even find out who gave the order to launch drone strike, and then your only response to kill some dea agents, which invites only more response. They’ll eat their losses and go underground, if they are interacting with the foreign state. The relevant part are civilians hurt by this, and some part of patriotic sentiment, those might do something
Well, hope langley have a large call center support for their assets. And cartels absolutely won’t retaliate, cmon.
Are you suggesting a bunch of people notorious for kidnapping, murder, and intimidation won’t do those things?
Yes, they can’t do it to usa, thus it’s not relevant, they can’t easily bribe their way out of trouble. It’s same as some american mafia trying to wield intimidation against japan, doesn’t work, no leverage, no fucks given.
If you are under some intimidation blood feud logic, you can’t even find out who gave the order to launch drone strike, and then your only response to kill some dea agents, which invites only more response. They’ll eat their losses and go underground, if they are interacting with the foreign state. The relevant part are civilians hurt by this, and some part of patriotic sentiment, those might do something
The problem with your analogy is that the American Mafia doesn’t have a extensive network of smugglers and violent criminals already embedded in Japan