If the US feels comfortable exterminating Iran over its continued defiance, it will feel further emboldened to threaten anyone who doesn't do what it wants, even over something as trivial as tariffs.
This is the terminal point of "madman theory" and guys like Hegseth and Trump who believe might makes right and they can simply rape, kill, steal, and destroy whatever and whomever.
It's the only real reason the US has the largest military on Earth.


